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How does phylogeny influence ecological patterns?
As species of the same genus have usually, though by no means invariably,
some similarity in habitats and constitution, and always in structure, the
struggle will generally be more severe between species of the same genus,
when they come into competition with each other, than between species of
distinct genera.
Charles Darwin(1959) The Origin of species by mean of natural selection. London.
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How does phylogeny influence ecological patterns?
Biotic interactions
Species
assemblage
rules
Niche
Biogeography
History
Community
structure
Life
histrory
traits
Phenology
Chance processes
Character evolution
Phylogenetic
constraints
Does evolutionary history influence today’s ecological patterns?
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Imact of evolutionary history
Impact of species interactions
Does evolutionary history influence ecological patterns at the local scale?
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Abundances
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Extinction risk
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Species co-occurrences
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Species composition
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biogeographic distribution
Species assembly and evolutionary history
Evolution
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Community assembly
with conserved adaptational traits
Community assembly
with competitive effects
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The model assumes that ecologically plasticity is at least to a certain amount limited
Phylogeny and local and regional abundances
Older (basal) lineage
Younger (derived)
lineages
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Abundance and clade (lineage) age
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Patterns of species co-occurrence
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Extinction risk and clade age
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Evolutionary speed and clade age
To study these patterns we
need well established
phylogenetic trees
Taxon species richness and local abundances
The case of Hymenoptera
Continental taxon species richness of
Hymenoptera is correlated to mean
local abundances
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Species rich hymenopteran taxa
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Does taxon size and phylogenetic history determine susceptability to extinction?
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In vascular plants frequencies of rare species seem to be correlated to taxon sizes.
Numbers of families and species scale allometrically to floral species richness
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Species richer sites contain
relatively less higher taxa.
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Species richer sites have
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ecologically similar species
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Today’s reading
Community assembly: www.cbs.umn.edu/cavender/Reading_List/Ackerly03IJPS_2003.pdf
Phylogeny and community ecology:
www.phylodiversity.net/donoghue/publications/MJD_papers/2002/121_Webb_AnnRevEcolSyst02.pdf