ArticleBiology letters2013
Latitudinal gradients in intraspecific ecological diversity.
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- Resource diversity promotes among-individual diet variation, but not genomic diversity, in lake stickleback.Ecology letters · 2020Article
- Competition and resource breadth shape niche variation and overlap in multiple trophic dimensions.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Scale-dependent patterns of intraspecific trait variations in two globally invasive species.Oecologia · 2019Article
- Principles of niche expansion.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Intraspecific ecological niche divergence and reproductive shifts foster cytotype displacement and provide ecological opportunity to polyploids.Annals of botany · 2018Article
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Abstract
The increase in the number of species with decreasing latitude is a striking pattern of global biodiversity. An important feature of studies of this pattern up to now has been the focus on species as the fundamental unit of interest, neglecting potential within-species ecological diversity. Here, we took a new perspective on this topic by measuring the degree to which individuals within populations differ in niche attributes across a latitudinal gradient (range: 54.01° S to 69.12° N). We show that 156 populations of 76 species across a wide range of vertebrate and invertebrate animal taxa contain more ecologically diverse assemblages of individuals towards lower latitudes. Our results add a new level of complexity to our understanding of global patterns of biodiversity and suggest the possibility that niche variation is partly responsible for the latitudinal gradients of species diversity.
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