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Global distribution of a key trophic guild contrasts with common latitudinal diversity patterns
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Most hypotheses explaining the general gradient of higher diversity toward the equator are implicit or explicit about greater species packing in the tropics. However, global patterns of diversity within guilds, including trophic guilds (i.e., groups of organisms that use similar food resources), are poorly known. We explored global diversity patterns of a key trophic guild in stream ecosystems, the detritivore shredders. This was motivated by the fundamental ecological role of shredders as decomposers of leaf litter and by some records pointing to low shredder diversity and abundance in the tropics, which contrasts with diversity patterns of most major taxa for which broad-scale latitudinal patterns haven been examined. Given this evidence, we hypothesized that shredders are more abundant and diverse in temperate than in tropical streams, and that this pattern is related to the higher temperatures and lower availability of high-quality leaf litter in the tropics. Our comprehensive global survey (129 stream sites from 14 regions on six continents) corroborated the expected latitudinal pattern and showed that shredder distribution (abundance, diversity and assemblage composition) was explained by a combination of factors, including water temperature (some taxa were restricted to cool waters) and biogeography (some taxa were more diverse in particular biogeographic realms). In contrast to our hypothesis, shredder diversity was unrelated to leaf toughness, but it was inversely related to litter diversity. Our findings markedly contrast with global trends of diversity for most taxa, and with the general rule of higher consumer diversity at higher levels of resource diversity. Moreover, they highlight the emerging role of temperature in understanding global patterns of diversity, which is of great relevance in the face of projected global warming.
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Differences exist in life-cycle length and phenology patterns of aquatic fauna, food web bases, detritus, green algae, and generally higher biodiversity, so that conservation and restoration efforts need to consider these specific characteristics.
“Differences exist, among other places, in the life-cycle length and the phenology patterns of the aquatic fauna, in the food web bases, on detritus [94,95], or on green algae [96,97], and in the generally higher biodiversity [92,98], so that conservation and restoration efforts need to consider these specific characteristics [9,10,99].”
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“Tropical streams exhibit substantial variability in their structure, function and factors shaping communities (Boyero et al. 2011; Boyero et al. 2015), thus we did not form hypotheses about which environmental variables would be important in this relatively understudied northern Afrotropical region.”
BackgroundOliveira, P. C. D. R., Kraak, M. H. S., Pena-Ortiz, M., van der Geest, H. G., & Verdonschot, P. F. M. (2019) · The Science of The Total Environment · doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135060 · Cited by 54
Tonin, A. M., Hepp, L. U., Restello, R. M., & Gonçalves, J. F. (2014) · Hydrobiologia · doi:10.1007/s10750-014-1939-9 · Cited by 53
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Self-citationHeino, J., MELO, A. S., Jyrkänkallio‐Mikkola, J., Petsch, D. K., Saito, V. S., Tolonen, K., Bini, L. M., Landeiro, V. L., Silva, T. S. F., Pajunen, V., et al. (2018) · Journal of Biogeography · doi:10.1111/jbi.13400 · Cited by 50
Boyero, L., Barmuta, L. A., Ratnarajah, L., Schmidt, K., & Pearson, R. G. (2012) · Freshwater Science · doi:10.1899/11-103.1 · Cited by 45
Self-citationEcosystem structure and function of afrotropical streams with contrasting land use
Fugère, V., Jacobsen, D., Finestone, E. H., & Chapman, L. J. (2018) · Freshwater Biology · doi:10.1111/fwb.13178 · Cited by 42
Amani, M., Graça, M. A. S., & Ferreira, V. (2019) · International Review of Hydrobiology · doi:10.1002/iroh.201801965 · Cited by 42
Self-citationMarques, N., Jankowski, K. J., Macedo, M. N., Juen, L., Luiza‐Andrade, A., & Deegan, L. A. (2021) · Hydrobiologia · doi:10.1007/s10750-021-04604-y · Cited by 44
Jinggut, T., Yule, C. M., & Boyero, L. (2012) · The Science of The Total Environment · doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.07.062 · Cited by 39
Self-citationFactors controlling leaf litter breakdown in Amazonian streams
Gonçalves, J. F., Couceiro, S. R. M., Rezende, R. D. S., Martins, R. T., Ottoni-Boldrini, B. M. D. P., Campos, C. M., Silva, J. O., & Hamada, N. (2016) · Hydrobiologia · doi:10.1007/s10750-016-3056-4 · Cited by 39
Self-citationIñiguez‐Armijos, C., Hampel, H., & Breuer, L. (2017) · Aquatic Ecology · doi:10.1007/s10452-017-9646-z · Cited by 39
“Evidently, these results are common for tropical streams (Boyero et al. 2011, 2015).”
BackgroundLeaf traits drive plant diversity effects on litter decomposition and FPOM production in streams
López‐Rojo, N., Martínez, A., Pérez, J., Basaguren, A., Pozo, J., & Boyero, L. (2018) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0198243 · Cited by 39
Self-citationEffects of density and predation risk on leaf litter processing by P hylloicus sp.
Rezende, R. D. S., Leite, G. F. M., De‐Lima, A. K. S., Filho, L. A. B. D. S., Chaves, C. V. C., Prette, A. C. H. D., de Freitas, J. S., & Gonçalves, J. F. (2015) · Austral Ecology · doi:10.1111/aec.12236 · Cited by 38
“Boyero et al. (2011) corroborated this evidence and found that the *Corresponding author.”
BackgroundResultInfluentialSelf-citationBenthic community structure and ecosystem functions in above- and below-waterfall pools in Borneo
Baker, K., Chadwick, M. A., Wahab, R. A., & Kahar, R. S. (2016) · Hydrobiologia · doi:10.1007/s10750-016-2975-4 · Cited by 38
Lubanga, H. L., Manyala, J. O., Sitati, A., Yegon, M. J., & Masese, F. O. (2021) · Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology · doi:10.1016/j.ecohyd.2021.03.001 · Cited by 38
Cornejo, A., Pérez, J., Alonso, A., López‐Rojo, N., Monroy, S., & Boyero, L. (2020) · Journal of Environmental Management · doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110425 · Cited by 38
Self-citationBonada, N., & Dolédec, S. (2017) · Aquatic Sciences · doi:10.1007/s00027-017-0554-z · Cited by 36
Drivers and Patterns of Ground-Dwelling Beetle Biodiversity across Northern Canada
Ernst, C. M., & Buddle, C. M. (2015) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0122163 · Cited by 36
“diversity at higher latitudes [8].”
BackgroundMasese, F. O., & McClain, M. E. (2012) · Ecohydrology · doi:10.1002/eco.1285 · Cited by 37
Pereira, P. D. S., de Souza, N. F., Baptista, D. F., Oliveira, J. L. D. M., & Buss, D. F. (2016) · Ecological Indicators · doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.05.031 · Cited by 35
Pearson, R. G., Connolly, N. M., Davis, A. M., & Brodie, J. (2021) · Marine Pollution Bulletin · doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112194 · Cited by 35
Self-citationJoint effects of temperature and litter quality on detritivore-mediated breakdown in streams
Landeira‐Dabarca, A., Pérez, J., Graça, M. A. S., & Boyero, L. (2018) · Aquatic Sciences · doi:10.1007/s00027-018-0598-8 · Cited by 34
Self-citationPiano, E., Doretto, A., Falasco, E., Gruppuso, L., Fenoglio, S., & Bona, F. (2019) · Hydrobiologia · doi:10.1007/s10750-019-04021-2 · Cited by 33
Firmino, V., Martins, R., Brasil, L., Cunha, E., Pinedo, R., Hamada, N., & Juen, L. (2023) · Environmental Pollution · doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2023.121184 · Cited by 30
Latitudinal gradient of nestedness and its potential drivers in stream detritivores
Boyero, L., Pearson, R. G., Swan, C. M., Hui, C., Albariño, R., Arunachalam, M., Callisto, M., Chará, J. D., Chará‐Serna, A. M., Chauvet, É., et al. (2015) · Ecography · doi:10.1111/ecog.00982 · Cited by 32
“While there are more detritivore species locally at higher than lower latitudes (i.e. they show a ‘ reversed ’ or positive latitudinal gradient for α -diversity), their regional species pools do not change systematically with latitude (Boyero et al. 2011a).”
InfluentialSelf-citationEnergy and physiological tolerance explain multi‐trophic soil diversity in temperate mountains
Calderón‐Sanou, I., Zinger, L., Hedde, M., Martinez‐Almoyna, C., Saillard, A., Renaud, J., Gielly, L., Khedim, N., Lionnet, C., Ohlmann, M., et al. (2022) · Diversity and Distributions · doi:10.1111/ddi.13529 · Cited by 32
“Indeed, the way environmental parameters drive local diversity can depend on the spatial extent (e.g. Steiner & Leibold, 2004), or the taxonomic or trophic groups being studied (e.g. Boyero et al., 2011; Peters et al., 2016; Tedersoo et al., 2014).”
BackgroundCatchment scale deforestation increases the uniqueness of subtropical stream communities
Schneck, F., Bini, L. M., MELO, A. S., Petsch, D. K., Saito, V. S., Wengrat, S., & Siqueira, T. (2022) · Oecologia · doi:10.1007/s00442-022-05215-7 · Cited by 32
Loss of Key Riparian Plant Species Impacts Stream Ecosystem Functioning
Alonso, A., Pérez, J., Monroy, S., López‐Rojo, N., Basaguren, A., Bosch, J., & Boyero, L. (2021) · Ecosystems · doi:10.1007/s10021-020-00592-7 · Cited by 33
Self-citationRamos, S. M., Graça, M. A. S., & Ferreira, V. (2021) · Aquatic Ecology · doi:10.1007/s10452-021-09872-3 · Cited by 32
Self-citationExtreme temperature events alter stream ecosystem functioning
Pérez, J., Correa‐Araneda, F., López‐Rojo, N., Basaguren, A., & Boyero, L. (2020) · Ecological Indicators · doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106984 · Cited by 28
Self-citationRezende, R. D. S., Medeiros, A. O., Gonçalves, J. F., Feio, M. J., Gusmão, E. P., GOMES, V., Calor, A. R., & Dahora, J. (2019) · Journal of Tropical Ecology · doi:10.1017/s0266467419000269 · Cited by 29
“%) comparedwith other tropical streams (about 15%), but still low values compared with temperate streams (about 39%; Boyero et al. 2011, 2015; Rezende et al. 2015).”
BackgroundSelf-citationEcology of streams in a biogeographic isolate—the Queensland Wet Tropics, Australia
Pearson, R. G., Connolly, N. M., & Boyero, L. (2015) · Freshwater Science · doi:10.1086/681525 · Cited by 28
“…abundance was thought to be unusual because of a reported dearth of shredders in the tropics (e.g., Dudgeon and Wu 1999, Dobson et al. 2002), but it appears that shredder assemblages in tropical streams vary globally (Camacho et al. 2009, Yule et al. 2009, Boyero et al. 2011a, 2012b, 2014).”
BackgroundSelf-citationFerreira, W. R., Ligeiro, R., Macedo, D. R., Hughes, R. M., Kaufmann, P. R., Oliveira, L. G., & Callisto, M. (2015) · Annales de Limnologie - International Journal of Limnology · doi:10.1051/limn/2015004 · Cited by 28
Self-citationCornejo, A., Pérez, J., López‐Rojo, N., García, G., Pérez, E., Guerra, A., Nieto, C., & Boyero, L. (2021) · Environmental Pollution · doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117243 · Cited by 27
Self-citationShredders prefer soft and fungal-conditioned leaves, regardless of their initial chemical traits
Biasi, C., Cogo, G. B., Hepp, L. U., & Santos, S. (2019) · Iheringia Série Zoologia · doi:10.1590/1678-4766e2019004 · Cited by 25
Jinggut, T., & Yule, C. M. (2015) · Freshwater Science · doi:10.1086/681256 · Cited by 24
Self-citationLopes, M. P., Martins, R. T., da Silveira, L. S., & Alves, R. D. G. (2015) · Brazilian Journal of Biology · doi:10.1590/1519-6984.00414 · Cited by 24
Yang, C., Wenger, S. J., Rugenski, A. T., Wehrtmann, I. S., Connelly, S., & Freeman, M. C. (2020) · Freshwater Biology · doi:10.1111/fwb.13524 · Cited by 24
Ramulifho, P. A., Foord, S. H., & Rivers-Moore, N. (2020) · Ecology and Evolution · doi:10.1002/ece3.6333 · Cited by 23
“Global warming will enhance extinction rates of native species, because of cold water habitat reduction, dissolved oxygen depletion, changes in the ecological functioning, and introduction of allochthonous invaders (Boyero et al., 2011; Fenoglio et al., 2010; Sartori & Brittain, 2015).”
BackgroundTop-down and bottom-up control of epilithic periphyton in a tropical stream
Graça, M. A. S., Callisto, M., Barbosa, J. E. D. L., Firmiano, K. R., França, J. S., & Gonçalves, J. F. (2018) · Freshwater Science · doi:10.1086/700886 · Cited by 23
Self-citationLatitudinal diversity gradients in Mesozoic non-marine turtles
Nicholson, D. B., Holroyd, P. A., Valdes, P. J., & Barrett, P. M. (2016) · Royal Society Open Science · doi:10.1098/rsos.160581 · Cited by 22
Peralta‐Maraver, I., Stubbington, R., Arnon, S., Kratina, P., Krause, S., Cionek, V. D. M., Leite, N. K., da Silva, A. L. L., Thomaz, S. M., Posselt, M., et al. (2021) · The Science of The Total Environment · doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145494 · Cited by 26
Self-citationRezende, R. D. S., Bernardi, J. P., Gomes, E. S., Martins, R. T., Hamada, N., & Gonçalves, J. F. (2020) · Limnology · doi:10.1007/s10201-020-00628-w · Cited by 22
Self-citationBurington, Z. L., Inclán, D. J., Pollet, M. A. A., & Stireman, J. O. (2020) · Insect Conservation and Diversity · doi:10.1111/icad.12416 · Cited by 21
Resource‐allocation tradeoffs in caddisflies facing multiple stressors
Correa‐Araneda, F., Basaguren, A., Abdala‐Díaz, R., Tonin, A. M., & Boyero, L. (2017) · Ecology and Evolution · doi:10.1002/ece3.3094 · Cited by 21
Self-citationTamaris-Turizo, C. E., Agudelo, G. A. P., & Muñoz, I. (2018) · Revista Brasileira de Entomologia · doi:10.1016/j.rbe.2018.07.003 · Cited by 21
“In temperate latitude rivers, for example, the recurrent seasonal dynamics marked by temperature variations have been extensively studied (Dallas, 2008; Boyero et al., 2011; Orr et al., 2015; Wagner et al., 2017).”
BackgroundTiegs, S. D., Entrekin, S. A., Reeves, G. H., Kuntzsch, D., & Merritt, R. W. (2013) · Wetlands · doi:10.1007/s13157-013-0470-5 · Cited by 21
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Rincón, J., & Covich, A. P. (2014) · Revista de Biología Tropical · doi:10.15517/rbt.v62i0.15784 · Cited by 20
“…tropical streams (e.g., Irons, Oswood, Stout & Pringle, 1994; Benstead, 1996; Rosemond, Pringle & Ramirez, 1998; Graça, 2001; Boulton et al., 2008; Boyero et al., 2011; Boyero et al. 2012) and even less about species-specific effects on rates of litter processing (Covich, Palmer & Crowl, 1999;…”
BackgroundSimmons, J. A., Anderson, M. L., Dress, W. J., Hanna, C., Hornbach, D. J., Janmaat, A. F., Kuserk, F. T., March, J. G., Murray, T., Niedzwiecki, J. H., et al. (2014) · River Research and Applications · doi:10.1002/rra.2796 · Cited by 19
“…a high priority as a way to ameliorate or offset some n-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in cial and no modifications or adaptations are made. by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. of the anthropogenic temperature increases (Broadmeadow et al., 2011; Hester and Doyle, 2011).”
BackgroundWhat drives detrital decomposition in neotropical tank bromeliads?
Leroy, C., Corbara, B., Dézerald, O., Trzcinski, M. K., Carrias, J., Déjean, A., & Céréghino, R. (2017) · Hydrobiologia · doi:10.1007/s10750-017-3242-z · Cited by 19
Extreme climate events can slow down litter breakdown in streams
Correa‐Araneda, F., Tonin, A. M., Pérez, J., Álvarez, K., López‐Rojo, N., Díaz, A., Esse, C., Encina‐Montoya, F., Figueroa, R., Cornejo, A., et al. (2020) · Aquatic Sciences · doi:10.1007/s00027-020-0701-9 · Cited by 19
Self-citationMasese, F. O., Wanderi, E. W., Dalu, T., Chari, L. D., & McClain, M. E. (2024) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-0-443-23898-7.00020-8 · Cited by 18
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Effects of litter size and quality on processing by decomposers in a tropical savannah stream
Rezende, R. D. S., Leite, G. F. M., Ramos, K., Torres, I., Tonin, A. M., & Gonçalves, J. F. (2018) · Biotropica · doi:10.1111/btp.12547 · Cited by 18
“Low shredder density is commonly observed in tropical streams (Boyero et al. 2011, 2012), although this group can be abundant in some places (Cheshire et al. 2005, Allan et al. 2009).”
BackgroundSelf-citationLeite, G. F. M., Silva, F. T. C., Navarro, F. K. S. P., Rezende, R. D. S., & Gonçalves, J. F. (2016) · Acta Limnologica Brasiliensia · doi:10.1590/s2179-975x1516 · Cited by 18
Self-citationRezende, R. D. S., Correia, P. R. S., Gonçalves, J. F., & dos Santos, A. M. (2017) · Journal of Limnology · doi:10.4081/jlimnol.2017.1601 · Cited by 17
Self-citationMulti-Scale Biophysical Factors Driving Litter Dynamics in Streams
Tonin, A. M., Gonçalves, J. F., Pearson, R. G., Graça, M. A. S., Pérez, J., & Boyero, L. (2021) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-72854-0_2 · Cited by 17
Self-citationHines, J., Reyes, M., & Gessner, M. O. (2016) · Ecology · doi:10.1002/ecy.1447 · Cited by 16
Self-citationSerpa, K. V., Kiffer, W. P., Borelli, M. F., Ferraz, M. A., & Moretti, M. S. (2019) · Hydrobiologia · doi:10.1007/s10750-019-04149-1 · Cited by 17
Self-citationZúñiga-Sarango, W., Gaona, F. P., Reyes-Castillo, V., & Armijos, C. I. (2020) · Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution · doi:10.3389/fevo.2020.592404 · Cited by 17
“…to be essential for the functioning of montane streams in the Neotropical region (Encalada et al., 2010; Dangles et al., 2011; Iñiguez-Armijos et al., 2016, 2018b), despite being a species group showing a low richness in the tropics as compared to temperate streams (Boyero et al., 2011).”
BackgroundMariluan, G. D., Villanueva, V. D., & Albariño, R. (2015) · Hydrobiologia · doi:10.1007/s10750-015-2324-z · Cited by 17
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Metadata
- Authors
- Boyero, L., Pearson, R. G., Dudgeon, D., Graça, M. A. S., Gessner, M. O., Albariño, R. J., Ferreira, V., Yule, C. M., Boulton, A. J., Arunachalam, M., Callisto, M., Chauvet, E., Ramírez, A., Chará, J., Moretti, M. S., Gonçalves, J. F., Helson, J. E., Chará-Serna, A. M., Encalada, A. C., Davies, J. N., Lamothe, S., Cornejo, A., Li, A. O. Y., Buria, L. M., Villanueva, V. D., Zúñiga, M. C., & Pringle, C. M.
- Affiliations
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ES)
- James Cook University (AU)
- University of Hong Kong (HK)
- University of Coimbra (PT)
- ETH Zurich (CH)
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (AR)
- Monash University Malaysia (MY)
- University of New England (AU)
- Manonmaniam Sundaranar University (IN)
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (BR)
- University of Puerto Rico System (PR)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Universidad San Francisco de Quito (EC)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- University of Georgia (US)
- ORCID
- Boyero, Luz
- Pearson, Richard G
- Dudgeon, David
- Graça, Manuel A. S
- Gessner, Mark O
- Albariño, Ricardo J
- Ferreira, Verónica
- Yule, Catherine M
- Boulton, Andrew J
- Arunachalam, Muthukumarasamy
- Callisto, Marcos
- Ramírez, Alonso
- Moretti, Marcelo S
- Gonçalves, José F
- Encalada, Andrea C
- Villanueva, Verónica D
- Pringle, Catherine M
- Venue
- Ecology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2011-09
- Volume
- 92
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 1839-1848
- ISSN
- 0012-9658 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2012697334
- Cited by
- 191
- References
- 48
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 26 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 18 · 2015: 18 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 14 · 2012: 7
- FWCI
- 8.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- The HKU Scholars Hub (University of Hong Kong) (submittedVersion)
- RUNE (Research UNE) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Geographic Society (7980-06)
- James Cook University
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
- Keywords
- trophic guilds, latitudinal diversity gradient, stream ecosystems, leaf litter decomposition, water temperature, biogeographic realms, leaf litter quality, resource diversity, consumer heterogeneity, global warming
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Demography, Feeding Behavior, Invertebrates, Food Chain, Biodiversity
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