Birds optimize fruit size consumed near their geographic range limits-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Birds optimize fruit size consumed near their geographic range limits

Published:2024-07-19 Issue:6706 Volume:385 Page:331-336
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Martins Lucas P.¹^ORCID,Stouffer Daniel B.¹^ORCID,Blendinger Pedro G.²³^ORCID,Böhning-Gaese Katrin⁴⁵,Costa José Miguel⁶^ORCID,Dehling D. Matthias⁴⁷,Donatti Camila I.⁸⁹^ORCID,Emer Carine¹⁰¹¹^ORCID,Galetti Mauro¹¹¹²^ORCID,Heleno Ruben⁶^ORCID,Menezes Ícaro¹³^ORCID,Morante-Filho José Carlos¹³^ORCID,Muñoz Marcia C.¹⁴^ORCID,Neuschulz Eike Lena⁴^ORCID,Pizo Marco Aurélio¹¹^ORCID,Quitián Marta⁴¹⁵¹⁶^ORCID,Ruggera Roman A.¹⁷¹⁸^ORCID,Saavedra Francisco⁴¹⁹^ORCID,Santillán Vinicio⁴²⁰^ORCID,Schleuning Matthias⁴^ORCID,da Silva Luís Pascoal²¹²²^ORCID,Ribeiro da Silva Fernanda²³^ORCID,Tobias Joseph A.²⁴^ORCID,Traveset Anna¹⁶,Vollstädt Maximilian G. R.⁴¹⁶²⁵^ORCID,Tylianakis Jason M.¹²⁶^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, Aotearoa New Zealand.

2. Instituto de Ecología Regional, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán and CONICET, CC 34, 4107 Tucumán, Argentina.

3. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Miguel Lillo 2005, 4000 Tucumán, Argentina.

4. Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

5. Institute for Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Straße 13, 60439 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

6. Centre for Functional Ecology, Associate Laboratory TERRA, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Calçada Martim de Freitas, 3000-456 Coimbra, Portugal.

7. Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton Campus, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia.

8. Conservation International, Arlington, VA 22202, USA.

9. Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5640, USA.

10. Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden Research Institute, Rua Pacheco Leão 915, Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 22460-030, Brazil.

11. Center for Reseach on Biodiversity and Climate Change (CBioClima), Department of Biodiversity, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Rio Claro, SP 13506-900, Brazil.

12. Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University (FIU), Miami, FL 33199, USA.

13. Applied Conservation Ecology Lab, Santa Cruz State University, Rodovia Ilhéus- Itabuna, km 16, Salobrinho, Ilhéus, BA 45662-000, Brazil.

14. Programa de Biología, Universidad de La Salle, Carrera 2 # 10-70, Bogotá, Colombia.

15. Systematic Zoology Laboratory, Tokyo Metropolitan University TMU, Tokyo, 1-1 Minami-Osawa, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan.

16. Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados (CSIC-UIB), Miquel Marqués 21, 07190 Esporles, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.

17. Instituto de Ecorregiones Andinas (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas – Universidad Nacional de Jujuy), Canónigo Gorriti 237, Y4600 San Salvador de Jujuy, Jujuy, Argentina.

18. Cátedra de Diversidad Biológica III, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Alberdi 47, Y4600 San Salvador de Jujuy, Jujuy, Argentina.

19. Instituto de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias Puras y Naturales, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia.

20. Unidad Académica de Posgrado, Universidad Católica de Cuenca, Av. de las Américas, Cuenca, Ecuador.

21. CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal.

22. BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal.

23. Laboratory of Ecology and Management of Forest Ecosystems, University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Trindade, Florianópolis, SC 88040-900, Brazil.

24. Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK.

25. Section for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Oester Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark.

26. Bioprotection Aotearoa, University of Canterbury, Private bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Abstract

Animals can adjust their diet to maximize energy or nutritional intake. For example, birds often target fruits that match their beak size because those fruits can be consumed more efficiently. We hypothesized that pressure to optimize diet—measured as matching between fruit and beak size—increases under stressful environments, such as those that determine species’ range edges. Using fruit-consumption and trait information for 97 frugivorous bird and 831 plant species across six continents, we demonstrate that birds feed more frequently on closely size-matched fruits near their geographic range limits. This pattern was particularly strong for highly frugivorous birds, whereas opportunistic frugivores showed no such tendency. These findings highlight how frugivore interactions might respond to stressful conditions and reveal that trait matching may not predict resource use consistently.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Link

https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.adj1856

Reference416 articles.

1. C. S. Elton, Animal Ecology (Sidgwick and Jackson, 1927).

2. Concluding Remarks

3. The Multidimensional Nutritional Niche

4. Size, foraging, and food web structure

5. Foraging biology predicts food web complexity