Data from: Trophic interactions and abiotic factors drive functional and phylogenetic structure of vertebrate herbivore communities across the Arctic tundra biome ...

Communities are assembled from species that evolve or colonise a given geographic region, and persist in the face of abiotic conditions and interactions with other species. The evolutionary and colonisation histories of communities are characterised by phylogenetic diversity, while functional divers...

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Main Authors: Speed, James D.M., Skjelbred, Ina A., Barrio, Isabel C., Martin, Michael D., Berteaux, Dominique, Bueno, C. Guillermo, Christie, Katie S., Forbes, Bruce C., Forbey, Jennifer, Fortin, Daniel, Grytnes, Jon-Arvid, Hoset, Katrine S., Lecomte, Nicolas, Marteinsdottir, Bryndis, Mosbacher, Jesper B., Pedersen, Åshild O., Ravolainen, Virve, Rees, Eileen C., Skarin, Anna, Sokolova, Natalya, Thornhill, Andrew H., Tombre, Ingunn, Soininen, Eeva M.
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: Dryad 2019
Subjects:
Community structure
Trophic interactions
Arctic
Tundra
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.4fc2591
https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.4fc2591
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Summary:Communities are assembled from species that evolve or colonise a given geographic region, and persist in the face of abiotic conditions and interactions with other species. The evolutionary and colonisation histories of communities are characterised by phylogenetic diversity, while functional diversity is indicative of abiotic and biotic conditions. The relationship between functional and phylogenetic diversity infers whether species functional traits are divergent (differing between related species) or convergent (similar among distantly related species). Biotic interactions and abiotic conditions are known to influence macroecological patterns in species richness, but how functional and phylogenetic diversity of guilds vary with biotic factors, and the relative importance of biotic drivers in relation to geographic and abiotic drivers is unknown. In this study, we test whether geographic, abiotic or biotic factors drive biome-scale spatial patterns of functional and phylogenetic diversity and functional ... : ArcticHerbivoresFunctionalandPhylogeneticDiversityIncludes: Genetic sequence alignments, Arctic vertebrate herbivore phylogeny, Arctic vertebrate herbivore functional trait data, Arctic vertebrate herbivore functional classification. Diversity data and environmental data.ArcticHerbivoresFDPD.zip ...

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