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Alpha and beta phylogenetic diversities jointly reveal ant community assembly mechanisms along a tropical elevational gradient
Despite the long-standing interest in the organization of ant communities across elevational gradients, few studies have incorporated the evolutionary information to understand the historical processes that underlay such patterns. Through the evaluation of phylogenetic α and β-diversity, we analyzed...
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author | Pérez-Toledo, Gibran Renoy Villalobos, Fabricio Silva, Rogerio R. Moreno, Claudia E. Pie, Marcio R. Valenzuela-González, Jorge E. |
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description | Despite the long-standing interest in the organization of ant communities across elevational gradients, few studies have incorporated the evolutionary information to understand the historical processes that underlay such patterns. Through the evaluation of phylogenetic α and β-diversity, we analyzed the structure of leaf-litter ant communities along the Cofre de Perote mountain in Mexico and evaluated whether deterministic- (i.e., habitat filtering, interspecific competition) or stochastic-driven processes (i.e., dispersal limitation) were driving the observed patterns. Lowland and some highland sites showed phylogenetic clustering, whereas intermediate elevations and the highest site presented phylogenetic overdispersion. We infer that strong environmental constraints found at the bottom and the top elevations are favoring closely-related species to prevail at those elevations. Conversely, less stressful climatic conditions at intermediate elevations suggest interspecific interactions are more important in these environments. Total phylogenetic dissimilarity was driven by the turnover component, indicating that the turnover of ant species along the mountain is actually shifts of lineages adapted to particular locations resembling their ancestral niche. The greater phylogenetic dissimilarity between communities was related to greater temperature differences probably due to narrow thermal tolerances inherent to several ant lineages that evolved in more stable conditions. Our results suggest that the interplay between environmental filtering, interspecific competition and habitat specialization plays an important role in the assembly of leaf-litter ant communities along elevational gradients. |
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spelling | pubmed-90955952022-05-13 Alpha and beta phylogenetic diversities jointly reveal ant community assembly mechanisms along a tropical elevational gradient Pérez-Toledo, Gibran Renoy Villalobos, Fabricio Silva, Rogerio R. Moreno, Claudia E. Pie, Marcio R. Valenzuela-González, Jorge E. Sci Rep Article Despite the long-standing interest in the organization of ant communities across elevational gradients, few studies have incorporated the evolutionary information to understand the historical processes that underlay such patterns. Through the evaluation of phylogenetic α and β-diversity, we analyzed the structure of leaf-litter ant communities along the Cofre de Perote mountain in Mexico and evaluated whether deterministic- (i.e., habitat filtering, interspecific competition) or stochastic-driven processes (i.e., dispersal limitation) were driving the observed patterns. Lowland and some highland sites showed phylogenetic clustering, whereas intermediate elevations and the highest site presented phylogenetic overdispersion. We infer that strong environmental constraints found at the bottom and the top elevations are favoring closely-related species to prevail at those elevations. Conversely, less stressful climatic conditions at intermediate elevations suggest interspecific interactions are more important in these environments. Total phylogenetic dissimilarity was driven by the turnover component, indicating that the turnover of ant species along the mountain is actually shifts of lineages adapted to particular locations resembling their ancestral niche. The greater phylogenetic dissimilarity between communities was related to greater temperature differences probably due to narrow thermal tolerances inherent to several ant lineages that evolved in more stable conditions. Our results suggest that the interplay between environmental filtering, interspecific competition and habitat specialization plays an important role in the assembly of leaf-litter ant communities along elevational gradients. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9095595/ /pubmed/35546343 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11739-y 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 licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence 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 licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Pérez-Toledo, Gibran Renoy Villalobos, Fabricio Silva, Rogerio R. Moreno, Claudia E. Pie, Marcio R. Valenzuela-González, Jorge E. Alpha and beta phylogenetic diversities jointly reveal ant community assembly mechanisms along a tropical elevational gradient |
title | Alpha and beta phylogenetic diversities jointly reveal ant community assembly mechanisms along a tropical elevational gradient |
title_full | Alpha and beta phylogenetic diversities jointly reveal ant community assembly mechanisms along a tropical elevational gradient |
title_fullStr | Alpha and beta phylogenetic diversities jointly reveal ant community assembly mechanisms along a tropical elevational gradient |
title_full_unstemmed | Alpha and beta phylogenetic diversities jointly reveal ant community assembly mechanisms along a tropical elevational gradient |
title_short | Alpha and beta phylogenetic diversities jointly reveal ant community assembly mechanisms along a tropical elevational gradient |
title_sort | alpha and beta phylogenetic diversities jointly reveal ant community assembly mechanisms along a tropical elevational gradient |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9095595/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35546343 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11739-y |
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