Data from: Selection on fruit traits is mediated by the interplay between frugivorous birds, fruit flies, parasitoid wasps, and seed-dispersing ants

Every organism on Earth must cope with a multitude of species interactions both directly and indirectly throughout its life cycle. However, how selection from multiple species occupying different trophic levels affects diffuse mutualisms has received little attention. As a result, how a given specie...

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Autores principales: Palacio, Facundo Xavier, Siepielski, Adam, Lacoretz, Mariela, Ordano, Mariano
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Publicado: 2020
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Zoología
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
plant-animal interactions
seeds
ants
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/105578
https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.gxd2547hn
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SEDICI (UNLP) de Universidad Nacional de La Plata
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spelling I19-R120-10915-1055782023-04-26T12:46:46Z http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/105578 https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.gxd2547hn Data from: Selection on fruit traits is mediated by the interplay between frugivorous birds, fruit flies, parasitoid wasps, and seed-dispersing ants Palacio, Facundo Xavier Siepielski, Adam Lacoretz, Mariela Ordano, Mariano 2020-09-28T17:28:42Z 2020 es Zoología https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1 plant-animal interactions seeds ants Every organism on Earth must cope with a multitude of species interactions both directly and indirectly throughout its life cycle. However, how selection from multiple species occupying different trophic levels affects diffuse mutualisms has received little attention. As a result, how a given species amalgamates the combined effects of selection from multiple mutualists and antagonists to enhance its own fitness remains little understood. We investigated how multispecies interactions (frugivorous birds, ants, fruit flies, and parasitoid wasps) generate selection on fruit display traits in a seed dispersal mutualism. We used structural equation models to assess whether seed dispersers (frugivorous birds and ants) exerted phenotypic selection on fruit and seed traits in the Spiny Hackberry (Celtis ehrenbergiana), a fleshy-fruited tree, and how these selection regimes were influenced by fruit fly infestation and wasp parasitoidism levels. Birds exerted negative correlational selection on the combination of fruit crop size and mean seed weight, favoring either large crops with small seeds or small crops with large seeds. Parasitoids selected plants with higher fruit fly infestation levels, and fruit flies exerted positive directional selection on fruit size, which was positively correlated with seed weight. Therefore, higher parasitoidism indirectly correlated with higher plant fitness through increased bird fruit removal. In addition, ants exerted negative directional selection on mean seed weight. Our results show that strong selection on phenotypic traits may still arise in perceived diffuse species interactions. Overall, we emphasize the need to consider diverse direct and indirect partners to achieve a better understanding of the mechanisms driving phenotypic trait evolution in multispecies interactions. Fil: Lacoretz, Mariela. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Genética y Evolución, Departamento de Ecología; Argentina Fil: Ordano, Mariano. Fundación Miguel Lillo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina Fil: Palacio, Facundo Xavier. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo; Argentina. Fundación Miguel Lillo; Argentina Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo Conjunto de datos Conjunto de datos http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/zip Dataset used to analyze the ant fruit and seed removal experiment and to fit piecewise structural equation models.
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language Español
topic Zoología
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
plant-animal interactions
seeds
ants
spellingShingle Zoología
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
plant-animal interactions
seeds
ants
Palacio, Facundo Xavier
Siepielski, Adam
Lacoretz, Mariela
Ordano, Mariano
Data from: Selection on fruit traits is mediated by the interplay between frugivorous birds, fruit flies, parasitoid wasps, and seed-dispersing ants
topic_facet Zoología
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
plant-animal interactions
seeds
ants
description Every organism on Earth must cope with a multitude of species interactions both directly and indirectly throughout its life cycle. However, how selection from multiple species occupying different trophic levels affects diffuse mutualisms has received little attention. As a result, how a given species amalgamates the combined effects of selection from multiple mutualists and antagonists to enhance its own fitness remains little understood. We investigated how multispecies interactions (frugivorous birds, ants, fruit flies, and parasitoid wasps) generate selection on fruit display traits in a seed dispersal mutualism. We used structural equation models to assess whether seed dispersers (frugivorous birds and ants) exerted phenotypic selection on fruit and seed traits in the Spiny Hackberry (Celtis ehrenbergiana), a fleshy-fruited tree, and how these selection regimes were influenced by fruit fly infestation and wasp parasitoidism levels. Birds exerted negative correlational selection on the combination of fruit crop size and mean seed weight, favoring either large crops with small seeds or small crops with large seeds. Parasitoids selected plants with higher fruit fly infestation levels, and fruit flies exerted positive directional selection on fruit size, which was positively correlated with seed weight. Therefore, higher parasitoidism indirectly correlated with higher plant fitness through increased bird fruit removal. In addition, ants exerted negative directional selection on mean seed weight. Our results show that strong selection on phenotypic traits may still arise in perceived diffuse species interactions. Overall, we emphasize the need to consider diverse direct and indirect partners to achieve a better understanding of the mechanisms driving phenotypic trait evolution in multispecies interactions.
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author Palacio, Facundo Xavier
Siepielski, Adam
Lacoretz, Mariela
Ordano, Mariano
author_facet Palacio, Facundo Xavier
Siepielski, Adam
Lacoretz, Mariela
Ordano, Mariano
author_sort Palacio, Facundo Xavier
title Data from: Selection on fruit traits is mediated by the interplay between frugivorous birds, fruit flies, parasitoid wasps, and seed-dispersing ants
title_short Data from: Selection on fruit traits is mediated by the interplay between frugivorous birds, fruit flies, parasitoid wasps, and seed-dispersing ants
title_full Data from: Selection on fruit traits is mediated by the interplay between frugivorous birds, fruit flies, parasitoid wasps, and seed-dispersing ants
title_fullStr Data from: Selection on fruit traits is mediated by the interplay between frugivorous birds, fruit flies, parasitoid wasps, and seed-dispersing ants
title_full_unstemmed Data from: Selection on fruit traits is mediated by the interplay between frugivorous birds, fruit flies, parasitoid wasps, and seed-dispersing ants
title_sort data from: selection on fruit traits is mediated by the interplay between frugivorous birds, fruit flies, parasitoid wasps, and seed-dispersing ants
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