Pre‐adaptation and adaptation shape trait‐environment matching in the Neotropics

• Published in: Global ecology and biogeography Vol. 32; no. 10; pp. 1760 - 1772
• Main Authors: Velásquez‐Puentes, Francisco J., Torke, Benjamin M., Barratt, Christopher D., Dexter, Kyle G., Pennington, Toby, Pezzini, Flávia Fonseca, Zizka, Alexander, Onstein, Renske E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.10.2023
• Subjects: Adaptation; Amazonia; biogeography; Biological evolution; Cenozoic; Cenozoic era; climate; Climatic data; Deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA; Environmental changes; Evolution; Fabaceae; fruit size; Fruits; Gene sequencing; Geographical distribution; herbaria; Legumes; Low temperature; Low temperature environments; Macroevolution; meteorological data; Neotropics; Nucleotide sequence; Papilionoidea; Petals; Phylogenetics; Phylogeny; rain; rain forests; Rainfall; Rainforests; regression analysis; soil; Soil characteristics; Soil temperature; Soils; Swartzia; Taxa; temperature; Amazonia

AimFunctional traits shape the distribution of taxa across environments. However, it remains unclear whether trait and environmental niche evolution are correlated, and what happened first: trait change facilitating environment shifts (pre‐adaptation) or environmental change leading to trait change...