Trait-environment Relationship in Tadpole Communities of the Southern Atlantic Forest.

ABSTRACT: The diversity of functional traits can be evaluated by analyzing an individual's morphological, physiological, and behavioral attributes, revealing the effect of environmental filters on communities. However, the role of different spatial scales in environmental evaluation over ecological attributes is complex and poorly studied in tadpole communities. Here, we investigated the association between micro (local) and macro (landscape) variables and the morphological traits of tadpoles in the southern region of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. We sampled 28 waterbodies (ponds and streams) and evaluated 2861 individuals of 22 anuran species. Our sampling reached a wide geographic area across three states in southern Brazil. We measured the physicochemical characteristics of the water, as well as

SUBMITTER: Dos Santos RC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12554581 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature