Understanding global and regional patterns of termite diversity and regional functional traits

• DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.105538
• Publication Date: 2022-11-09T17:10:36Z
• Authors: Shengjie Liu; Shangwen Xia; Donghao Wu; Jocelyn E. Behm; Yuanyuan Meng; Hao Yuan; Ping Wen; Alice C. Hughes; Xiaodong Yang
• Keywords: Trait

Our understanding of broad-scale biodiversity and functional trait patterns is largely based on plants, relatively little information available soil arthropods. Here, we investigated the distribution termite diversity globally morphological traits across China. analyses showed increasing species richness with decreasing latitude at both globally, within-China. In addition, detected obvious latitudinal trends in mean community value average, body size leg length latitude. Furthermore, temperature, NDVI water variables were most important drivers controlling variation richness, temperature properties key geographic traits. global map one first high resolution maps for any arthropod group especially given importance termites, our work provides a useful baseline further ecological analysis.