High association strengths are linked to phenotypic similarity, including plumage color and patterns, of participants in mixed-species bird flocks of southwestern China

doi:10.1093/cz/zoac096

	High association strengths are linked to phenotypic similarity, including plumage color and patterns, of participants in mixed-species bird flocks of southwestern China
	Zhou, Liping 1; Mammides, Christos 2; Chen, Youfang 3; Zhou, Wenyi 4; Dai, Wenzhang 6,7; Braun, Edward L.; Kimball, Rebecca T.; Liu, Yang 8; Robinson, Scott K.; Goodale, Eben 9
	2022
发表期刊	CURRENT ZOOLOGY
ISSN	1674-5507
摘要	Participants in mixed-species bird flocks (MSFs) have been shown to associate with species that are similar in body size, diet, and evolutionary history, suggesting that facilitation structures these assemblages. In addition, several studies have suggested that species in MSFs resemble each other in their plumage, but this question has not been systematically investigated for any MSF system. During the nonbreeding season of 2020 and 2021, we sampled 585 MSFs on 14 transects in 2 habitats of Tongbiguang Nature Reserve in western Yunnan Province, China. We performed social network analysis and the Multiple Regression Quadratic Assignment Procedure to evaluate the effect of 4 species traits (body size, overall plumage color, distinctive plumage patterns, and diet) and evolutionary history on species association strength at the whole-MSF and within-MSF levels. All 41 significant relationships showed that species with stronger associations were more similar in their various traits. Body size had the strongest effect on association strength, followed by phylogeny, plumage patterns, and plumage color; diet had the weakest effect. Our results are consistent with the hypotheses that the benefits of associating with phenotypically similar species outweigh the potential costs of interspecific competition, and that trait matching can occur in plumage characteristics, albeit more weakly than in other traits. Several explanations exist as to why similarities in plumage may occur in MSFs, including that they could reduce predators' ability to target phenotypically odd individuals. Whether trait matching in plumage occurs through assortative processes in ecological time or is influenced by co-evolution requires further study.
关键词	co-evolution interaction networks mixed-species animal groups phenotypic similarity trait convergence
学科领域	Zoology
DOI	10.1093/cz/zoac096
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS关键词	GREY-CHEEKED FULVETTA ; FORAGING BEHAVIOR ; HUMAN VISION ; FOREST ; MIMICRY ; ORGANIZATION ; BONFERRONI ; AVOIDANCE ; PREDATORS ; EVOLUTION
WOS研究方向	Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
WOS记录号	WOS:000937329500001
出版者	OXFORD UNIV PRESS
文献子类	Article; Early Access
出版地	OXFORD
EISSN	2396-9814
资助机构	Guangxi University [A3360051014, A3360051010] ; Guangxi Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Conservation [AE33600102]
作者邮箱	zhou.lp@outlook.com ; ebengoodale@gxu.edu.cn
作品OA属性	gold
引用统计	被引频次：3[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.ibcas.ac.cn/handle/2S10CLM1/28700
专题	植被与环境变化国家重点实验室
作者单位	1.Guangxi Univ, Coll Forestry, Guangxi Key Lab Forest Ecol & Conservat, Nanning 530004, Peoples R China 2.Kunming Inst Zool, Chinese Acad Sci, Kunming Nat Hist Museum Zool, Kunming 650223, Peoples R China 3.Frederick Univ, Nat Conservat Unit, 7 Yianni Frederickou St, CY-1036 Nicosia, Cyprus 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Bot, State Key Lab Vegetat & Environm Change, Beijing 100093, Peoples R China 5.Univ Florida, Florida Museum Nat Hist, Gainesville, FL 34201 USA 6.Zhou, Wenyi; Braun, Edward L.; Kimball, Rebecca T.] Univ Florida, Dept Biol, Gainesville, FL 34201 USA 7.Nanjing Univ, Sch Life Sci, Nanjing 210000, Peoples R China 8.Nanjing Univ, Inst Wetland Ecol, Nanjing 210000, Peoples R China 9.Sun Yatsen Univ, Sch Ecol, State Key Lab Biocontrol, Guangzhou 510275, Peoples R China 10.Xian Jiaotong Liverpool Univ, Dept Hlth & Environm Sci, Suzhou 215123, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhou, Liping,Mammides, Christos,Chen, Youfang,et al. High association strengths are linked to phenotypic similarity, including plumage color and patterns, of participants in mixed-species bird flocks of southwestern China[J]. CURRENT ZOOLOGY,2022.
APA	Zhou, Liping.,Mammides, Christos.,Chen, Youfang.,Zhou, Wenyi.,Dai, Wenzhang.,...&Goodale, Eben.(2022).High association strengths are linked to phenotypic similarity, including plumage color and patterns, of participants in mixed-species bird flocks of southwestern China.CURRENT ZOOLOGY.
MLA	Zhou, Liping,et al."High association strengths are linked to phenotypic similarity, including plumage color and patterns, of participants in mixed-species bird flocks of southwestern China".CURRENT ZOOLOGY (2022).

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