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Climate influences the response of community functional traits to local conditions in bromeliad invertebrate communities

Laura Melissa Guzman 1 M. Kurtis Trzcinski 1 Ignacio Barberis 2 Régis Céréghino 3 Diane Srivastava 1 Benjamin Gilbert 4 Valério Pillar 5 Paula de Omena 6 Andrew Macdonald 3 Bruno Corbara 7 Celine Leroy 8, 9 Fabiola Ospina Bautista Gustavo Romero Pavel Kratina Vanderlei Debastiani Ana Gonįalves Nicholas Marino 10 Vinicius Farjalla 10 Barbara Richardson 11 Michael Richardson 12 Olivier Dézerald 12 Gustavo Piccoli Merlijn Jocqué 13 Guillermo Montero 2
1 UBC - University of British Columbia
2 Universidad Nacional de Rosario [Santa Fe]
3 ECOLAB - Laboratoire Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement
4 University of Toronto
5 UFRGS - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul [Porto Alegre]
6 UNICAMP - University of Campinas [Campinas]
7 LMGE - Laboratoire Microorganismes : Génome et Environnement
8 UMR AMAP - Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations
9 UMR ECOFOG - Ecologie des forêts de Guyane
10 UNIRIO - Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
11 ESE - Ecologie Systématique et Evolution
12 ESE - Écologie et santé des écosystèmes
13 RBINS - Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Abstract : Functional traits determine an organism's performance in a given environment and as such determine which organisms will be found where. Species respond to local conditions, but also to larger scale gradients, such as climate. Trait ecology links these responses of species to community composition and species distributions. Yet, we often do not know which environmental gradients are most important in determining community trait composition at either local or biogeographical scales, or their interaction. Here we quantify the relative contribution of local and climatic conditions to the structure and composition of functional traits found within bromeliad invertebrate communities. We conclude that climate explains more variation in invertebrate trait composition within bromeliads than does local conditions. Importantly, climate mediated the response of traits to local conditions; for example, invertebrates with benthic life-history traits increased with bromeliad water volume only under certain precipitation regimes. Our ability to detect this and other patterns hinged on the compilation of multiple fine-grained datasets, allowing us to contrast the effect of climate versus local conditions. We suggest that, in addition to sampling communities at local scales, we need to aggregate studies that span large ranges in climate variation in order to fully understand trait filtering at local, regional and global scales.
Keywords : Functional traits Local conditions Climatic variation Bromeliads Macroinvertebrates
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Laura Melissa Guzman, M. Kurtis Trzcinski, Ignacio Barberis, Régis Céréghino, Diane Srivastava, et al.. Climate influences the response of community functional traits to local conditions in bromeliad invertebrate communities. Ecography, Wiley, 2021, 44 (3), pp.440-452. ⟨10.1111/ecog.05437⟩. ⟨hal-03103974⟩

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