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Li D, Zhang F, Luo G, Zhang T, Lv J, Wang W, Yang J, You D, Xu N, Guo S, Yu J. Taxon-dependent effects of dispersal limitation versus environmental filters on bryophyte assemblages-Multiple perspective studies in land-bridge islands. Ecol Evol 2023; 13:e9844. [PMID: 36844668 PMCID: PMC9951200 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2022] [Revised: 01/25/2023] [Accepted: 02/03/2023] [Indexed: 02/28/2023] Open
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To explore the taxon-dependent contribution of dispersal limitation versus environmental filters to bryophyte assemblages. We investigated bryophytes and six environmental variables on 168 islands in the Thousand Island Lake,China. We compared the observed beta diversity with the expected values based on six null models (EE, EF, FE, FF, PE, and PF), detected the partial correlation of beta diversity with geographical distances. We quantified the contributions of spatial versus environmental variables and island isolation per se to species composition (SC) using variance partitioning. We modeled the species-area relationships (SARs) for bryophytes and the other eight biotas. To explore the taxon-dependent effects of spatial versus environmental filters on bryophytes, 16 taxa including five categories (total bryophytes, total mosses, liverworts, acrocarpous, and pleurocarpous mosses) and 11 species-richest families were included in the analyses. The observed beta diversity values were significantly different from the predicted values for all 16 taxa. For all five categories, the observed partial correlations between beta diversity and geographical distance after controlling environmental effects were not only positive, but also significantly different from the predicted values based on the null models. Spatial eigenvectors are more important in shaping SC than environmental variables for all 16 taxa except Brachytheciaceae and Anomodontaceae. Spatial eigenvectors contributed more to SC variation in liverworts than in mosses and in pleurocarpous mosses than in acrocarpous mosses. The effects of island isolation on SC were significant for all five categories, highly varied at the family level. The z values of the SARs for the five bryophyte categories were all larger than those of the other eight biotas. In subtropical fragmented forests, dispersal limitation exerted significant, taxon-dependent effects on bryophyte assemblages. It was dispersal limitation rather than environmental filtering that predominantly regulated the SC patterns of bryophytes.
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- Dandan Li
- College of Life SciencesShanghai Normal UniversityShanghaiChina
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- College of Life SciencesShanghai Normal UniversityShanghaiChina
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- College of Life SciencesShanghai Normal UniversityShanghaiChina
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- College of Life SciencesShanghai Normal UniversityShanghaiChina
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- College of Life SciencesShanghai Normal UniversityShanghaiChina
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- College of Life SciencesShanghai Normal UniversityShanghaiChina
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- College of Life SciencesShanghai Normal UniversityShanghaiChina
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- College of Life SciencesShanghai Normal UniversityShanghaiChina
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- College of Life SciencesShanghai Normal UniversityShanghaiChina
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- College of Life SciencesShanghai Normal UniversityShanghaiChina
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- College of Life SciencesShanghai Normal UniversityShanghaiChina
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Lang AS, Gehrmann T, Cronberg N. Genetic Diversity and Population Structure in Bryophyte With Facultative Nannandry. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:517547. [PMID: 33897717 PMCID: PMC8059434 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.517547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2019] [Accepted: 03/08/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Among plants, gender dimorphism occurs in about 10% of all angiosperms and more than 50% of all moss taxa, with dwarf males (DM) found exclusively in some unisexual mosses. In this study, we explore the role of male dwarfism as a reproductive strategy in the widespread acrocarpous moss Dicranum scoparium, which has facultative male dwarfism, having both dwarf males (DMs) and normal-sized males (NMs). We retrieved 119 SNP markers from transcriptomes which were used to genotype 403 samples from 11 sites at seven localities in southern Sweden. Our aims were to compare the genetic variability and genetic structure of sexually reproducing populations at different geographic levels (cushion, site, and locality) and compare in particular the relative contribution of females, dwarf males and normal-sized males to the observed genetic diversity. The numbers of DMs differed strongly between sites, but when present, they usually outnumbered both females and NMs. Low genetic differentiation was found at locality level. Genetic differentiation was strongest between cushions for females and NMs and within cushions for DMs indicating small scale structuring and sometimes inbreeding. NMs were more clonal than either DMs or females. Genetic diversity was similar between females and DMs, but lower for NMs. Two haplotypes were shared between females and DMs and one haplotype was shared between a DM and a NM. In conclusion, our results show that DMs and NMs play different roles in reproduction, inbreeding may occur at cushion level, but gene flow is high enough to prevent substantial genetic drift.
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- Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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Ledent A, Gauthier J, Pereira M, Overson R, Laenen B, Mardulyn P, Gradstein SR, de Haan M, Ballings P, Van der Beeten I, Zartman CE, Vanderpoorten A. What do tropical cryptogams reveal? Strong genetic structure in Amazonian bryophytes. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2020; 228:640-650. [PMID: 32488881 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2020] [Accepted: 05/25/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Lowland tropical bryophytes have been perceived as excellent dispersers. In such groups, the inverse isolation hypothesis proposes that spatial genetic structure is erased beyond the limits of short-distance dispersal. Here, we determine the influence of environmental variation and geographic barriers on the spatial genetic structure of a widely dispersed and phylogenetically independent sample of Amazonian bryophytes. Single nucleotide polymorphism data were produced from a restriction site-associated DNA sequencing protocol for 10 species and analyzed through F-statistics and Mantel tests. Neither isolation-by-environment nor the impact of geographic barriers were recovered from the analyses. However, significant isolation-by-distance patterns were observed for 8 out of the 10 investigated species beyond the scale of short-distance dispersal (> 1 km), offering evidence contrary to the inverse isolation hypothesis. Despite a cadre of life-history traits and distributional patterns suggesting that tropical bryophytes are highly vagile, our analyses reveal spatial genetic structures comparable to those documented for angiosperms, whose diaspores are orders of magnitude larger. Dispersal limitation for tropical bryophytes flies in the face of traditional assumptions regarding their dispersal potential, and suggests that the plight of this component of cryptic biodiversity is more dire than previously considered in light of accelerated forest fragmentation in the Amazon.
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- Alice Ledent
- Institute of Botany, University of Liège, B22 Sart Tilman, Liège, 4000, Belgium
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- Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, route de Malagnou 1, Genève, 1208, Switzerland
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- Department of Biodiversity, National Institute for Amazonian Research, Petrópolis, CEP 69060-001, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85281, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Science for Life laboratory, Stockholm University, Stockholm, 106 91, Sweden
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- Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, 1050, Belgium
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- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, EPHE, Sorbonne Université, CP 39, 57 rue Cuvier, Paris, F-75005, France
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- Research Department, Meise Botanic Garden, Meise, 1860, Belgium
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- Research Department, Meise Botanic Garden, Meise, 1860, Belgium
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- Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, route de Malagnou 1, Genève, 1208, Switzerland
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- Institute of Botany, University of Liège, B22 Sart Tilman, Liège, 4000, Belgium
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Laenen B, Patiño J, Hagborg A, Désamoré A, Wang J, Shaw AJ, Goffinet B, Vanderpoorten A. Evolutionary origin of the latitudinal diversity gradient in liverworts. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2018; 127:606-612. [PMID: 29890223 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2017] [Revised: 06/02/2018] [Accepted: 06/04/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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A latitudinal diversity gradient towards the tropics appears as one most recurrent patterns in ecology, but the mechanisms underlying this pattern remain an area of controversy. In angiosperms, the tropical conservatism hypothesis proposes that most groups originated in the tropics and are adapted to a tropical climatic regime, and that relatively few species have evolved physiological adaptations to cold, dry or unpredictable climates. This mechanism is, however, unlikely to apply across land plants, and in particular, to liverworts, a group of about 7500 species, whose ability to withstand cold much better than their tracheophyte counterparts is at odds with the tropical conservatism hypothesis. Molecular dating, diversification rate analyses and ancestral area reconstructions were employed to explore the evolutionary mechanisms that account for the latitudinal diversity gradient in liverworts. As opposed to angiosperms, tropical liverwort genera are not older than their extra-tropical counterparts (median stem age of tropical and extra-tropical liverwort genera of 24.35 ± 39.65 Ma and 39.57 ± 49.07 Ma, respectively), weakening the 'time for speciation hypothesis'. Models of ancestral area reconstructions with equal migration rates between tropical and extra-tropical regions outperformed models with asymmetrical migration rates in either direction. The symmetry and intensity of migrations between tropical and extra-tropical regions suggested by the lack of resolution in ancestral area reconstructions towards the deepest nodes are at odds with the tropical niche conservatism hypothesis. In turn, tropical genera exhibited significantly higher net diversification rates than extra-tropical ones, suggesting that the observed latitudinal diversity gradient results from either higher extinction rates in extra-tropical lineages or higher speciation rates in the tropics. We discuss a series of experiments to help deciphering the underlying evolutionary mechanisms.
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- Benjamin Laenen
- Department of Ecology, Environment, and Plant Sciences, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm University, Sweden
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- Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group, Instituto de Productos Naturales and Agrobiología (IPNA-CSIC), La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain; Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Environment, and Plant Sciences, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm University, Sweden
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- Bryology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, 500 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
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- National Fund for Scientific Research at University of Liege, Institute of Botany, Belgium.
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Baughman JT, Payton AC, Paasch AE, Fisher KM, McDaniel SF. Multiple factors influence population sex ratios in the Mojave Desert moss Syntrichia caninervis. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2017; 104:733-742. [PMID: 28490519 DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1700045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2017] [Accepted: 03/27/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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PREMISE OF RESEARCH Natural populations of many mosses appear highly female-biased based on the presence of reproductive structures. This bias could be caused by increased male mortality, lower male growth rate, or a higher threshold for achieving sexual maturity in males. Here we test these hypotheses using samples from two populations of the Mojave Desert moss Syntrichia caninervis. METHODS We used double-digest restriction-site associated DNA (RAD) sequencing to identify candidate sex-associated loci in a panel of sex-expressing plants. Next, we used putative sex-associated markers to identify the sex of individuals without sex structures. KEY RESULTS We found a 17:1 patch-level phenotypic female to male sex ratio in the higher elevation site (Wrightwood) and no sex expression at the low elevation site (Phelan). In contrast, on the basis of genetic data, we found a 2:1 female bias at the Wrightwood site and only females at the Phelan site. The relative area occupied by male and female genets was indistinguishable, but males were less genetically diverse. CONCLUSIONS Our data suggest that both male-biased mortality and sexual dimorphism in thresholds for sex expression could explain genetic and phenotypic sex ratio biases and that phenotypic sex expression alone over-estimates the extent of actual sex ratio bias present in these two populations of S. caninervis.
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- Jenna T Baughman
- Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, California 90032 USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Florida, 876 Newell Drive, Gainesville, Florida 32611 USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, California 90032 USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, California 90032 USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Florida, 876 Newell Drive, Gainesville, Florida 32611 USA
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Pisa S, Vanderpoorten A, Patiño J, Werner O, González-Mancebo JM, Ros RM. How to define nativeness in vagile organisms: lessons from the cosmopolitan moss Bryum argenteum on the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands). PLANT BIOLOGY (STUTTGART, GERMANY) 2015; 17:1057-1065. [PMID: 25980839 DOI: 10.1111/plb.12348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2015] [Accepted: 05/13/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The distinction between native and introduced biotas presents unique challenges that culminate in organisms with high long-distance dispersal capacities in a rapidly changing world. Bryophytes, in particular, exhibit large distribution ranges, and some species can truly be qualified as cosmopolitan. Cosmopolitan species, however, typically occur in disturbed environments, raising the question of their nativeness throughout their range. Here, we employ genetic data to address the question of the origin of the cosmopolitan, weedy moss Bryum argenteum on the island of Tenerife. The genetic diversity of B. argenteum on Tenerife was comparable to that found in continental areas due to recurrent colonisation events, erasing any signature of a bottleneck that would be expected in the case of a recent colonisation event. The molecular dating analyses indicated that the first colonisation of the island took place more than 100,000 years ago, i.e. well before the first human settlements. Furthermore, the significant signal for isolation-by-distance found in B. argenteum within Tenerife points to the substantial role of genetic drift in establishing the observed patterns of genetic variation. Together, the results support the hypothesis that B. argenteum is native on Tenerife; although the existence of haplotypes shared between Tenerife and continental areas suggests that more recent, potentially man-mediated introduction also took place. While defining nativeness in organisms that are not deliberately introduced, and wherein the fossil record is extremely scarce, is an exceedingly challenging task, our results suggest that population genetic analyses can represent a useful tool to help distinguish native from alien populations.
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- S Pisa
- Departamento de Biología Vegetal, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- Institute of Botany, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
- Departamento de Biología Vegetal, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Vegetal, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Vegetal, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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Patiño J, Carine M, Mardulyn P, Devos N, Mateo RG, González-Mancebo JM, Shaw AJ, Vanderpoorten A. Approximate Bayesian Computation Reveals the Crucial Role of Oceanic Islands for the Assembly of Continental Biodiversity. Syst Biol 2015; 64:579-89. [DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syv013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2014] [Accepted: 02/14/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Mikulášková E, Hájek M, Veleba A, Johnson MG, Hájek T, Shaw JA. Local adaptations in bryophytes revisited: the genetic structure of the calcium-tolerant peatmoss Sphagnum warnstorfii along geographic and pH gradients. Ecol Evol 2014; 5:229-42. [PMID: 25628880 PMCID: PMC4298450 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2014] [Revised: 11/20/2014] [Accepted: 11/21/2014] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Bryophytes dominate some ecosystems despite their extraordinary sensitivity to habitat quality. Nevertheless, some species behave differently across various regions. The existence of local adaptations is questioned by a high dispersal ability, which is thought to redistribute genetic variability among populations. Although Sphagnum warnstorfii is an important ecosystem engineer in fen peatlands, the causes of its rather wide niche along the pH/calcium gradient are poorly understood. Here, we studied the genetic variability of its global populations, with a detailed focus on the wide pH/calcium gradient in Central Europe. Principal coordinates analysis of 12 polymorphic microsatellite loci revealed a significant gradient coinciding with water pH, but independent of geography; even samples from the same fens were clearly separated along this gradient. However, most of the genetic variations remained unexplained, possibly because of the introgression from phylogenetically allied species. This explanation is supported by the small heterogeneous cluster of samples that appeared when populations morphologically transitional to S. subnites, S. rubellum, or S. russowii were included into the analysis. Alternatively, this unexplained variation might be attributed to a legacy of glacial refugia with recently dissolved ecological and biogeographic consequences. Isolation by distance appeared at the smallest scale only (up to 43 km). Negative spatial correlations occurred more frequently, mainly at long distances (up to 950 km), implying a genetic similarity among samples which are very distant geographically. Our results confirm the high dispersal ability of peatmosses, but simultaneously suggested that their ability to cope with a high pH/calcium level is at least partially determined genetically, perhaps via specific physiological mechanisms or a hummock-forming ability.
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- Eva Mikulášková
- Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University Kotlářská 2, Brno, CZ 61137, Czech Republic
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- Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University Kotlářská 2, Brno, CZ 61137, Czech Republic ; Department of Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Lidická 25/27, Brno, CZ 65720, Czech Republic
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- Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University Kotlářská 2, Brno, CZ 61137, Czech Republic
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- Plant Science and Conservation, Chicago Botanic Gardens 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL, 60022, USA
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- Department of Functional Ecology, Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Dukelská 135, Třeboň, CZ 37982, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biology, Duke University Durham, NC, 27708, USA
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Hedenäs L, Bisang I. Infraspecific diversity in a spore-dispersed species with limited distribution range. SYST BIODIVERS 2014. [DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2014.968234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Aranda SC, Gabriel R, Borges PAV, Santos AMC, de Azevedo EB, Patiño J, Hortal J, Lobo JM. Geographical, temporal and environmental determinants of bryophyte species richness in the Macaronesian islands. PLoS One 2014; 9:e101786. [PMID: 25003186 PMCID: PMC4086965 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2014] [Accepted: 06/11/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Species richness on oceanic islands has been related to a series of ecological factors including island size and isolation (i.e. the Equilibrium Model of Island Biogeography, EMIB), habitat diversity, climate (i.e., temperature and precipitation) and more recently island ontogeny (i.e. the General Dynamic Model of oceanic island biogeography, GDM). Here we evaluate the relationship of these factors with the diversity of bryophytes in the Macaronesian region (Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands and Cape Verde). The predictive power of EMIB, habitat diversity, climate and the GDM on total bryophyte richness, as well as moss and liverwort richness (the two dominant bryophyte groups), was evaluated through ordinary least squares regressions. After choosing the best subset of variables using inference statistics, we used partial regression analyses to identify the independent and shared effects of each model. The variables included within each model were similar for mosses and liverworts, with orographic mist layer being one of the most important predictors of richness. Models combining climate with either the GDM or habitat diversity explained most of richness variation (up to 91%). There was a high portion of shared variance between all pairwise combinations of factors in mosses, while in liverworts around half of the variability in species richness was accounted for exclusively by climate. Our results suggest that the effects of climate and habitat are strong and prevalent in this region, while geographical factors have limited influence on Macaronesian bryophyte diversity. Although climate is of great importance for liverwort richness, in mosses its effect is similar to or, at least, indiscernible from the effect of habitat diversity and, strikingly, the effect of island ontogeny. These results indicate that for highly vagile taxa on oceanic islands, the dispersal process may be less important for successful colonization than the availability of suitable ecological conditions during the establishment phase.
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- Silvia C. Aranda
- Departamento de Biogeografía y Cambio Global, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain
- Azorean Biodiversity Group and Platform for Enhancing Ecological Research & Sustainability, Departamento de Ciências Agrárias, Universidade dos Açores, Angra do Heroísmo, Açores, Portugal
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- Azorean Biodiversity Group and Platform for Enhancing Ecological Research & Sustainability, Departamento de Ciências Agrárias, Universidade dos Açores, Angra do Heroísmo, Açores, Portugal
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- Azorean Biodiversity Group and Platform for Enhancing Ecological Research & Sustainability, Departamento de Ciências Agrárias, Universidade dos Açores, Angra do Heroísmo, Açores, Portugal
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- Departamento de Biogeografía y Cambio Global, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain
- Azorean Biodiversity Group and Platform for Enhancing Ecological Research & Sustainability, Departamento de Ciências Agrárias, Universidade dos Açores, Angra do Heroísmo, Açores, Portugal
- Centro de Biologia Ambiental and Platform for Enhancing Ecological Research & Sustainability, Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Centro do Clima, Meteorologia e Mudanças Globais, Departamento de Ciências Agrárias, Universidade dos Açores, Angra do Heroísmo, Açores, Portugal
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- Azorean Biodiversity Group and Platform for Enhancing Ecological Research & Sustainability, Departamento de Ciências Agrárias, Universidade dos Açores, Angra do Heroísmo, Açores, Portugal
- Institute of Botany, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
- Departmento de Biología Vegetal, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
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- Departamento de Biogeografía y Cambio Global, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Biologia Ambiental and Platform for Enhancing Ecological Research & Sustainability, Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Departamento de Biogeografía y Cambio Global, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain
- Azorean Biodiversity Group and Platform for Enhancing Ecological Research & Sustainability, Departamento de Ciências Agrárias, Universidade dos Açores, Angra do Heroísmo, Açores, Portugal
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Patiño J, Carine M, Fernández-Palacios JM, Otto R, Schaefer H, Vanderpoorten A. The anagenetic world of spore-producing land plants. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2014; 201:305-311. [PMID: 24010958 DOI: 10.1111/nph.12480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2013] [Accepted: 07/30/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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A fundamental challenge to our understanding of biodiversity is to explain why some groups of species diversify, whereas others do not. On islands, the gradual evolution of a new species from a founder event has been called 'anagenetic speciation'. This process does not lead to rapid and extensive speciation within lineages and has received little attention. Based on a survey of the endemic bryophyte, pteridophyte and spermatophyte floras of nine oceanic archipelagos, we show that anagenesis, as measured by the proportion of genera with single endemic species within a genus, is much higher in bryophytes (73%) and pteridophytes (65%) than in spermatophytes (55%). Anagenesis contributed 49% of bryophyte and 40% of endemic pteridophyte species, but only 17% of spermatophytes. The vast majority of endemic bryophytes and pteridophytes are restricted to subtropical evergreen laurel forests and failed to diversify in more open environments, in contrast with the pattern exhibited by spermatophytes. We propose that the dominance of anagenesis in island bryophytes and pteridophytes is a result of a mixture of intrinsic factors, notably their strong preference for (sub)tropical forest environments, and extrinsic factors, including the long-term macro-ecological stability of these habitats and the associated strong phylogenetic niche conservatism of their floras.
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- Jairo Patiño
- Institute of Botany, University of Liège, 4000, Liège, Belgium
- Departmento de Ciências Agrárias, Azorean Biodiversity Group (CITA-A) and Platform for Enhancing Ecological Research & Sustainability (PEERS), Universidade dos Açores, 9700-042 Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira, Açores, Portugal
- Departmento de Biología Vegetal, Universidad de La Laguna, 38206, Tenerife, Spain
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- Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, UK
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- Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de La Laguna, 38206, Tenerife, Spain
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- Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Plant Biodiversity Research, Maximus-von-Imhof Forum 2, 85354, Freising, Germany
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- Institute of Botany, University of Liège, 4000, Liège, Belgium
- Departmento de Ciências Agrárias, Azorean Biodiversity Group (CITA-A) and Platform for Enhancing Ecological Research & Sustainability (PEERS), Universidade dos Açores, 9700-042 Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira, Açores, Portugal
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Pisa S, Werner O, Vanderpoorten A, Magdy M, Ros RM. Elevational patterns of genetic variation in the cosmopolitan moss Bryum argenteum (Bryaceae). AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2013; 100:2000-2008. [PMID: 24091785 DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1300100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY The Baas Becking tenet posits that 'everything is everywhere, but the environment selects' to explain cosmopolitan distributions in highly vagile taxa. Bryophyte species show wider distributions than vascular plants and include examples of truly cosmopolitan ranges, which have been interpreted as a result of high dispersal capacities and ecological plasticity. In the current study, we documented patterns of genetic structure and diversity in the cosmopolitan moss Bryum argenteum along an elevational gradient to determine if genetic diversity and structure is homogenized by intense migrations in the lack of ecological differentiation. • METHODS 60 specimens were collected in the Sierra Nevada Mountains (Spain) between 100 and 2870 m and sequenced for ITS and rps4. Comparative analyses, genetic diversity estimators, and Mantel's tests were employed to determine the relationship between genetic variation, elevation, and geographic distance and to look for signs of demographic shifts. • KEY RESULTS Genetic diversity peaked above 1900 m and no signs of demographic shifts were detected at any elevation. There was a strong phylogenetic component in elevational variation. Genetic variation was significantly correlated with elevation, but not with geographic distance. • CONCLUSIONS The results point to the long-term persistence of Bryum argenteum in a range that was glaciated during the Late Pleistocene. Evidence for an environmentally driven pattern of genetic differentiation suggests adaptive divergence. This supports the Baas Becking tenet and indicates that ecological specialization might play a key role in explaining patterns of genetic structure in cosmopolitan mosses.
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- Sergio Pisa
- Departamento de Biología Vegetal (Botánica), Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo 30100 Murcia, Spain
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Korpelainen H, von Cräutlein M, Kostamo K, Virtanen V. Spatial genetic structure of aquatic bryophytes in a connected lake system. PLANT BIOLOGY (STUTTGART, GERMANY) 2013; 15:514-521. [PMID: 23016754 DOI: 10.1111/j.1438-8677.2012.00660.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Using genetic markers, we investigated the genetic structure of three clonal aquatic moss species, Calliergon megalophyllum Mikut., Fontinalis antipyretica Hedw. and F. hypnoides Hartm. on two scales: among populations in a connected lake system (large-scale spatial genetic structure) and among individuals within populations (fine-scale spatial genetic structure). Mean genetic diversities per population were 0.138, 0.247 and 0.271, respectively, and total diversities equalled 0.223, 0.385 and 0.421, respectively. Relative differentiation levels (FST values of 0.173, 0.280 and 0.142, respectively) were significant but showed that there is a moderate amount of gene flow taking place within the lake system connected with narrow streams. Bayesian STRUCTURE analysis provided some indication that the direction of water flow influences population genetic structuring in the studied aquatic mosses. We propose that dispersal leading to gene flow in C. megalophyllum, F. antipyretica and F. hypnoides takes place both along water via connecting streams and by animal vectors, such as waterfowl. Nevertheless, the slight genetic structuring pattern along the direction of water flow suggests that dispersal of shoots or their fragments along water is a means of dispersal in these mosses. The absence of sexual reproduction and spores may have caused the observed spatial genetic structure within populations, including aggregations of similar genotypes (clones or closely related genotypes) at short distances in populations otherwise showing an isolation by distance effect. Regardless of the results pointing to the dominance of vegetative propagation, it is impossible to completely rule out the potential role of rare long-distance spore dispersal from areas where the species are fertile.
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- H Korpelainen
- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland.
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Désamoré A, Laenen B, Stech M, Papp B, Hedenäs L, Mateo RG, Vanderpoorten A. How do temperate bryophytes face the challenge of a changing environment? Lessons from the past and predictions for the future. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2012; 18:2915-2924. [PMID: 24501067 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02752.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2012] [Revised: 04/21/2012] [Accepted: 05/08/2012] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Bryophytes are a group of early land plants, whose specific ecophysiological and biological features, including poikilohydry, sensitivity to moderately high temperature and high dispersal ability, make them ideal candidates for investigating the impact of climate changes. Employing a combined approach of species distribution modelling (SDM) and molecular phylogeography in the temperate moss Homalothecium sericeum, we explore the significance of the Mediterranean refugia, contrasting the southern and northern refugia hypotheses, determine the extent to which recolonization of previously glaciated areas has been facilitated by the high dispersal ability of the species and make predictions on the extent to which it will be impacted by ongoing climate change. The Mediterranean areas exhibit the highest nucleotidic diversities and host a mixture of ancestral, endemic and more recently derived haplotypes. Extra-Mediterranean areas exhibit low genetic diversities and Euro-Siberian populations display a significant signal of expansion that is identified to be of Euro-Siberian origin, pointing to the northern refugia hypothesis. The SDMs predict a global net increase in range size owing to ongoing climate change, but substantial range reductions in southern areas. Presence of a significant phylogeographical signal at different spatial scales suggests, however, that dispersal limitations might constitute, as opposed to the traditional view of spore-producing plants as efficient dispersers, a constraint for migration. This casts doubts about the ability of the species to face the massive extinctions predicted in the southern areas, threatening their status of reservoir of genetic diversity.
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Hutsemékers V, Szövényi P, Shaw AJ, González-Mancebo JM, Muñoz J, Vanderpoorten A. Oceanic islands are not sinks of biodiversity in spore-producing plants. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2011; 108:18989-94. [PMID: 22084108 PMCID: PMC3223459 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1109119108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Islands have traditionally been considered as migratory and evolutionary dead ends for two main reasons: island colonizers are typically assumed to lose their dispersal power, and continental back colonization has been regarded as unlikely because of niche preemption. The hypothesis that islands might actually represent dynamic refugia and migratory stepping stones for species that are effective dispersers, and in particular, for spore-producing plants, is formally tested here, using the archipelagos of the Azores, Canary Islands, and Madeira, as a model. Population genetic analyses based on nuclear microsatellite variation indicate that dispersal ability of the moss Platyhypnidium riparioides does not decrease in the island setting. The analyses further show that, unlike island populations, mainland (southwestern Europe and North Africa) populations underwent a severe bottleneck during the last glacial maximum (LGM). Our results thus refute the traditional view of islands as the end of the colonization road and point to a different perception of North Atlantic archipelagos as major sources of biodiversity for the postglacial recolonization of Europe by spore-producing plants.
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- Virginie Hutsemékers
- Institut de Botanique, Université de Liège, B22 Sart Tilman, B-4000 Liège1, Belgium.
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