Large range sizes link fast life histories with high species richness across wet tropical tree floras
Abstract
Abstract Understanding how the traits of lineages are related to diversification is key for elucidating the origin of variation in species richness. Here, we test whether traits are related to species richness among lineages of trees from all major biogeographical settings of the lowland wet tropics. We explore whether variation in mortality rate, breeding system and maximum diameter are related to species richness, either directly or via associations with range size, among 463 genera that contain wet tropical forest trees. For Amazonian genera, we also explore whether traits are related to species richness via variation among genera in mean species-level range size. Lineages with higher mortality rates—faster life-history strategies—have larger ranges in all biogeographic settings and have higher mean species-level range sizes in Amazonia. These lineages also have smaller maximum diameters and, in the Americas, contain dioecious species. In turn, lineages with greater overall range size have higher species richness. Our results show that fast life-history strategies influence species richness in all biogeographic settings because lineages with these ecological strategies have greater range sizes. These links suggest that dispersal has been a key process in the evolution of the tropical forest flora.
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Timothy R. Baker
Stephen Adu-Bredu
Kofi Affum-Baffoe
Shin-ichiro Aiba
Perpetra Akite
Miguel Alexiades
Everton Almeida
Edmar Almeida de Oliveira
Esteban Alvarez Davila
Christian Amani
Ana Andrade
Projeto Dinâmica Biológica de Fragmentos Florestais, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia
Luiz Aragao
Alejandro Araujo-Murakami
Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno
Eric Arets
Luzmila Arroyo
Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno
Peter Ashton
Suspense A. Averti Ifo
Gerardo A. C. Aymard
Michel Baisie
William Balee
Michael Balinga
Lindsay F. Banin
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Penicuik, Midlothian, UK.
Olaf Banki
Christopher Baraloto
Jorcely Barroso
Jean-Francois Bastin
Hans Beeckman
Serge Begne
Natacha Nssi Bengone
Nicholas Berry
Wemo Betian
Vincent Bezard
Lilian Blanc
Pascal Boeckx
Damien Bonal
Frans Bongers
Francis Q. Brearley
Roel Brienen
School of Geography, University of Leeds
Foster Brown
Musalmah Bt. Nasaradin
Benoit Burban
David F. R. P. Burslem
Plinio Camargo
José Luís Camargo
Projeto Dinâmica Biológica de Fragmentos Florestais, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia
Wendeson Castro
Carlos Cerón
Escuela de Biología Herbario Alfredo Paredes, Universidad Central
Victor Chama Moscoso
Colin Chapman
Jérôme Chave
Eric Chezeaux
Murray Collins
James Comiskey
David Coomes
Fernando Cornejo Valverde
Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program
Flavia R. C. Costa
Aida Cuni-Sanchez
Lola da Costa
Douglas C. Daly
Martin Dančák
Armandu Daniels
Greta Dargie
Stuart Davies
Charles De Canniere
Thales de Haulleville
Jhon del Aguila Pasquel
Géraldine Derroire
Kyle G. Dexter
Anthony Di Fiore
Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
Marie-Noel K. Djuikouo
Jean-Louis Doucet
Vincent Droissart
Gerald Eilu
Thaise Emillio
Julien Engel
Bocko Yannick Enock
Fidele Evouna Ondo
Corneille Ewango
Sophie Fauset
Ted R. Feldpausch
School of Geography, University of Leeds
Muhammad Fitriadi
Gerardo Flores Llampazo
Ernest G. Foli
Gabriella Fredriksson
David R. Galbraith
Martin Gilpin
Emanuel Gloor
Christelle Gonmadje
Rene Guillen Villaroel
Jefferson Hall
Keith C. Hamer
Alan Hamilton
Olivier Hardy
Terese Hart
Radim Hédl
Rafael Herrera
Niro Higuchi
Claude Marcel Hladik
Eurídice Honorio Coronado
Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco
Herbario HAG, Universidad Nacional Amazónica de Madre de Dios
Walter Huaraca Huasco
Wannes Hubau
Muhammad Idhamsyah
Sascha A. Ismail
Kath Jeffery
Eliana Jimenez
Tommaso Jucker
School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Elizabeth Kearsley
Lip Khoon Kho
Timothy Killeen
Kanehiro Kitayama
William Laurance
Susan Laurance
Miguel Leal
Simon L. Lewis
Stanislav Lhota
Jeremy Lindsell
Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez
Jon Lovett
Richard Lowe
William E. Magnusson
Jean-Remy Makana
Yadvinder Malhi
Beatriz Marimon
Ben Hur Marimon Junior
Andrew Marshall
Colin Maycock
Faustin Mbayu
Casimiro Mendoza
Escuela de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Mayor de San Simon
Irina Mendoza Polo
Faizah Metali
Vianet Mihindou
Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza
Sam Moore
Patrick Mucunguzi
Jacques Mukinzi
Pantaleo Munishi
László Nagy
Petrus Naisso
David Neill
Adriano Nogueira Lima
Percy Núñez Vargas
Herbario Vargas, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco
Lucas Ojo
Walter Palacios
Nadir Pallqui Camacho
Alexander Parada Gutierrez
Julie Peacock
Kelvin S.-H. Peh
Antonio Pena Cruz
Colin Pendry
Toby Pennington
Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter
Maria Cristina Penuela-Mora
Pascal Petronelli
Oliver L. Phillips
Georgia Pickavance
G. John Pipoly
Nigel Pitman
Axel Dalberg Poulsen
Ghillean T. Prance
Adriana Prieto
Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Richard B. Primack
Lan Qie
Simon A. Queenborough
Carlos Quesada
Freddy Ramirez Arevalo
Facultad de Biologia, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana
Hirma Ramirez-Angulo
Jan Reitsma
Maxime Réjou-Méchain
Anand Roopsind
Francesco Rovero
Ervan Rutishauser
Kamariah Abu Salim
Rafael Salomao
Ismayadi Samsoedin
Muhd Shahruney Saparudin
Juliana Schietti
Ricardo A. Segovia
Julio Serrano
Rafizah Serudia
Douglas Sheil
Natalino Silva
Instituto de Ciência Agrárias, Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia
Javier Silva Espejo
Marcos Silveira
Murielle Simo-Droissart
James Singh
Bonaventure Sonké
Thaise Emilio Lopes De Sousa
Juliana Stropp
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
Rahayu Sukri
Terry Sunderland
Martin Svátek
Michael Swaine
Hermann Taedoumg
Joey Talbot
Sylvester Tan
James Taplin
David Taylor
Hans ter Steege
John Terborgh
Department of Biology and Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida
Armando Torres-Lezama
John Tshibamba Mukendi
Darlington Tuagben
Peter van de Meer
Geertje van der Heijden
Peter van der Hout
Mark van Nieuwstadt
Bert van Ulft
Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez
Ronald Vernimmen
Barbara Vinceti
Simone Vieira
Ima Celia Guimaries Vieira
Emilio Vilanova Torre
Jason Vleminckx
Lee White
Simon Willcock
Mathew Williams
John T. Woods
Tze Leong Yao
Ishak Yassir
Roderick Zagt
Lise Zemagho