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No pervasive relationship between species size and local abundance trends

Although there is some evidence that larger species could be more prone to population declines, the potential role of size traits in determining changes in community composition has been underexplored in global-scale analyses. Here, we combine a large cross-taxon assemblage time series database (Bio...

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Autores principales: Terry, J. Christopher D., O’Sullivan, Jacob D., Rossberg, Axel G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8825279/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34969990
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01624-8
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description Although there is some evidence that larger species could be more prone to population declines, the potential role of size traits in determining changes in community composition has been underexplored in global-scale analyses. Here, we combine a large cross-taxon assemblage time series database (BioTIME) with multiple trait databases to show that there is no clear correlation within communities between size traits and changes in abundance over time, suggesting that there is no consistent tendency for larger species to be doing proportionally better or worse than smaller species at local scales.
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spelling pubmed-88252792022-02-18 No pervasive relationship between species size and local abundance trends Terry, J. Christopher D. O’Sullivan, Jacob D. Rossberg, Axel G. Nat Ecol Evol Brief Communication Although there is some evidence that larger species could be more prone to population declines, the potential role of size traits in determining changes in community composition has been underexplored in global-scale analyses. Here, we combine a large cross-taxon assemblage time series database (BioTIME) with multiple trait databases to show that there is no clear correlation within communities between size traits and changes in abundance over time, suggesting that there is no consistent tendency for larger species to be doing proportionally better or worse than smaller species at local scales. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-12-30 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8825279/ /pubmed/34969990 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01624-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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