DISTANCE AND PHYLOGENY TO SPIDER TRAIT DIVERSITY

摘要: The interplay between ecological and evolutionary processes brings several advances to ecology in the last decade. However, two main issues are still part of ecophylogenetics: the bias to plant studies and the absence of studies (with other groups except plants) considering how environmental and geographic factors contribute to phylogenetic and trait diversity. We evaluated vegetation-living spiders occurring at different plant species in 12 sites along~ 2000 km of the Brazilian coast. We first tested if there are phylogenetic signals in spider trait diversity.