Elevational gradients in phylogenetic structure of ant communities reveal the interplay of biotic and abiotic constraints on diversity

By Antonín Machac, Milan Janda, R. Dunn, N. Sanders. 2011

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Citations in the corpus

Phylogenetic clustering and overdispersion for alpine plants along elevational gradient in the Hengduan Mountains Region, southwest China (2014, methodology): “…phylogenetic frameworks have increasingly been applied to study biodiversity patterns in plants (Webb, 2000; Webb et al., 2006; Bryant et al., 2008; Kluge & Kessler, 2011) and animals (Graham et al., 2009; Auguet et al., 2010; Jones & Hallin, 2010; Machac et al., 2011; Wang et al., 2012).”
Global diversity in light of climate change: the case of ants (2011, background): “If climatic niches are more conserved in some lineages than in others (Machac et al., 2011), those lineages might more often fail to evolve the traits necessary to adapt to drastic climate changes than would species in lineages with more evolutionarily labile climatic niches (Wiens et al., 2006,…”
Inferring community assembly mechanisms from functional diversity patterns: the importance of multiple assembly processes (2012, background): “…the components associated with each trait (e.g., Weiher, Clarke & Keddy 1998; Cornwell, Schwilk & Ackerly 2006; Thompson et al. 2010) or only focus on phylogenetic diversity (e.g., Cadotte, Hamilton & Murray 2009; Machac et al. 2011) suffer from integrating multiple niches axes into one variable.”
Ants as indicators of environmental change and ecosystem processes (2017, background): “…et al. (2013), who found a similar pattern in the Swiss National Park, explained this finding with the filtering effect of the environment in which only species with traits adapted to harsh environmental conditions at high elevations can tolerate the habitat (also see, e.g., Machac et al., 2011).”