Disturbed habitats locally reduce the signal of deep evolutionary history in functional traits of plants
KÜHN, Ingolf
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung = Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research [UFZ]
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung = Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research [UFZ]
PURSCHKE, Oliver
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research [iDiv]
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
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German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research [iDiv]
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
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en
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New Phytologist. 2021-11, vol. 232, n° 4, p. 1849-1862
Wiley
Résumé en anglais
The functioning of present ecosystems reflects deep evolutionary history of locally co-occurring species if their functional traits show high phylogenetic signal (PS). However, we do not understand what drives local PS. ...Lire la suite >
The functioning of present ecosystems reflects deep evolutionary history of locally co-occurring species if their functional traits show high phylogenetic signal (PS). However, we do not understand what drives local PS. We hypothesize that local PS is high in undisturbed and stressful habitats - either due to ongoing local assembly of species that maintained ancestral traits, or past evolutionary maintenance of ancestral traits within habitat species-pools, or both. We quantified PS and diversity of 10 traits within 6704 local plant communities across 38 Dutch habitat types differing in disturbance or stress. Mean local PS varied 50-fold among habitat types, often independently of phylogenetic or trait diversity. Mean local PS decreased with disturbance but showed no consistent relationship to stress. Mean local PS exceeded species-pool PS, reflecting non-random subsampling from the pool. Disturbance or stress related more strongly to mean local than to species-pool PS. Disturbed habitats harbour species with evolutionary divergent trait values, likely driven by ongoing, local assembly of species: environmental fluctuations might maintain different trait values within lineages through an evolutionary storage effect. If functional traits do not reflect phylogeny, ecosystem functioning might not be contingent on the presence of particular lineages, and lineages might establish evolutionarily novel interactions.< Réduire
Mots clés en anglais
Community assembly
disturbance and stress
functional diversity
niche conservatism
phylogenetic diversity
phylogenetic signal
species pool
trait evolution
Projet Européen
Ecophysiological and biophysical constraints on domestication in crop plants
Project ANR
Sorbonne Universités à Paris pour l'Enseignement et la Recherche
Biological and Cultural Diversities : Origins, Evolution, Interactions, Future - ANR-10-LABX-0003
Biological and Cultural Diversities : Origins, Evolution, Interactions, Future - ANR-10-LABX-0003
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