Dietary generalism accelerates arrival and persistence of coral-reef fishes in their novel ranges under climate change
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Cristián J. Monaco
Southern Seas Ecology Laboratories, School of Biological Sciences and The Environment Institute, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
IFREMER, IRD, ILM, UPF, UMR Ecosystèmes Insulaires Océaniens, Taravao, Tahiti, Polynésie française
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Cristián J. Monaco and Ivan Nagelkerken, Southern Seas Ecology Laboratories, School of Biological Sciences and The Environment Institute, DX 650 418, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorCorey J. A. Bradshaw
Global Ecology, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Search for more papers by this authorDavid J. Booth
School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Search for more papers by this authorBronwyn M. Gillanders
Southern Seas Ecology Laboratories, School of Biological Sciences and The Environment Institute, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Search for more papers by this authorDavid S. Schoeman
Global-Change Ecology Research Group, School of Science and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast, Qld, Australia
Centre for African Conservation Ecology, Department of Zoology, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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Ivan Nagelkerken
Southern Seas Ecology Laboratories, School of Biological Sciences and The Environment Institute, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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Cristián J. Monaco and Ivan Nagelkerken, Southern Seas Ecology Laboratories, School of Biological Sciences and The Environment Institute, DX 650 418, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
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Cristián J. Monaco
Southern Seas Ecology Laboratories, School of Biological Sciences and The Environment Institute, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
IFREMER, IRD, ILM, UPF, UMR Ecosystèmes Insulaires Océaniens, Taravao, Tahiti, Polynésie française
Correspondence
Cristián J. Monaco and Ivan Nagelkerken, Southern Seas Ecology Laboratories, School of Biological Sciences and The Environment Institute, DX 650 418, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorCorey J. A. Bradshaw
Global Ecology, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Search for more papers by this authorDavid J. Booth
School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Search for more papers by this authorBronwyn M. Gillanders
Southern Seas Ecology Laboratories, School of Biological Sciences and The Environment Institute, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Search for more papers by this authorDavid S. Schoeman
Global-Change Ecology Research Group, School of Science and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast, Qld, Australia
Centre for African Conservation Ecology, Department of Zoology, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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Ivan Nagelkerken
Southern Seas Ecology Laboratories, School of Biological Sciences and The Environment Institute, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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Cristián J. Monaco and Ivan Nagelkerken, Southern Seas Ecology Laboratories, School of Biological Sciences and The Environment Institute, DX 650 418, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
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Climate change is redistributing marine and terrestrial species globally. Life-history traits mediate the ability of species to cope with novel environmental conditions, and can be used to gauge the potential redistribution of taxa facing the challenges of a changing climate. However, it is unclear whether the same traits are important across different stages of range shifts (arrival, population increase, persistence). To test which life-history traits most mediate the process of range extension, we used a 16-year dataset of 35 range-extending coral-reef fish species and quantified the importance of various traits on the arrival time (earliness) and degree of persistence (prevalence and patchiness) at higher latitudes. We show that traits predisposing species to shift their range more rapidly (large body size, broad latitudinal range, long dispersal duration) did not drive the early stages of redistribution. Instead, we found that as diet breadth increased, the initial arrival and establishment (prevalence and patchiness) of climate migrant species in temperate locations occurred earlier. While the initial incursion of range-shifting species depends on traits associated with dispersal potential, subsequent establishment hinges more on a species’ ability to exploit novel food resources locally. These results highlight that generalist species that can best adapt to novel food sources might be most successful in a future ocean.
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All data and code are available in the GitHub repository github.com/cristianmonaco/Diet-generalism-favours-range-expansion.
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