Broad-scale rather than fine-scale environmental variation drives body size in a wandering predator (Araneae, Lycosidae)
Body size is one of the most important individual traits, determining various other life-history traits, including fitness. Both evolutionary and ecological factors shape the body size in arthropods, but the relative contribution of abiotic drivers acting at different spatial scales has been little...
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ftdatacite:10.6084/m9.figshare.9451745.v1 2023-05-15T15:07:07+02:00 Broad-scale rather than fine-scale environmental variation drives body size in a wandering predator (Araneae, Lycosidae) Hein, Nils Pétillon, Julien Pape, Roland Feilhauer, Hannes Vanselow, Kim A. Löffler, Jörg 2019 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9451745.v1 https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/Broad-scale_rather_than_fine-scale_environmental_variation_drives_body_size_in_a_wandering_predator_Araneae_Lycosidae_/9451745/1 unknown Taylor & Francis https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2019.1640039 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9451745 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 CC-BY Biophysics Evolutionary Biology FOS Biological sciences 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified FOS Earth and related environmental sciences Ecology Sociology FOS Sociology 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified dataset Dataset 2019 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9451745.v1 https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2019.1640039 https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9451745 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Body size is one of the most important individual traits, determining various other life-history traits, including fitness. Both evolutionary and ecological factors shape the body size in arthropods, but the relative contribution of abiotic drivers acting at different spatial scales has been little investigated. We aimed to identify the importance of two broad-scale variables (study region and elevation) in shaping body size of the free-running and locally abundant wolf spider Pardosa palustris (Linnaeus 1758), in contrast to the fine-scaled variable topographic position. Therefore, we set up transects along environmental gradients in the arctic-alpine ecosystems of Norway, which we analyzed using a random forest approach to identify the relative importance of topographic position, elevation, and study region on body size of P. palustris . Our approach revealed that research region was the best explanatory variable, followed by elevation and topographic position. Differences in body size were most likely a consequence of the pronounced differences in season length and the ability of P. palustris to avoid local unfavorable environmental conditions due to its high mobility. Dataset Arctic DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Arctic Norway |
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Body size is one of the most important individual traits, determining various other life-history traits, including fitness. Both evolutionary and ecological factors shape the body size in arthropods, but the relative contribution of abiotic drivers acting at different spatial scales has been little investigated. We aimed to identify the importance of two broad-scale variables (study region and elevation) in shaping body size of the free-running and locally abundant wolf spider Pardosa palustris (Linnaeus 1758), in contrast to the fine-scaled variable topographic position. Therefore, we set up transects along environmental gradients in the arctic-alpine ecosystems of Norway, which we analyzed using a random forest approach to identify the relative importance of topographic position, elevation, and study region on body size of P. palustris . Our approach revealed that research region was the best explanatory variable, followed by elevation and topographic position. Differences in body size were most likely a consequence of the pronounced differences in season length and the ability of P. palustris to avoid local unfavorable environmental conditions due to its high mobility. |
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Broad-scale rather than fine-scale environmental variation drives body size in a wandering predator (Araneae, Lycosidae) |
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Broad-scale rather than fine-scale environmental variation drives body size in a wandering predator (Araneae, Lycosidae) |
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Broad-scale rather than fine-scale environmental variation drives body size in a wandering predator (Araneae, Lycosidae) |
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Broad-scale rather than fine-scale environmental variation drives body size in a wandering predator (Araneae, Lycosidae) |
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Broad-scale rather than fine-scale environmental variation drives body size in a wandering predator (Araneae, Lycosidae) |
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broad-scale rather than fine-scale environmental variation drives body size in a wandering predator (araneae, lycosidae) |
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