Fig. 5: Dispersal ability modulates the relationship between age and range size.
From: Evolutionary age correlates with range size across plants and animals
Effect of age and dispersal-related traits on species range size for all species (n = 25,355), amphibians (n = 4190 species), reef fishes (n = 1479 species), birds (n = 8785 species), reptiles (n = 4827 species), palms (n = 1115 species), terrestrial (n = 4919 species) and marine (n = 70 species) mammals. When including all species (A), we only considered rescaled, continuous dispersal-related traits (e.g., body and fruit size). We considered ‘flight ability’, ‘egg type’, ‘body size’, ‘hand-wing index’ and ‘fruit size’ dispersal-related traits. Asterisks (*) denote significant relationships. Evol. age = evolutionary age; ‘x’ indicates an interactive effect. Points indicate the effect size (Z-score), with error bars showing the standard error (SE) for the Z-scores derived from linear mixed-effects models. In some cases, error bars are not visible due to small standard error (SE) values. Source data is provided as a Source Data file.
