Habitat filtering influences the phylogenetic structure of avian communities across a coastal gradient in southern Brazil

• Published in: Austral ecology Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 29 - 38
• Main Authors: Gianuca, Andros Tarouco, Dias, Rafael Antunes, Debastiani, Vanderlei Júlio, Duarte, Leandro D. S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Richmond Blackwell Science 01.02.2014; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: Beaches; biogeography; Birds; Brazil; Community ecology; dunes; Environmental conditions; environmental factors; Environmental gradient; Evolution; Habitats; niche conservatism; phylogenetic beta diversity; phylogenetic clustering; phylogenetic fuzzy-weighting; Phylogenetics; Phylogeny; planning; principal coordinates of phylogenetic structure; species diversity; Vegetation cover; Brazil

The evolution of a particular trait or combination of traits within lineages may affect subsequent evolutionary outcomes, leading closely related species to exhibit higher phenotypic similarity than expected under a simple Brownian‐motion evolutionary model. Niche theory postulates that phenotypes d...