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IF 4.6 1区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ECOLOGY Functional Ecology Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI:10.1111/1365-2435.14373

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Flipper of a humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae). Photo taken on the north coast of the state of São Paulo, Brazil(Credit: Julio Cardoso, Projeto Baleia à Vista (ProBaV)).

The authors behind this month's cover photo investigated whether mammals that left terrestrial environments to use air and water as their main locomotor environment experienced constraints on the morphological evolution of their forelimb. They gathered a comprehensive sample of more than 800 species that cover the extant family-level diversity of mammals, using linear measurements of the forelimb skeleton to determine its shape and size. They found aquatic locomotion drives forelimb shape diversification, whereas aerial locomotion constrains forelimb diversity, demonstrating that locomotion in continuous fluid media can either facilitate or limit morphological diversity and, more broadly, that locomotor environments have fostered the morphological and functional evolution of mammalian forelimbs.

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座头鲸（Megaptera novaeangliae）的翻转鳍。照片摄于巴西圣保罗州北海岸（图片来源：Julio Cardoso，Projeto Baleia à Vista (ProBaV)）。本期封面照片的作者研究了离开陆地环境，以空气和水作为主要运动环境的哺乳动物是否会受到前肢形态进化的限制。他们收集了涵盖现存哺乳动物科级多样性的 800 多个物种的综合样本，利用对前肢骨骼的线性测量来确定其形状和大小。他们发现水生运动推动了前肢形状的多样化，而空中运动则限制了前肢的多样化，这表明在连续流体介质中的运动既可以促进也可以限制形态的多样化，更广泛地说，运动环境促进了哺乳动物前肢形态和功能的进化。

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Functional Ecology 环境科学-生态学

CiteScore

9.00

自引率

1.90%

发文量

243

审稿时长

4 months

期刊介绍： Functional Ecology publishes high-impact papers that enable a mechanistic understanding of ecological pattern and process from the organismic to the ecosystem scale. Because of the multifaceted nature of this challenge, papers can be based on a wide range of approaches. Thus, manuscripts may vary from physiological, genetics, life-history, and behavioural perspectives for organismal studies to community and biogeochemical studies when the goal is to understand ecosystem and larger scale ecological phenomena. We believe that the diverse nature of our journal is a strength, not a weakness, and we are open-minded about the variety of data, research approaches and types of studies that we publish. Certain key areas will continue to be emphasized: studies that integrate genomics with ecology, studies that examine how key aspects of physiology (e.g., stress) impact the ecology of animals and plants, or vice versa, and how evolution shapes interactions among function and ecological traits. Ecology has increasingly moved towards the realization that organismal traits and activities are vital for understanding community dynamics and ecosystem processes, particularly in response to the rapid global changes occurring in earth’s environment, and Functional Ecology aims to publish such integrative papers.