Data from: Seed predation increases from the Arctic to the Equator and from high to low elevations
Species interactions have long been predicted to increase in intensity toward the tropics and low elevations because of gradients in climate, productivity, or biodiversity. Despite their importance for understanding global ecological and evolutionary processes, plant-animal interaction gradients are...
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ftdryad:oai:v1.datadryad.org:10255/dryad.203017 2023-05-15T14:27:36+02:00 Data from: Seed predation increases from the Arctic to the Equator and from high to low elevations Hargreaves, Anna L. Suarez, Esteban Mehltreter, Klaus Myers-Smith, Isla Vanderplank, Sula E. Slinn, Heather L. Vargas-Rodriguez, Yalma L. Haeussler, Sybille David, Santiago Muñoz, Jenny Almazán-Núñez, R. Carlos Loughnan, Deirdre Benning, John W. Moeller, David A. Brodie, Jedediah F. Thomas, Haydn J.D. Morales M., Paula A. North America Central America South America Pacific cordillera Alaska to Ecuador present 2019-02-20T22:10:53Z http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.203017 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1723h44 unknown doi:10.5061/dryad.1723h44/1 doi:10.5061/dryad.1723h44/2 doi:10.1126/sciadv.aau4403 doi:10.5061/dryad.1723h44 Hargreaves AL, Suárez E, Mehltreter K, Myers-Smith I, Vanderplank SE, Slinn HL, Vargas-Rodriguez YL, Haeussler S, David S, Muñoz J, Carlos Almazán-Núñez R, Loughnan D, Benning JW, Moeller DA, Brodie JF, Thomas HJ, Morales M. PA (2019) Seed predation increases from the Arctic to the Equator and from high to low elevations. Science Advances 5(2): eaau4403. http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.203017 seed predation distributed experiment species interactions biotic interactions vertebrate exclusion latitudinal gradient elevation gradients Article 2019 ftdryad https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1723h44 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1723h44/1 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1723h44/2 https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aau4403 2020-01-01T16:21:31Z Species interactions have long been predicted to increase in intensity toward the tropics and low elevations because of gradients in climate, productivity, or biodiversity. Despite their importance for understanding global ecological and evolutionary processes, plant-animal interaction gradients are particularly difficult to test systematically across large geographic gradients, and evidence from smaller, disparate studies is inconclusive. By systematically measuring postdispersal seed predation using 6995 standardized seed depots along 18 mountains in the Pacific cordillera, we found that seed predation increases by 17% from the Arctic to the Equator and by 17% from 4000 meters above sea level to sea level. Clines in total predation, likely driven by invertebrates, were consistent across treeline ecotones and within continuous forest and were better explained by climate seasonality than by productivity, biodiversity, or latitude. These results suggest that species interactions play predictably greater ecological and evolutionary roles in tropical, lowland, and other less seasonal ecosystems. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Alaska Dryad Digital Repository (Duke University) Arctic Pacific |
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seed predation distributed experiment species interactions biotic interactions vertebrate exclusion latitudinal gradient elevation gradients Hargreaves, Anna L. Suarez, Esteban Mehltreter, Klaus Myers-Smith, Isla Vanderplank, Sula E. Slinn, Heather L. Vargas-Rodriguez, Yalma L. Haeussler, Sybille David, Santiago Muñoz, Jenny Almazán-Núñez, R. Carlos Loughnan, Deirdre Benning, John W. Moeller, David A. Brodie, Jedediah F. Thomas, Haydn J.D. Morales M., Paula A. Data from: Seed predation increases from the Arctic to the Equator and from high to low elevations |
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Species interactions have long been predicted to increase in intensity toward the tropics and low elevations because of gradients in climate, productivity, or biodiversity. Despite their importance for understanding global ecological and evolutionary processes, plant-animal interaction gradients are particularly difficult to test systematically across large geographic gradients, and evidence from smaller, disparate studies is inconclusive. By systematically measuring postdispersal seed predation using 6995 standardized seed depots along 18 mountains in the Pacific cordillera, we found that seed predation increases by 17% from the Arctic to the Equator and by 17% from 4000 meters above sea level to sea level. Clines in total predation, likely driven by invertebrates, were consistent across treeline ecotones and within continuous forest and were better explained by climate seasonality than by productivity, biodiversity, or latitude. These results suggest that species interactions play predictably greater ecological and evolutionary roles in tropical, lowland, and other less seasonal ecosystems. |
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Hargreaves, Anna L. Suarez, Esteban Mehltreter, Klaus Myers-Smith, Isla Vanderplank, Sula E. Slinn, Heather L. Vargas-Rodriguez, Yalma L. Haeussler, Sybille David, Santiago Muñoz, Jenny Almazán-Núñez, R. Carlos Loughnan, Deirdre Benning, John W. Moeller, David A. Brodie, Jedediah F. Thomas, Haydn J.D. Morales M., Paula A. |
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Hargreaves, Anna L. Suarez, Esteban Mehltreter, Klaus Myers-Smith, Isla Vanderplank, Sula E. Slinn, Heather L. Vargas-Rodriguez, Yalma L. Haeussler, Sybille David, Santiago Muñoz, Jenny Almazán-Núñez, R. Carlos Loughnan, Deirdre Benning, John W. Moeller, David A. Brodie, Jedediah F. Thomas, Haydn J.D. Morales M., Paula A. |
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Data from: Seed predation increases from the Arctic to the Equator and from high to low elevations |
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Data from: Seed predation increases from the Arctic to the Equator and from high to low elevations |
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Data from: Seed predation increases from the Arctic to the Equator and from high to low elevations |
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Data from: Seed predation increases from the Arctic to the Equator and from high to low elevations |
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data from: seed predation increases from the arctic to the equator and from high to low elevations |
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doi:10.5061/dryad.1723h44/1 doi:10.5061/dryad.1723h44/2 doi:10.1126/sciadv.aau4403 doi:10.5061/dryad.1723h44 Hargreaves AL, Suárez E, Mehltreter K, Myers-Smith I, Vanderplank SE, Slinn HL, Vargas-Rodriguez YL, Haeussler S, David S, Muñoz J, Carlos Almazán-Núñez R, Loughnan D, Benning JW, Moeller DA, Brodie JF, Thomas HJ, Morales M. PA (2019) Seed predation increases from the Arctic to the Equator and from high to low elevations. Science Advances 5(2): eaau4403. http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.203017 |
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