Fig. 5: Relationship between morphological disparity and trade-off weight w. | Nature Communications

Fig. 5: Relationship between morphological disparity and trade-off weight w.

From: Unexpectedly uneven distribution of functional trade-offs explains cranial morphological diversity in carnivores

Fig. 5

a Trade-off weight w surface. Warmer colours indicate higher trade-off weight w values and cooler colours indicate lower trade-off weight w values. The shapes indicate the position of the real species on the surface. Circles represent placental carnivores, and triangles represent marsupials. b Sliding window-based Distribution of actual and theoretical morphological disparity at varying levels of trade-off weight w (see “Methods” section for more details). The pink line indicates actual morphological disparity at a window corresponding to a given weight w, and the blue line indicates the weight w volume (the theoretically available phenotypic space along the first two principal components at a given weight w). To be comparable, the values have been scaled to range between zero and one. Source Data are available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.23553648 in the “Code and Source Data” folder, included in the Data_Figure_5.rda file.

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