Direct and plant‐mediated effects of climate on bird diversity in tropical mountains
Ecology and Evolution2020Vol. 10(24), pp. 14196–14208
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Maximilian G. R. Vollstädt, Jörg Albrecht, Katrin Böhning‐Gaese, Andreas Hemp, Kim M. Howell, Laura Kettering, Alexander Neu, Eike Lena Neuschulz, Marta Quitián, Vinicio Santillán, Till Töpfer, Matthias Schleuning, Susanne A. Fritz
Abstract
Our results illustrate the general importance of bottom-up mechanisms for the taxonomic diversity of consumers, suggesting the importance of active resource tracking. Our results also suggest that it might be difficult to identify signals of ecological fitting between functional plant and animal traits across biogeographic regions, since different species groups may respond to different climatic drivers. This decoupling between resource and consumer communities could increase under future climate change if plant and animal communities are consistently related to distinct climatic drivers.
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