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

Autor(es)

Palacio, Facundo Xavier; Siepielski, Adam; Lacoretz, Mariela; Ordano, Mariano

Afiliación(es) del/de los autor(es)

Lacoretz, Mariela. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Genética y Evolución, Departamento de Ecología; Argentina
Ordano, Mariano. Fundación Miguel Lillo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Palacio, Facundo Xavier. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo; Argentina. Fundación Miguel Lillo; Argentina

Resumen

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.
Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo

Año de publicación

2020

Idioma

español

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application/zip
Dataset used to analyze the ant fruit and seed removal experiment and to fit piecewise structural equation models.

Clasificación temática de acuerdo a la FORD

Ciencias naturales

Materia

Zoología; plant-animal interactions; seeds; ants;

Condiciones de uso

Disponible en acceso abierto bajo licencia Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

Repositorio digital

SEDICI (UNLP) - Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Identificador alternativo

https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.gxd2547hn" target="_blank">https://doi.org/ref="https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.gxd2547hn" target="_blank">https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.gxd2547hn

Identificador alternativo

https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.gxd2547hn

Publicación referenciada

http://hdl.handle.net/hdl/10915/105610