2021
DOI: 10.1111/ecog.05902
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Continental‐scale shifts in termite diversity and nesting and feeding strategies

Abstract: Typically, termites are treated as a single guild, which ignores important internal diversity, including diverse feeding and nesting traits. These termite traits are crucial for both ecosystem‐level fluxes and trophic webs, with implications for vertebrate species. Despite their ecological importance, the large‐scale distribution of termite feeding and nesting traits and the relationship with termite diversity is largely unknown. We investigated whether functional diversity, species richness and feeding (wood,… Show more

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“…However, our findings support Wijas et al. (2022), who demonstrated that nesting habits of Australian termites in general are distributed along a temperature and rainfall gradient and thus subject to climatic controls. It therefore appears likely that the acquisition of mound‐building in Drepanotermes played a crucial role in the expansion into tropical and mesic regions of Australia.…”
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confidence: 91%
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“…However, our findings support Wijas et al. (2022), who demonstrated that nesting habits of Australian termites in general are distributed along a temperature and rainfall gradient and thus subject to climatic controls. It therefore appears likely that the acquisition of mound‐building in Drepanotermes played a crucial role in the expansion into tropical and mesic regions of Australia.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 91%
“…This differs from previous studies on Australian Nasutitermitinae and Coptotermes, which found no phylogenetic signal for any abiotic variable and no relationship between abiotic variables and nesting habits (Lee et al 2017, Beasley-Hall et al 2019). However, our findings support Wijas et al (2022), who demonstrated that nesting habits of Australian termites in general are distributed along a temperature and rainfall gradient and thus subject to climatic controls. It therefore appears likely that the acquisition of mound-building in Drepanotermes played a crucial role in the expansion into tropical and mesic regions of Australia.…”
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confidence: 90%
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