Supplementary material from "Trait evolution, resource specialization and vulnerability to plant extinctions among Antillean hummingbirds"
Posted on 2018-03-07 - 09:03
Species traits are thought to predict feeding specialization and the vulnerability of a species to extinctions of interaction partners, but the context in which a species evolved and currently inhabits may also matter. Notably, the predictive power of traits may require that traits evolved to fit interaction partners. Furthermore, local abiotic and biotic conditions may be important. On islands, for instance, specialized and vulnerable species are predicted to be found mainly in mountains, whereas species in lowlands should be generalized and less vulnerable. We evaluated these predictions for hummingbirds and their nectar-food plants on Antillean islands. Our results suggest that the rates of hummingbird trait divergence were higher among ancestral mainland forms before the colonization of the Antilles. In correspondence with the limited trait evolution that occurred within the Antilles, local abiotic and biotic conditions—not species traits—correlate with hummingbird resource specialization and the vulnerability of hummingbirds to extinctions of their floral resources. Specifically, hummingbirds were more specialized and vulnerable in conditions with high topographical complexity, high rainfall, low temperatures and high floral resource richness, which characterize the Antillean Mountains. These findings show that resource specialization and species vulnerability to extinctions of interaction partners are highly context-dependent.
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Dalsgaard, Bo; Kennedy, Jonathan; Simmons, Benno I.; Baquero, Andrea C.; M. Martín González, Ana; Timmermann, Allan; et al. (2018). Supplementary material from "Trait evolution, resource specialization and vulnerability to plant extinctions among Antillean hummingbirds". The Royal Society. Collection. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4024510.v1
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AUTHORS (11)
BD
Bo Dalsgaard
JK
Jonathan Kennedy
BS
Benno I. Simmons
AB
Andrea C. Baquero
AM
Ana M. Martín González
AT
Allan Timmermann
PM
Pietro K. Maruyama
JA
Jimmy A. McGuire
JO
Jeff Ollerton
WJ
William J. Sutherland
CR
Carsten Rahbek