10.5061/DRYAD.MF886
Fountain-Jones, Nicholas M.
University of Tasmania
University of Minnesota
Jordan, Gregory J.
University of Tasmania
Burridge, Christopher
University of Tasmania
Wardlaw, Timothy J.
University of Tasmania
Baker, Thomas P.
University of Tasmania
Forster, Lynette
University of Tasmania
Petersfeld, Morgana
University of Tasmania
Baker, Susan C.
University of Tasmania
Burridge, Christopher P.
University of Tasmania
Petersfield, Morgana
University of Tasmania
Data from: Trophic position determines functional and phylogenetic
recovery after disturbance within a community
Dryad
dataset
2018
Community colour
Beetles
Holocene
phylogenetic niche conservatism
2018-01-13T00:00:00Z
2018-01-13T00:00:00Z
en
https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12845
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1. The roles that functional traits and/or evolutionary history of species
from co-occuring trophic groups have in determining community recovery
following disturbance are poorly understood. Functional traits help
determine how species interact with their environment, thus functional
traits are likely to change with time since logging. However, traits of
species may also be phylogenetically constrained depending on their
evolutionary history. Because beetles are trophically diverse, the effects
of phylogenetic and functional aspects of community recovery can be
compared between co-occuring trophic groups. 2. Using a chronosequence of
forest ages following logging, we applied a novel combination of
functional trait and phylogenetic approaches to assess the extent to which
taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic composition recovered after
logging, and if these dimensions of composition approached those
characteristic of mature forests, for both predators and
decomposers/primary consumers. We also examined to what extent functional
traits of both trophic groups were phylogenetically conserved. 3. Predator
functional compostion had recovered ~45 years after logging, and this
recovery preceded taxonomic recovery. Neither taxonomic nor functional
composition had recovered for the decomposer/primary consumer communites
by this time. 4. In contrast to decomposers/primary consumers, predator
community recovery had no distinct phylogenetic signature, yet predator
functional traits were more phylogenetically conserved than
decomposers/primary consumer functional traits. 5. Trait syndromes that
characterise forest recovery stages are identified and provide a basis for
future work on community re-assembly following disturbance. 6. We
demonstrate differential recovery of co-occuring beetle trophic groups
following disturbance. We show that functional and phylogenetic
composition may be disconnected from taxonomic composition; highlighting
the advantages of integrating understanding of these three potentially
independent components of ecological diversity to enable deeper
understanding of animal community composition.
Species abundance data for predators and decomposers/primary
consumersSpecies abundance data for both predators (first tab, 60 species)
and decomposers/primary consumers (second tab, 73 species). Site
information (time since logging) is located in the last column for each
data set. See Appendix S2E for corresponding trait data and for
phylogenetic relationships.Fountain-Jones et al 2017 Species abundance
data.xlsx
Tasmania