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

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Guzman, Laura Melissa ^{[1, 2, 3]} ; Trzcinski, M. Kurtis ^[4] ; Barberis, Ignacio M. ^[5] ; Cereghino, Regis ^[6] ; Srivastava, Diane S. ^{[1, 2]} ; Gilbert, Benjamin ^[7] ; Pillar, Valerio D. ^{[8, 9]} ; de Omena, Paula M. ^[10] ; MacDonald, A. Andrew M. ^{[6, 11]} ; Corbara, Bruno ^[12] ; Leroy, Celine ^{[13, 14]} ; Ospina Bautista, Fabiola ^{[15, 16]} ; Romero, Gustavo Q. ^[17] ; Kratina, Pavel ^[18] ; Debastiani, Vanderlei J. ^{[8, 9]} ; Gonialves, Ana Z. ^[19] ; Marino, Nicholas A. C. ^[20] ; Farjalla, Vinicius F. ^[21] ; Richardson, Barbara A. ^[22] ; Richardson, Michael J. ^[22] ; Dezerald, Olivier ^[23] ; Piccoli, Gustavo C. O. ^[24] ; Jocque, Merlijn ^[25] ; Montero, Guillermo ^[5]

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^[1] Univ British Columbia, Dept Zool, Vancouver, BC - Canada

^[2] Univ British Columbia, Biodivers Res Ctr, Vancouver, BC - Canada

^[3] Simon Fraser Univ, Dept Biol, Vancouver, BC - Canada

^[4] Univ British Columbia, Dept Forest & Conservat Sci, Vancouver, BC - Canada

^[5] Univ Nacl Rosario, Consejo Nacl Invest Cient & Tecn, Inst Invest Ciencias Agr Rosario, Fac Ciencias Agr, Zavalla - Argentina

^[6] Univ Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, Univ Toulouse, CNRS, Lab Ecol Fonct & Environm, Toulouse - France

^[7] Univ Toronto, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Toronto, ON - Canada

^[8] Univ Fed Rio Grande do Sul, Dept Ecol, Porto Alegre, RS - Brazil

^[9] Univ Fed Rio Grande do Sul, Grad Program Ecol, Porto Alegre, RS - Brazil

^[10] Univ Fed Para, Inst Biol Sci, Belem, PA - Brazil

^[11] Ctr Synth & Anal Biodivers CESAB FRB, Montpellier - France

^[12] Univ Clermont, Lab Microorganismes Genome & Environm, Aubiere - France

^[13] Univ Montpellier, CNRS, AMAP, CIRAD, INRA, IRD, Montpellier - France

^[14] ECOFOG, Campus Agronomique, Kourou - France

^[15] Univ Andes, Depto Ciencias Biol, Bogota - Colombia

^[16] Univ Caldas, Dept Ciencias Biol, Manizales - Colombia

^[17] Univ Estadual Campinas, Inst Biol, Dept Anim Biol, Lab Multitroph Interact & Biodivers, Campinas, SP - Brazil

^[18] Queen Mary Univ London, Sch Biol & Chem Sci, London - England

^[19] Univ Sao Paulo, Dept Bot, Biosci Inst, Sao Paulo - Brazil

^[20] Univ Fed Rio De Janeiro, Programa Posgrad Ecol, Rio De Janeiro, RJ - Brazil

^[21] Univ Fed Rio De Janeiro, Inst Biol, Dept Ecol, Rio De Janeiro, RJ - Brazil

^[22] Univ Puerto Rico, Inst Trop Ecosyst Studies, Luquillo LTER, Rio Piedras, PR - USA

^[23] Agrocampus Oues, INRA, Ecol & Ecosyst Hlth, UMR ESE, Rennes - France

^[24] Univ Sao Paulo, Dept Zool & Bot, Sao Jose Do Rio Preto, SP - Brazil

^[25] Royal Belgian Inst Nat Sci, Aquat & Terr Ecol, Brussels - Belgium

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: ECOGRAPHY; v. 44, n. 3, p. 440-452, MAR 2021.
• Web of Science Citations: 1

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. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 14/04603-4 - Global warming effects on the trophic structure and ecosystem functioning in tank-bromeliads
• Grantee: Pablo Augusto Poleto Antiqueira
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• FAPESP's process: 16/01209-9 - Effects of climate change on the structure of food webs in latitudinal gradients
• Grantee: Gustavo Quevedo Romero
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• FAPESP's process: 16/09699-5 - Nitrogen metabolism and its interaction with the Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) in Guzmania monostachia (Bromeliaceae): a physiological and molecular approach
• Grantee: Ana Zangirólame Gonçalves
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral