Capdevila, P, Beger, M orcid.org/0000-0003-1363-3571, Blomberg, SP et al. (3 more authors) (2020) Longevity, body dimension and reproductive mode drive differences in aquatic versus terrestrial life‐history strategies. Functional Ecology, 34 (8). pp. 1613-1625. ISSN 0269-8463
Abstract
1. Aquatic and terrestrial environments display stark differences in key environmental factors and phylogenetic composition but their consequences for the evolution of species' life‐history strategies remain poorly understood.
2. Here, we examine whether and how life‐history strategies vary between terrestrial and aquatic species. We use demographic information for 685 terrestrial and 122 aquatic animal and plant species to estimate key life‐history traits. We then use phylogenetically corrected least squares regression to explore potential differences in trade‐offs between life‐history traits between both environments. We contrast life‐history strategies of aquatic versus terrestrial species in a principal component analysis while accounting for body dimensions and phylogenetic relationships.
3. Our results show that the same trade‐offs structure terrestrial and aquatic life histories, resulting in two dominant axes of variation that describe species' pace of life and reproductive strategies. Terrestrial plants display a large diversity of strategies, including the longest‐lived species in this study. Aquatic animals exhibit higher reproductive frequency than terrestrial animals. When correcting for body size, mobile and sessile terrestrial organisms show slower paces of life than aquatic ones.
4. Aquatic and terrestrial species are ruled by the same life‐history trade‐offs, but have evolved different strategies, likely due to distinct environmental selective pressures. Such contrasting life‐history strategies have important consequences for the conservation and management of aquatic and terrestrial species.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Authors. Functional Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | aquatic–terrestrial comparisons; comparative demography; fast–slow continuum; life‐history trait ; matrix population model; phylogenetic analyses |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Biological Sciences (Leeds) > School of Biology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jul 2020 13:05 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 22:21 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/1365-2435.13604 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:163282 |