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Antell GT, Kiessling W, Aberhan M, Saupe EE. Marine Biodiversity and Geographic Distributions Are Independent on Large Scales. Curr Biol 2020; 30:115-121.e5. [PMID: 31839449 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.10.065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2019] [Revised: 10/17/2019] [Accepted: 10/30/2019] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
Abstract
Fundamental ecological and evolutionary theories, such as community saturation and diversity-dependent diversification, assume that biotic competition restricts resource use, and thus limits realized niche breadth and geographic range size [1-3]. This principle is called competitive exclusion. The corollary (ecological release) posits that, after competitors disappear from a region, species that were previously excluded will invade. Hundreds of field experiments have demonstrated ecological release in living populations. However, few of these studies were conducted in marine environments, and almost no work extended beyond 10 years and 1,000 km2 [4, 5]. In limited investigation of marine taxa at larger spatiotemporal scales, macroecologists and paleobiologists have observed little evidence of competitive exclusion [6-9]. Here, we quantified spatial trends in the rich and densely sampled fossil history of brachiopods and bivalves, while accounting for inconsistent sampling coverage through time using a new method of spatial standardization. The number of potential competitors in a region did not explain the geographic distribution of constituent species or genera. Furthermore, although ecological release predicts species to expand after extinction events, survivors of intervals with net species loss expanded as rarely as species in other intervals. Regression model estimates indicated different spatial responses of brachiopods and bivalves, and of habitat specialists and generalists, but no effect from changes in number of potential competitors. Biotic competition may control the distribution of populations, but, on larger spatiotemporal scales, non-competitive factors may have driven biogeographic patterns of brachiopods and bivalves.
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Affiliation(s)
- Gawain T Antell
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3AN, UK.
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- Section Paleobiology, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Loewenichstraße 28, Erlangen 91054, Germany
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- Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, Berlin 10115, Germany
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3AN, UK.
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Herrera-Alsina L, Pigot AL, Hildenbrandt H, Etienne RS. The influence of ecological and geographic limits on the evolution of species distributions and diversity. Evolution 2018; 72:1978-1991. [PMID: 30055007 PMCID: PMC6220796 DOI: 10.1111/evo.13563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2017] [Revised: 07/17/2018] [Accepted: 07/18/2018] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
Abstract
The role of ecological limits in regulating the distribution and diversification of species remains controversial. Although such limits must ultimately arise from constraints on local species coexistence, this spatial context is missing from most macroevolutionary models. Here, we develop a stochastic, spatially explicit model of species diversification to explore the phylogenetic and biogeographic patterns expected when local diversity is bounded. We show how local ecological limits, by regulating opportunities for range expansion and thus rates of speciation and extinction, lead to temporal slowdowns in diversification and predictable differences in equilibrium diversity between regions. However, our models also show that even when regions have identical diversity limits, the dynamics of diversification and total number of species supported at equilibrium can vary dramatically depending on the relative size of geographic and local ecological niche space. Our model predicts that small regions with higher local ecological limits support a higher standing diversity and more balanced phylogenetic trees than large geographic areas with more stringent constraints on local coexistence. Our findings highlight how considering the spatial context of diversification can provide new insights into the role of ecological limits in driving variation in biodiversity across space, time, and clades.
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- Leonel Herrera-Alsina
- Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, 9700 CC, The Netherlands
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- Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, 9700 CC, The Netherlands.,Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, 9700 CC, The Netherlands
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- Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, 9700 CC, The Netherlands
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Biedma L, Román J, Calzada J, Friis G, Godoy JA. Phylogeography of Crocidura suaveolens (Mammalia: Soricidae) in Iberia has been shaped by competitive exclusion by C. russula. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2017. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blx126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Moritz CC, Pratt RC, Bank S, Bourke G, Bragg JG, Doughty P, Keogh JS, Laver RJ, Potter S, Teasdale LC, Tedeschi LG, Oliver PM. Cryptic lineage diversity, body size divergence, and sympatry in a species complex of Australian lizards (
Gehyra
). Evolution 2017; 72:54-66. [DOI: 10.1111/evo.13380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2017] [Revised: 09/15/2017] [Accepted: 10/02/2017] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Craig C. Moritz
- Division of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, and Centre for Biodiversity Analysis The Australian National University Building 116, Daley Road Acton ACT 2601 Australia
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- Division of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, and Centre for Biodiversity Analysis The Australian National University Building 116, Daley Road Acton ACT 2601 Australia
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- Division of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, and Centre for Biodiversity Analysis The Australian National University Building 116, Daley Road Acton ACT 2601 Australia
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- Division of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, and Centre for Biodiversity Analysis The Australian National University Building 116, Daley Road Acton ACT 2601 Australia
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- Division of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, and Centre for Biodiversity Analysis The Australian National University Building 116, Daley Road Acton ACT 2601 Australia
- National Herbarium of New South Wales The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Sydney NSW Australia
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- Western Australian Museum Perth WA 6026 Australia
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- Division of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, and Centre for Biodiversity Analysis The Australian National University Building 116, Daley Road Acton ACT 2601 Australia
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- Division of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, and Centre for Biodiversity Analysis The Australian National University Building 116, Daley Road Acton ACT 2601 Australia
- School of BioSciences The University of Melbourne Parkville VIC 3010 Australia
- Department of Sciences Museum Victoria Carlton, Melbourne VIC 3001 Australia
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- Division of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, and Centre for Biodiversity Analysis The Australian National University Building 116, Daley Road Acton ACT 2601 Australia
- Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum Sydney NSW Australia
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- Division of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, and Centre for Biodiversity Analysis The Australian National University Building 116, Daley Road Acton ACT 2601 Australia
- School of BioSciences The University of Melbourne Parkville VIC 3010 Australia
- Department of Sciences Museum Victoria Carlton, Melbourne VIC 3001 Australia
- National Collections & Marine Infrastructure, Australian National Insect Collection CSIRO Black Mountain Laboratories Acton ACT 2601 Australia
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- Division of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, and Centre for Biodiversity Analysis The Australian National University Building 116, Daley Road Acton ACT 2601 Australia
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- Division of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, and Centre for Biodiversity Analysis The Australian National University Building 116, Daley Road Acton ACT 2601 Australia
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Aubier TG, Elias M, Llaurens V, Chazot N. Mutualistic mimicry enhances species diversification through spatial segregation and extension of the ecological niche space. Evolution 2017; 71:826-844. [DOI: 10.1111/evo.13182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2016] [Accepted: 01/06/2017] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Thomas G. Aubier
- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive; CEFE - UMR 5175 - CNRS, Université de Montpellier, EPHE, Université Paul Valéry; 1919 route de Mende, F-34293 Montpellier 5 France
- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB - UMR 7205 - CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle; Sorbonne Universités; 57 rue Cuvier, CP50 F-75005 Paris France
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- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB - UMR 7205 - CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle; Sorbonne Universités; 57 rue Cuvier, CP50 F-75005 Paris France
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- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB - UMR 7205 - CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle; Sorbonne Universités; 57 rue Cuvier, CP50 F-75005 Paris France
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- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB - UMR 7205 - CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle; Sorbonne Universités; 57 rue Cuvier, CP50 F-75005 Paris France
- Department of Biology; Lund University; Lund Sweden
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