Biological traits, phylogeny and human footprint signatures on the geographical range size of passerines (Order Passeriformes ) worldwide

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Á. Olalla‐Tárraga ◽  
Talita Ferreira Amado ◽  
Luis Mauricio Bini ◽  
Pablo A. Martínez ◽  
Ignacio Morales‐Castilla ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Range Size ◽  
Geographical Range ◽  
Biological Traits ◽  
Human Footprint ◽  
Order Passeriformes

Osmoregulatory ability predicts geographical range size in marine amniotes

2021 ◽  
Vol 288 (1948) ◽  
Author(s):  
François Brischoux ◽  
Harvey B. Lillywhite ◽  
Richard Shine ◽  
David Pinaud
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Range Size ◽  
Geographical Range ◽  
Physiological Data ◽  
Potential Range ◽  
Marine Habitats ◽  
Species Vulnerability ◽  
Ideal System ◽  
Physiological Tolerances ◽  
Osmoregulatory Ability

Species that are distributed over wide geographical ranges are likely to encounter a greater diversity of environmental conditions than do narrowly distributed taxa, and thus we expect a correlation between size of geographical range and breadth of physiological tolerances to abiotic challenges. That correlation could arise either because higher physiological capacity enables range expansion, or because widely distributed taxa experience more intense (but spatially variable) selection on physiological tolerances. The invasion of oceanic habitats by amniotic vertebrates provides an ideal system with which to test the predicted correlation between range size and physiological tolerances, because all three lineages that have secondarily moved into marine habitats (mammals, birds, reptiles) exhibit morphological and physiological adaptations to excrete excess salt. Our analyses of data on 62 species (19 mammals, 18 birds, 24 reptiles) confirm that more-widely distributed taxa encounter habitats with a wider range of salinities, and that they have higher osmoregulatory ability as determined by sodium concentrations in fluids expelled from salt-excreting organs. This result remains highly significant even in models that incorporate additional explanatory variables such as metabolic mode, body size and dietary habits. Physiological data thus may help to predict potential range size and perhaps a species' vulnerability to anthropogenic disturbance.

scholarly journals Brood parasitism in eusocial insects (Hymenoptera): role of host geographical range size and phylogeny

2019 ◽  
Vol 374 (1769) ◽  
pp. 20180203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jukka Suhonen ◽  
Jaakko J. Ilvonen ◽  
Tommi Nyman ◽  
Jouni Sorvari
Keyword(s):  
Brood Parasitism ◽  
Range Size ◽  
Geographical Range ◽  
Social Parasite ◽  
Brood Parasite ◽  
Social Parasites ◽  
Brood Parasites ◽  
Eusocial Insects ◽  
Interspecific Brood Parasitism ◽  
Logistic Regressions

Interspecific brood parasitism is common in many animal systems. Brood parasites enter the nests of other species and divert host resources for producing their own offspring, which can lead to strong antagonistic parasite–host coevolution. Here, we look at commonalities among social insect species that are victims of brood parasites, and use phylogenetic data and information on geographical range size to predict which species are most probably to fall victims to brood parasites in the future. In our analyses, we focus on three eusocial hymenopteran groups and their brood parasites: (i) bumblebees, (ii) Myrmica ants, and (iii) vespine and polistine wasps. In these groups, some, but not all, species are parasitized by obligate workerless inquilines that only produce reproductive-caste descendants. We find phylogenetic signals for geographical range size and the presence of parasites in bumblebees, but not in ants and wasps. Phylogenetic logistic regressions indicate that the probability of being attacked by one or more brood parasite species increases with the size of the geographical range in bumblebees, but the effect is statistically only marginally significant in ants. However, non-phylogenetic logistic regressions suggest that bumblebee species with the largest geographical range sizes may have a lower likelihood of harbouring social parasites than do hosts with medium-sized ranges. Our results provide new insights into the ecology and evolution of host–social parasite systems, and indicate that host phylogeny and geographical range size can be used to predict threats posed by social parasites, as well to design efficient conservation measures for both hosts and their parasites. This article is part of the theme issue ‘The coevolutionary biology of brood parasitism: from mechanism to pattern’.

Human pressures predict species’ geographic range size better than biological traits

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 2169-2178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moreno Di Marco ◽  
Luca Santini
Keyword(s):  
Geographic Range ◽  
Range Size ◽  
Biological Traits ◽  
Geographic Range Size ◽  
Better Than

Biotic influences on species duration: interactions between traits in marine molluscs

Paleobiology ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
James S. Crampton ◽  
Roger A. Cooper ◽  
Alan G. Beu ◽  
Michael Foote ◽  
Bruce A. Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Large Range ◽  
Geographic Range ◽  
Range Size ◽  
Biological Traits ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Marine Molluscs ◽  
Larval Type ◽  
Feeding Type ◽  
Life Mode

We analyze relationships among a range of ecological and biological traits—geographic range size, body size, life mode, larval type, and feeding type—in order to identify those traits that are associated significantly with species duration in New Zealand Cenozoic marine molluscs, during a time of background extinction. Using log-linear modeling, we find that bivalves have only a small number of simple, two-way associations between the studied traits and duration. In contrast, gastropods display more complex interactions involving three-way associations between traits, a pattern that suggests greater macroecological complexity of gastropods. This is not an artifact caused by the larger number of gastropods than bivalves in our data set. We used stratified randomized resampling of families to test for associations between traits that might result from shared inheritance rather than ecological trait interactions; we found no evidence of phylogenetic effects in any associations examined. The relationships revealed by our study should serve to constrain the range of possible biological mechanisms that underlie these relationships. As previously observed, two-way associations are present between large geographic range and increased duration, and between large geographic range and large body size, in both bivalves and gastropods. In gastropods, planktotrophic larval type is associated with large range size through a three-way interaction that also involves duration; there is no direct association of larval type and geographic range. Gastropods also display two-way associations between duration and life mode, and duration and feeding type. We note that in gastropods, an infaunal life mode is associated with large range size, whereas in bivalves infaunality is associated with reduced range size.

scholarly journals High predictability in introduction outcomes and the geographical range size of introduced Australian birds: a role for climate

2001 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 621-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard P. Duncan ◽  
Mary Bomford ◽  
David M. Forsyth ◽  
Louise Conibear
Keyword(s):  
Range Size ◽  
Geographical Range ◽  
Australian Birds ◽  
High Predictability

scholarly journals New macroecological insights into functional constraints on mammalian geographical range size

2013 ◽  
Vol 280 (1758) ◽  
pp. 20130140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvatore J. Agosta ◽  
Joseph Bernardo
Keyword(s):  
Range Size ◽  
Geographical Range ◽  
Functional Constraints

scholarly journals Predicting invasiveness and range size in wetland plants using biological traits: a multivariate experimental approach

2012 ◽  
Vol 100 (6) ◽  
pp. 1373-1382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Hovick ◽  
Chris J. Peterson ◽  
Walter P. Carson
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Approach ◽  
Wetland Plants ◽  
Range Size ◽  
Biological Traits
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