Untangling the influence of ecological and evolutionary factors on trait variation across hummingbird assemblages

By Catherine H. Graham, J. L. Parra, B. Tinoco, F. Stiles, JIMMY A. Mcguire. 2012

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Phylogenetic patterns are not proxies of community assembly mechanisms (they are far better) (2015, background): “…using community phylogenies, the underlying assumption remained implicitly static: that strong interactions operate for sufficiently long time to lead to species exclusion and hence influence the patterns of phylogenetic diversity (e.g. Letcher 2010; Graham et al. 2012; Purschke et al. 2013).”
Phylogenetic trees do not reliably predict feature diversity (2014, background): “, 2012) in which distant relatives are assumed to have dissimilar phenotypes, theorists of community phylogenetics (Webb, 2000; Losos, 2008) have been at pains to point out that relative proximity on a phylogeny need not imply relative similarity in phenotype and that different implications must be ”
Imputation of missing data in life‐history trait datasets: which approach performs the best? (2014, methodology): “Trait-based analyses are widely used to address ecological and evolutionary processes from local to global scales (Lavorel & Garnier 2002; Graham et al. 2012; Huang, Stephens & Gittleman 2012).”
Functional structure and specialization in three tropical plant-hummingbird interaction networks across an elevational gradient in Costa Rica (2015, background): “We measured functional traits of hummingbird species that have been reported to affect their interactions with plant species, such as bill length and curvature (Hainsworth and Wolf 1972, Temeles et al. 2010), as well as body mass (Dalsgaard et al. 2008, 2009) and wing length (Stiles 2004).”