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DrWillPearse

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences (Silwood Park)

Reader in Evolutionary Ecology
 
 
 
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1.5Centre for Population BiologySilwood Park

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@article{Stachewicz:2021:10.1101/2021.02.12.431029,
author = {Stachewicz, JD and Fountain-Jones, NM and Koontz, A and Woolf, H and Pearse, WD and Gallinat, AS},
doi = {10.1101/2021.02.12.431029},
title = {Strong trait correlation and phylogenetic signal in North American ground beetle (Carabidae) morphology},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.12.431029},
year = {2021}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Functional traits mediate species’ responses to and roles within their environment, and are constrained by evolutionary history. While we have a strong understanding of trait evolution for macro-taxa such as birds and mammals, our understanding of invertebrates is comparatively limited. Here we address this gap in North American beetles with a sample of ground beetles (Carabidae), leveraging a large-scale collection and digitization effort by the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). For 154 ground beetle species, we measured seven morphological traits, which we placed into a recently-developed effect-response framework that characterizes traits by how they predict species’ effects on their ecosystems or responses to environmental stressors. We then used cytochrome oxidase one sequences from the same specimens to generate a phylogeny and tested evolutionary tempo and mode of the traits. We found strong phylogenetic signal in, and correlations among, morphological ground beetle traits. These results indicate that, for these species, beetle body shape trait evolution is constrained, and phylogenetic inertia is a stronger driver of beetle traits than (recent) environmental responses. Strong correlations among effect and response traits suggest that future environmental drivers are likely to affect both ecological composition and functioning in these beetles.</jats:p>
AU  - Stachewicz,JD
AU  - Fountain-Jones,NM
AU  - Koontz,A
AU  - Woolf,H
AU  - Pearse,WD
AU  - Gallinat,AS
DO  - 10.1101/2021.02.12.431029
PY  - 2021///
TI  - Strong trait correlation and phylogenetic signal in North American ground beetle (Carabidae) morphology
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.12.431029
ER  -
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