Global biogeographic patterns of avian morphological diversity.
avian biodiversity
community structure
morphological diversity
morphological traits
morphospace
niche expansion
niche packing
Journal
Ecology letters
ISSN: 1461-0248
Titre abrégé: Ecol Lett
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101121949
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Mar 2022
Mar 2022
Historique:
revised:
23
08
2021
received:
31
05
2021
accepted:
24
09
2021
entrez:
24
2
2022
pubmed:
25
2
2022
medline:
26
2
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Understanding the biogeographical patterns, and evolutionary and environmental drivers, underpinning morphological diversity are key for determining its origins and conservation. Using a comprehensive set of continuous morphological traits extracted from museum collections of 8353 bird species, including geometric morphometric beak shape data, we find that avian morphological diversity is unevenly distributed globally, even after controlling for species richness, with exceptionally dense packing of species in hyper-diverse tropical hotspots. At the regional level, these areas also have high morphological variance, with species exhibiting high phenotypic diversity. Evolutionary history likely plays a key role in shaping these patterns, with evolutionarily old species contributing to niche expansion, and young species contributing to niche packing. Taken together, these results imply that the tropics are both 'cradles' and 'museums' of phenotypic diversity.
Types de publication
Letter
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
598-610Subventions
Organisme : Natural Environment Research Council
ID : ACCE PhD Studentship
Organisme : Natural Environment Research Council
ID : NE/T01105X/1
Organisme : Royal Society
ID : UF120016
Organisme : Royal Society
ID : URF\R\180006
Organisme : FP7 Ideas: European Research Council
ID : 615709
Informations de copyright
© 2022 The Authors. Ecology Letters published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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