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Chauvier-Mendes Y, Pollock LJ, Verburg PH, Karger DN, Pellissier L, Lavergne S, Zimmermann NE, Thuiller W. Transnational conservation to anticipate future plant shifts in Europe. Nat Ecol Evol 2024; 8:454-466. [PMID: 38253754 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02287-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2023] [Accepted: 11/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/24/2024]
Abstract
To meet the COP15 biodiversity framework in the European Union (EU), one target is to protect 30% of its land by 2030 through a resilient transnational conservation network. The European Alps are a key hub of this network hosting some of the most extensive natural areas and biodiversity hotspots in Europe. Here we assess the robustness of the current European reserve network to safeguard the European Alps' flora by 2080 using semi-mechanistic simulations. We first highlight that the current network needs strong readjustments as it does not capture biodiversity patterns as well as our conservation simulations. Overall, we predict a strong shift in conservation need through time along latitudes, and from lower to higher elevations as plants migrate upslope and shrink their distribution. While increasing species, trait and evolutionary diversity, migration could also threaten 70% of the resident flora. In the face of global changes, the future European reserve network will need to ensure strong elevation and latitudinal connections to complementarily protect multifaceted biodiversity beyond national borders.
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- Yohann Chauvier-Mendes
- Swiss Federal Research Institute (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
- Department of Environmental Systems Science, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
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- Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Quebec
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland
- Environmental Geography Group, Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland
- Department of Environmental Systems Science, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, LECA, CNRS, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, Grenoble, France
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland
- Department of Environmental Systems Science, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, LECA, CNRS, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, Grenoble, France
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Antunes AC, Berti E, Brose U, Hirt MR, Karger DN, O'Connor LMJ, Pollock LJ, Thuiller W, Gauzens B. Linking biodiversity, ecosystem function, and Nature's contributions to people: a macroecological energy flux perspective. Trends Ecol Evol 2024:S0169-5347(24)00004-1. [PMID: 38310065 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2024.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2023] [Revised: 01/05/2024] [Accepted: 01/15/2024] [Indexed: 02/05/2024]
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At macroecological scales, the provision of Nature's contributions to people (NCP) is mostly estimated with biophysical information, ignoring the ecological processes underlying them. This hinders our ability to properly quantify the impact of declining biodiversity and the provision of NCP. Here, we propose a framework that combines local-scale food web energy flux approaches and large-scale biodiversity models to evaluate ecosystem functions and flux-related NCP at extensive spatiotemporal scales. Importantly, this approach has the potential to upscale ecosystem functions, assess the vulnerability of flux-related NCP to the climate crisis, and support the development of multiscale mitigation policies.
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- Ana Carolina Antunes
- Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany; EcoNetLab, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Puschstrasse 4, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
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- Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany; EcoNetLab, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Puschstrasse 4, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany; EcoNetLab, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Puschstrasse 4, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany; EcoNetLab, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Puschstrasse 4, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- University of Grenoble Alpes, University of Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Biology Department, McGill University, 1205 Docteur Penfield, Montréal, QC, H3A 1B1, Canada
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- University of Grenoble Alpes, University of Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany; EcoNetLab, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Puschstrasse 4, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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Dauphin B, Rellstab C, Wüest RO, Karger DN, Holderegger R, Gugerli F, Manel S. Re-thinking the environment in landscape genomics. Trends Ecol Evol 2023; 38:261-274. [PMID: 36402651 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2022.10.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2022] [Revised: 10/20/2022] [Accepted: 10/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
Abstract
Detecting the extrinsic selective pressures shaping genomic variation is critical for a better understanding of adaptation and for forecasting evolutionary responses of natural populations to changing environmental conditions. With increasing availability of geo-referenced environmental data, landscape genomics provides unprecedented insights into how genomic variation and underlying gene functions affect traits potentially under selection. Yet, the robustness of genotype-environment associations used in landscape genomics remains tempered due to various limitations, including the characteristics of environmental data used, sampling designs employed, and statistical frameworks applied. Here, we argue that using complementary or new environmental data sources and well-informed sampling designs may help improve the detection of selective pressures underlying patterns of local adaptation in various organisms and environments.
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- Benjamin Dauphin
- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland; Institute of Integrative Biology (IBZ), ETH, Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland; CEFE, University of Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE-PSL University, IRD, 34000 Montpellier, France; Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
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Garcés-Pastor S, Coissac E, Lavergne S, Schwörer C, Theurillat JP, Heintzman PD, Wangensteen OS, Tinner W, Rey F, Heer M, Rutzer A, Walsh K, Lammers Y, Brown AG, Goslar T, Rijal DP, Karger DN, Pellissier L, Heiri O, Alsos IG. High resolution ancient sedimentary DNA shows that alpine plant diversity is associated with human land use and climate change. Nat Commun 2022; 13:6559. [PMID: 36333301 PMCID: PMC9636257 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34010-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2021] [Accepted: 10/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The European Alps are highly rich in species, but their future may be threatened by ongoing changes in human land use and climate. Here, we reconstructed vegetation, temperature, human impact and livestock over the past ~12,000 years from Lake Sulsseewli, based on sedimentary ancient plant and mammal DNA, pollen, spores, chironomids, and microcharcoal. We assembled a highly-complete local DNA reference library (PhyloAlps, 3923 plant taxa), and used this to obtain an exceptionally rich sedaDNA record of 366 plant taxa. Vegetation mainly responded to climate during the early Holocene, while human activity had an additional influence on vegetation from 6 ka onwards. Land-use shifted from episodic grazing during the Neolithic and Bronze Age to agropastoralism in the Middle Ages. Associated human deforestation allowed the coexistence of plant species typically found at different elevational belts, leading to levels of plant richness that characterise the current high diversity of this region. Our findings indicate a positive association between low intensity agropastoral activities and precipitation with the maintenance of the unique subalpine and alpine plant diversity of the European Alps.
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- Sandra Garcés-Pastor
- grid.10919.300000000122595234The Arctic University Museum of Norway, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, NO-9037 Tromsø, Norway
| | - Eric Coissac
- grid.462909.00000 0004 0609 8934Université Grenoble-Alpes, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA, 38000 Grenoble, Rhône-Alpes France
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- grid.462909.00000 0004 0609 8934Université Grenoble-Alpes, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA, 38000 Grenoble, Rhône-Alpes France
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- grid.5734.50000 0001 0726 5157Palaeoecology, Institute of Plant Sciences & Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, 3013 Bern, Switzerland
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- grid.8591.50000 0001 2322 4988Fondation Aubert, 1938 Champex-Lac, Switzerland, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Geneva, 1292 Chambésy, Switzerland
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- grid.10919.300000000122595234The Arctic University Museum of Norway, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, NO-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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- grid.10919.300000000122595234Norwegian College of Fishery Science, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway ,grid.5841.80000 0004 1937 0247Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences and Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBIO), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia Spain
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- grid.5734.50000 0001 0726 5157Palaeoecology, Institute of Plant Sciences & Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, 3013 Bern, Switzerland
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- grid.6612.30000 0004 1937 0642Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- grid.6612.30000 0004 1937 0642Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- grid.6612.30000 0004 1937 0642Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- grid.5685.e0000 0004 1936 9668Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, 11 YO1 7EP UK
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- grid.10919.300000000122595234The Arctic University Museum of Norway, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, NO-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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- grid.10919.300000000122595234The Arctic University Museum of Norway, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, NO-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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- grid.5633.30000 0001 2097 3545Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, 61-680 Poznań, Poland
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- grid.10919.300000000122595234The Arctic University Museum of Norway, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, NO-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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- grid.419754.a0000 0001 2259 5533Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research (WSL), Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- grid.5801.c0000 0001 2156 2780Department of Environmental System Science, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland ,grid.419754.a0000 0001 2259 5533Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- grid.6612.30000 0004 1937 0642Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- grid.10919.300000000122595234The Arctic University Museum of Norway, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, NO-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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Oehri J, Schaepman-Strub G, Kim JS, Grysko R, Kropp H, Grünberg I, Zemlianskii V, Sonnentag O, Euskirchen ES, Reji Chacko M, Muscari G, Blanken PD, Dean JF, di Sarra A, Harding RJ, Sobota I, Kutzbach L, Plekhanova E, Riihelä A, Boike J, Miller NB, Beringer J, López-Blanco E, Stoy PC, Sullivan RC, Kejna M, Parmentier FJW, Gamon JA, Mastepanov M, Wille C, Jackowicz-Korczynski M, Karger DN, Quinton WL, Putkonen J, van As D, Christensen TR, Hakuba MZ, Stone RS, Metzger S, Vandecrux B, Frost GV, Wild M, Hansen B, Meloni D, Domine F, te Beest M, Sachs T, Kalhori A, Rocha AV, Williamson SN, Morris S, Atchley AL, Essery R, Runkle BRK, Holl D, Riihimaki LD, Iwata H, Schuur EAG, Cox CJ, Grachev AA, McFadden JP, Fausto RS, Göckede M, Ueyama M, Pirk N, de Boer G, Bret-Harte MS, Leppäranta M, Steffen K, Friborg T, Ohmura A, Edgar CW, Olofsson J, Chambers SD. Vegetation type is an important predictor of the arctic summer land surface energy budget. Nat Commun 2022; 13:6379. [PMID: 36316310 PMCID: PMC9622844 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34049-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2022] [Accepted: 10/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
Abstract
Despite the importance of high-latitude surface energy budgets (SEBs) for land-climate interactions in the rapidly changing Arctic, uncertainties in their prediction persist. Here, we harmonize SEB observations across a network of vegetated and glaciated sites at circumpolar scale (1994-2021). Our variance-partitioning analysis identifies vegetation type as an important predictor for SEB-components during Arctic summer (June-August), compared to other SEB-drivers including climate, latitude and permafrost characteristics. Differences among vegetation types can be of similar magnitude as between vegetation and glacier surfaces and are especially high for summer sensible and latent heat fluxes. The timing of SEB-flux summer-regimes (when daily mean values exceed 0 Wm-2) relative to snow-free and -onset dates varies substantially depending on vegetation type, implying vegetation controls on snow-cover and SEB-flux seasonality. Our results indicate complex shifts in surface energy fluxes with land-cover transitions and a lengthening summer season, and highlight the potential for improving future Earth system models via a refined representation of Arctic vegetation types.
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- Jacqueline Oehri
- grid.7400.30000 0004 1937 0650Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland ,grid.14709.3b0000 0004 1936 8649Department of Biology, McGill University, 1205 Docteur Penfield, H3A 1B1 Montreal, QC Canada
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- grid.7400.30000 0004 1937 0650Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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- grid.7400.30000 0004 1937 0650Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland ,grid.35030.350000 0004 1792 6846Low-Carbon and Climate Impact Research Centre, School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Ave, Kowloon Tong, Hongkong, People’s Republic of China
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- grid.7400.30000 0004 1937 0650Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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- grid.256766.60000 0004 1936 7881Environmental Studies Program, Hamilton College, 198 College Hill Rd, Clinton, NY USA
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- grid.10894.340000 0001 1033 7684Permafrost Research Section, Alfred-Wegener Institute, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam Germany
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- grid.7400.30000 0004 1937 0650Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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- grid.14848.310000 0001 2292 3357Département de géographie, Université de Montréal, 2900 Edouard Montpetit Blvd, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4 Canada
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- grid.70738.3b0000 0004 1936 981XInstitute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2140 Koyukuk Dr, Fairbanks, AK USA
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- grid.7400.30000 0004 1937 0650Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland ,grid.5801.c0000 0001 2156 2780Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zurich, CHN, Universitätstrasse 16, 8006 Zurich, Switzerland ,grid.419754.a0000 0001 2259 5533Land Change Science Unit, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, ZH Switzerland
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- grid.410348.a0000 0001 2300 5064Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Via di Vigna Murata, 605 Rome, Italy
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- grid.266190.a0000000096214564Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO USA
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- grid.5337.20000 0004 1936 7603School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, University Rd, Bristol, UK
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- grid.5196.b0000 0000 9864 2490Department for Sustainability, ENEA, Via Enrico Fermi 45, Frascati, Italy
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- grid.494924.60000 0001 1089 2266UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), MacLean Bldg, Benson Ln, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, UK
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- grid.5374.50000 0001 0943 6490Department of Hydrology and Water Management, Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Lwowska, 87-100 Toruń Poland
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- grid.9026.d0000 0001 2287 2617Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), University of Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
| | - Elena Plekhanova
- grid.7400.30000 0004 1937 0650Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
| | - Aku Riihelä
- grid.8657.c0000 0001 2253 8678Finnish Meteorological Institute, Erik Palménin aukio 1, 00560 Helsinki, Finland
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- grid.10894.340000 0001 1033 7684Permafrost Research Section, Alfred-Wegener Institute, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam Germany ,grid.7468.d0000 0001 2248 7639Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- grid.14003.360000 0001 2167 3675University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI USA
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- grid.1012.20000 0004 1936 7910School of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, WA 6009 WA Australia
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- grid.424543.00000 0001 0741 5039Department of Environment and Minerals, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Kivioq 2, Nuuk, 3900 Greenland ,grid.7048.b0000 0001 1956 2722Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Nordre Ringgade 1, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- grid.14003.360000 0001 2167 3675University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI USA
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- grid.187073.a0000 0001 1939 4845Environmental Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S Cass Ave, Lemont, IL USA
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- grid.5374.50000 0001 0943 6490Department of Meteorology and Climatology, Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Lwowska, 87-100 Toruń Poland
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- grid.5510.10000 0004 1936 8921Center for Biogeochemistry of the Anthropocene, Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Sem Sælands vei 1, 0371 Oslo, Norway ,grid.4514.40000 0001 0930 2361Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Geocentrum II, Sölvegatan 12, 223 62 Lund, Sweden
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- grid.24434.350000 0004 1937 0060University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 1400 R St, Lincoln, NE USA
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- grid.7048.b0000 0001 1956 2722Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Nordre Ringgade 1, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark ,grid.10858.340000 0001 0941 4873Oulanka Research Station, University of Oulu, Pentti Kaiteran katu 1, 90570 Oulu, Finland
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- grid.23731.340000 0000 9195 2461GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam Germany
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- grid.7048.b0000 0001 1956 2722Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Nordre Ringgade 1, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark ,grid.4514.40000 0001 0930 2361Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Geocentrum II, Sölvegatan 12, 223 62 Lund, Sweden
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- grid.419754.a0000 0001 2259 5533Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research (WSL), Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, ZH Switzerland
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- grid.268252.90000 0001 1958 9263Cold Regions Research Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON Canada
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- grid.266862.e0000 0004 1936 8163Harold Hamm School of Geology and Geological Engineering, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND USA
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- grid.13508.3f0000 0001 1017 5662Department of Glaciology and Climate, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- grid.7048.b0000 0001 1956 2722Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Nordre Ringgade 1, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark ,grid.10858.340000 0001 0941 4873Oulanka Research Station, University of Oulu, Pentti Kaiteran katu 1, 90570 Oulu, Finland
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- grid.20861.3d0000000107068890Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CalTech, 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA USA
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- grid.423024.30000 0000 8485 3852NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO USA
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- grid.422235.00000 0004 6483 1479National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle, 1685 38th St #100, Boulder, CO USA ,grid.14003.360000 0001 2167 3675Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1225 W Dayton St, Madison, WI USA
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- grid.13508.3f0000 0001 1017 5662Department of Glaciology and Climate, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- grid.487865.00000 0004 5928 6410Alaska Biological Research, Inc, 2842 Goldstream Rd, Fairbanks, AK USA
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- grid.5801.c0000 0001 2156 2780Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, CHN, Universitätstrasse 16, 8006 Zurich, Switzerland
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- grid.5254.60000 0001 0674 042XDepartment of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 23, 1958 Frederiksberg, Denmark
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- grid.5196.b0000 0000 9864 2490Department for Sustainability, ENEA, Lungotevere Grande Ammiraglio Thaon di Revel, 76, Rome, Italy
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- grid.23856.3a0000 0004 1936 8390Department of Chemistry, Université Laval, Pavillon Alexandre-Vachon, 1045 Av. de la Médecine, G1V 0A6 Québec, QC Canada ,grid.23856.3a0000 0004 1936 8390Takuvik Laboratory, CNRS-INSU, Département de Biologie, Université Laval, Pavillon Alexandre-Vachon, 1045 Av. de la Médecine, G1V 0A6 Québec, QC Canada
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- grid.5477.10000000120346234Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Vening Meinesz Building, Princetonlaan 8a, 3584 CB Utrecht, The Netherlands ,grid.412139.c0000 0001 2191 3608Centre for African Conservation Ecology, Nelson Mandela University, University Way, Summerstrand, Gqeberha, 6019 Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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- grid.23731.340000 0000 9195 2461GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam Germany
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- grid.23731.340000 0000 9195 2461GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam Germany
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- grid.131063.60000 0001 2168 0066Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, 100 Galvin Life Sciences, Notre Dame, IN USA
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- grid.55614.330000 0001 1302 4958Polar Knowledge Canada, Canadian High Arctic Research Station, 1 rue Uvajuq place, CP 2150 Cambridge Bay, NU Canada
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- grid.511342.0NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO USA
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- grid.148313.c0000 0004 0428 3079Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bikini Atoll Rd., SM 30, Los Alamos, NM USA
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- grid.4305.20000 0004 1936 7988School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Drummond St, Edinburgh, EH8 9XP UK
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- grid.411017.20000 0001 2151 0999Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering, University of Arkansas, 1164 W Maple St, Fayetteville, AR USA
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- grid.9026.d0000 0001 2287 2617Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), University of Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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- grid.423024.30000 0000 8485 3852NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO USA ,grid.266190.a0000000096214564CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences), 216 UCB, University of Colorado Boulder Campus, Boulder, CO USA
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- grid.263518.b0000 0001 1507 4692Department of Environmental Science, Shinshu University, 3 Chome-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano, 390-8621 Japan
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- grid.261120.60000 0004 1936 8040Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, S San Francisco St, Flagstaff, AZ USA
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- grid.511342.0NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO USA
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- DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, Owen Rd, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, NM USA
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- grid.133342.40000 0004 1936 9676Department of Geography and Earth Research Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, 5816 Ellison Hall, Isla Vista, CA USA
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- grid.13508.3f0000 0001 1017 5662Department of Glaciology and Climate, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- grid.419500.90000 0004 0491 7318Department of Biogeochemical Signals, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Straße 10, 07745 Jena, Germany
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- Osaka Metropolitan University, Sakai, Kita Ward, Umeda, 1 Chome−2 − 2-600, Osaka, Japan
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- grid.5510.10000 0004 1936 8921Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Sem Sælands vei 1, 0371 Oslo, Norway
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- grid.511342.0NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO USA ,grid.266190.a0000000096214564CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences), 216 UCB, University of Colorado Boulder Campus, Boulder, CO USA ,grid.266190.a0000000096214564IRISS (Integrated Remote and In Situ Sensing), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO USA
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- grid.70738.3b0000 0004 1936 981XInstitute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2140 Koyukuk Dr, Fairbanks, AK USA
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- grid.7737.40000 0004 0410 2071University of Helsinki, Yliopistonkatu 4, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
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- grid.419754.a0000 0001 2259 5533Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research (WSL), Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, ZH Switzerland
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- grid.5254.60000 0001 0674 042XDepartment of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 23, 1958 Frederiksberg, Denmark
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- grid.5801.c0000 0001 2156 2780Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, CHN, Universitätstrasse 16, 8006 Zurich, Switzerland
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- grid.70738.3b0000 0004 1936 981XInstitute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2140 Koyukuk Dr, Fairbanks, AK USA
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- grid.12650.300000 0001 1034 3451Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Linnaeus väg 4-6, 907 36 Umeå, Sweden
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- grid.1089.00000 0004 0432 8812ANSTO Lucas Heights, New Illawarra Rd, Lucas Heights NSW, 2234 Sydney, NSW Australia
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Lyu L, Leugger F, Hagen O, Fopp F, Boschman LM, Strijk JS, Albouy C, Karger DN, Brun P, Wang Z, Zimmermann NE, Pellissier L. An integrated high-resolution mapping shows congruent biodiversity patterns of Fagales and Pinales. New Phytol 2022; 235:759-772. [PMID: 35429166 PMCID: PMC9323436 DOI: 10.1111/nph.18158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2021] [Accepted: 03/21/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The documentation of biodiversity distribution through species range identification is crucial for macroecology, biogeography, conservation, and restoration. However, for plants, species range maps remain scarce and often inaccurate. We present a novel approach to map species ranges at a global scale, integrating polygon mapping and species distribution modelling (SDM). We develop a polygon mapping algorithm by considering distances and nestedness of occurrences. We further apply an SDM approach considering multiple modelling algorithms, complexity levels, and pseudo-absence selections to map the species at a high spatial resolution and intersect it with the generated polygons. We use this approach to construct range maps for all 1957 species of Fagales and Pinales with data compilated from multiple sources. We construct high-resolution global species richness maps of these important plant clades, and document diversity hotspots for both clades in southern and south-western China, Central America, and Borneo. We validate the approach with two representative genera, Quercus and Pinus, using previously published coarser range maps, and find good agreement. By efficiently producing high-resolution range maps, our mapping approach offers a new tool in the field of macroecology for studying global species distribution patterns and supporting ongoing conservation efforts.
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- Lisha Lyu
- Department of Environmental System ScienceETH ZürichUniversitätstrasse 168092ZürichSwitzerland
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSLZürcherstrasse 1118903BirmensdorfSwitzerland
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- Department of Environmental System ScienceETH ZürichUniversitätstrasse 168092ZürichSwitzerland
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSLZürcherstrasse 1118903BirmensdorfSwitzerland
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- Department of Environmental System ScienceETH ZürichUniversitätstrasse 168092ZürichSwitzerland
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSLZürcherstrasse 1118903BirmensdorfSwitzerland
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- Department of Environmental System ScienceETH ZürichUniversitätstrasse 168092ZürichSwitzerland
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSLZürcherstrasse 1118903BirmensdorfSwitzerland
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- Department of Environmental System ScienceETH ZürichUniversitätstrasse 168092ZürichSwitzerland
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSLZürcherstrasse 1118903BirmensdorfSwitzerland
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- Institute for Biodiversity and Environmental ResearchUniversiti Brunei DarussalamJalan Tungku LinkGadongBE1410Brunei Darussalam
- Alliance for Conservation Tree GenomicsPha Tad Ke Botanical Garden, PO Box 95906000Luang PrabangLao PDR
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- IFREMERUnité Écologie et Modèles pour l’Hallieutiquerue I’lle d’YeauBP21105, 44311Nantes Cedex 3France
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSLZürcherstrasse 1118903BirmensdorfSwitzerland
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSLZürcherstrasse 1118903BirmensdorfSwitzerland
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- Institute of Ecology and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of EducationCollege of Urban and Environmental SciencesPeking University100871BeijingChina
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- Department of Environmental System ScienceETH ZürichUniversitätstrasse 168092ZürichSwitzerland
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSLZürcherstrasse 1118903BirmensdorfSwitzerland
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- Department of Environmental System ScienceETH ZürichUniversitätstrasse 168092ZürichSwitzerland
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSLZürcherstrasse 1118903BirmensdorfSwitzerland
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Dauphin B, Rellstab C, Schmid M, Zoller S, Karger DN, Brodbeck S, Guillaume F, Gugerli F. Genomic vulnerability to rapid climate warming in a tree species with a long generation time. Glob Chang Biol 2021; 27:1181-1195. [PMID: 33345407 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2020] [Accepted: 10/27/2020] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
Abstract
The ongoing increase in global temperature affects biodiversity, especially in mountain regions where climate change is exacerbated. As sessile, long-lived organisms, trees are especially challenged in terms of adapting to rapid climate change. Here, we show that low rates of allele frequency shifts in Swiss stone pine (Pinus cembra) occurring near the treeline result in high genomic vulnerability to future climate warming, presumably due to the species' long generation time. Using exome sequencing data from adult and juvenile cohorts in the Swiss Alps, we found an average rate of allele frequency shift of 1.23 × 10-2 /generation (i.e. 40 years) at presumably neutral loci, with similar rates for putatively adaptive loci associated with temperature (0.96 × 10-2 /generation) and precipitation (0.91 × 10-2 /generation). These recent shifts were corroborated by forward-in-time simulations at neutral and adaptive loci. Additionally, in juvenile trees at the colonisation front we detected alleles putatively beneficial under a future warmer and drier climate. Notably, the observed past rate of allele frequency shift in temperature-associated loci was decidedly lower than the estimated average rate of 6.29 × 10-2 /generation needed to match a moderate future climate scenario (RCP4.5). Our findings suggest that species with long generation times may have difficulty keeping up with the rapid climate change occurring in high mountain areas and thus are prone to local extinction in their current main elevation range.
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Genetic Diversity Centre, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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Chauvier Y, Thuiller W, Brun P, Lavergne S, Descombes P, Karger DN, Renaud J, Zimmermann NE. Influence of climate, soil, and land cover on plant species distribution in the European Alps. ECOL MONOGR 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Yohann Chauvier
- Swiss Federal Research Institute (WSL) Birmensdorf8903Switzerland
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- Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine CNRS LECA Université Grenoble AlpesUniversité Savoie Mont Blanc GrenobleF‐38000France
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute (WSL) Birmensdorf8903Switzerland
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- Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine CNRS LECA Université Grenoble AlpesUniversité Savoie Mont Blanc GrenobleF‐38000France
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute (WSL) Birmensdorf8903Switzerland
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- Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine CNRS LECA Université Grenoble AlpesUniversité Savoie Mont Blanc GrenobleF‐38000France
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Aros-Mualin D, Noben S, Karger DN, Carvajal-Hernández CI, Salazar L, Hernández-Rojas A, Kluge J, Sundue MA, Lehnert M, Quandt D, Kessler M. Functional Diversity in Ferns Is Driven by Species Richness Rather Than by Environmental Constraints. Front Plant Sci 2021; 11:615723. [PMID: 33505416 PMCID: PMC7829179 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.615723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2020] [Accepted: 12/07/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Functional traits determine how species interact with their abiotic and biotic environment. In turn, functional diversity describes how assemblages of species as a whole are adapted to their environment, which also determines how they might react to changing conditions. To fully understand functional diversity, it is fundamental to (a) disentangle the influences of environmental filtering and species richness from each other, (b) assess if the trait space saturates at high levels of species richness, and (c) understand how changes in species numbers affect the relative importance of the trait niche expansion and packing. In the present study, we determined functional diversity of fern assemblages by describing morphological traits related to resource acquisition along four tropical elevational transects with different environmental conditions and species richness. We used several functional diversity indices and their standardized effect size to consider different aspects of functional diversity. We contrasted these aspects of functional diversity with climate data and species richness using linear models and linear mixed models. Our results show that functional morphological trait diversity was primarily driven by species richness and only marginally by environmental conditions. Moreover, increasing species richness contributed progressively to packing of the morphological niche space, while at the same time decreasing morphological expansion until a saturation point was reached. Overall, our findings suggest that the density of co-occurring species is the fundamental driving force of morphological niche structure, and environmental conditions have only an indirect influence on fern resource acquisition strategies.
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- Daniela Aros-Mualin
- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Centro de Investigación de la Biodiversidad y Cambio Climático (BioCamb) e Ingeniería en Biodiversidad y Recursos Genéticos, Facultad de Ciencias de Medio Ambiente, Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica, Quito, Ecuador
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- Department of Geography, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- The Pringle Herbarium, Department of Plant Biology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States
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- Department of Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Herbarium, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
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- Nees-Institute for Biodiversity of Plants, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Salces-Castellano A, Stankowski S, Arribas P, Patiño J, Karger DN, Butlin R, Emerson BC. Long-term cloud forest response to climate warming revealed by insect speciation history. Evolution 2020; 75:231-244. [PMID: 33078844 DOI: 10.1111/evo.14111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2020] [Accepted: 10/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
Montane cloud forests are areas of high endemism, and are one of the more vulnerable terrestrial ecosystems to climate change. Thus, understanding how they both contribute to the generation of biodiversity, and will respond to ongoing climate change, are important and related challenges. The widely accepted model for montane cloud forest dynamics involves upslope forcing of their range limits with global climate warming. However, limited climate data provides some support for an alternative model, where range limits are forced downslope with climate warming. Testing between these two models is challenging, due to the inherent limitations of climate and pollen records. We overcome this with an alternative source of historical information, testing between competing model predictions using genomic data and demographic analyses for a species of beetle tightly associated to an oceanic island cloud forest. Results unequivocally support the alternative model: populations that were isolated at higher elevation peaks during the Last Glacial Maximum are now in contact and hybridizing at lower elevations. Our results suggest that genomic data are a rich source of information to further understand how montane cloud forest biodiversity originates, and how it is likely to be impacted by ongoing climate change.
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- Antonia Salces-Castellano
- Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group, Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology (IPNA-CSIC), La Laguna, 38206, Spain.,School of Doctoral and Postgraduate Studies, University of La Laguna, La Laguna, 38200, Spain
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- Institute of Science and Technology, Klosterneuburg, 3400, Austria.,Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S102TN, United Kingdom
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- Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group, Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology (IPNA-CSIC), La Laguna, 38206, Spain
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- Department of Botany, Ecology, and Plant Physiology, University of La Laguna, La Laguna, 38071, Spain
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- Department - Dynamic Macroecology, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, 8903, Switzerland
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- Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S102TN, United Kingdom.,Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, 40530, Sweden
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- Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group, Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology (IPNA-CSIC), La Laguna, 38206, Spain
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Zhang Z, Capinha C, Karger DN, Turon X, MacIsaac HJ, Zhan A. Impacts of climate change on geographical distributions of invasive ascidians. Mar Environ Res 2020; 159:104993. [PMID: 32662432 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.104993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2019] [Revised: 04/14/2020] [Accepted: 04/15/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
Ocean warming associated with global climate change renders marine ecosystems susceptible to biological invasions. Here, we used species distribution models to project habitat suitability for eight invasive ascidians under present-day and future climate scenarios. Distance to shore and maximum sea surface temperature were identified as the most important variables affecting species distributions. Results showed that eight ascidians might respond differently to future climate change. Alarmingly, currently colonized areas are much smaller than predicted, suggesting ascidians may expand their invasive ranges. Areas such as Americas, Europe and Western Pacific have high risks of receiving new invasions. In contrast, African coasts, excluding the Mediterranean side, are not prone to new invasions, likely due to the high sea surface temperature there. Our results highlight the importance of climate change impacts on future invasions and the need for accurate modelling of invasion risks, which can be used as guides to develop management strategies.
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- Zhixin Zhang
- Graduate School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Konan, Minato, Tokyo, 108-8477, Japan
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- Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território - IGOT, Universidade de Lisboa, Rua Branca Edmée Marques, 1600-276, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, 8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Centre for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEAB, CSIC), Blanes, Catalonia, Spain
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- School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, China; Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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- Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
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Yannic G, Hagen O, Leugger F, Karger DN, Pellissier L. Harnessing paleo-environmental modeling and genetic data to predict intraspecific genetic structure. Evol Appl 2020; 13:1526-1542. [PMID: 32684974 PMCID: PMC7359836 DOI: 10.1111/eva.12986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2019] [Revised: 04/15/2020] [Accepted: 04/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Spatially explicit simulations of gene flow within complex landscapes could help forecast the responses of populations to global and anthropological changes. Simulating how past climate change shaped intraspecific genetic variation can provide a validation of models in anticipation of their use to predict future changes. We review simulation models that provide inferences on population genetic structure. Existing simulation models generally integrate complex demographic and genetic processes but are less focused on the landscape dynamics. In contrast to previous approaches integrating detailed demographic and genetic processes and only secondarily landscape dynamics, we present a model based on parsimonious biological mechanisms combining habitat suitability and cellular processes, applicable to complex landscapes. The simulation model takes as input (a) the species dispersal capacities as the main biological parameter, (b) the species habitat suitability, and (c) the landscape structure, modulating dispersal. Our model emphasizes the role of landscape features and their temporal dynamics in generating genetic differentiation among populations within species. We illustrate our model on caribou/reindeer populations sampled across the entire species distribution range in the Northern Hemisphere. We show that simulations over the past 21 kyr predict a population genetic structure that matches empirical data. This approach looking at the impact of historical landscape dynamics on intraspecific structure can be used to forecast population structure under climate change scenarios and evaluate how species range shifts might induce erosion of genetic variation within species.
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- Glenn Yannic
- Univ. Grenoble Alpes Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc CNRS LECA Grenoble France
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- Landscape Ecology Department of Environmental Systems Sciensce Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems ETH Zürich Zürich Switzerland.,Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research Birmensdorf Switzerland
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- Landscape Ecology Department of Environmental Systems Sciensce Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems ETH Zürich Zürich Switzerland.,Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research Birmensdorf Switzerland
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research Birmensdorf Switzerland
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- Landscape Ecology Department of Environmental Systems Sciensce Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems ETH Zürich Zürich Switzerland.,Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research Birmensdorf Switzerland
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Lehtonen S, Poczai P, Sablok G, Hyvönen J, Karger DN, Flores J. Exploring the phylogeny of the marattialean ferns. Cladistics 2020; 36:569-593. [DOI: 10.1111/cla.12419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/16/2020] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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- Samuli Lehtonen
- Biodiversity Unit University of Turku FI‐20014 Turku Finland
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- Finnish Museum of Natural History (Botany) University of Helsinki PO Box 7 FI‐00014 Helsinki Finland
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- Finnish Museum of Natural History (Botany) University of Helsinki PO Box 7 FI‐00014 Helsinki Finland
- OEB and ViPS University of Helsinki PO Box 65 FI‐00014 Helsinki Finland
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- Finnish Museum of Natural History (Botany) University of Helsinki PO Box 7 FI‐00014 Helsinki Finland
- OEB and ViPS University of Helsinki PO Box 65 FI‐00014 Helsinki Finland
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- Biodiversity Unit University of Turku FI‐20014 Turku Finland
- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL 8903 Birmensdorf Switzerland
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- Finnish Museum of Natural History (Botany) University of Helsinki PO Box 7 FI‐00014 Helsinki Finland
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Guerra CA, Rosa IMD, Valentini E, Wolf F, Filipponi F, Karger DN, Xuan AN, Mathieu J, Lavelle P, Eisenhauer N. Global vulnerability of soil ecosystems to erosion. Landsc Ecol 2020; 35:823-842. [PMID: 32587435 PMCID: PMC7316572 DOI: 10.1007/s10980-020-00984-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2019] [Accepted: 02/14/2020] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
Abstract
CONTEXT Soil erosion is one of the main threats driving soil degradation across the globe with important impacts on crop yields, soil biota, biogeochemical cycles, and ultimately human nutrition. OBJECTIVES Here, using an empirical model, we present a global and temporally explicit assessment of soil erosion risk according to recent (2001-2013) dynamics of rainfall and vegetation cover change to identify vulnerable areas for soils and soil biodiversity. METHODS We used an adaptation of the Universal Soil Loss Equation together with state of the art remote sensing models to create a spatially and temporally explicit global model of soil erosion and soil protection. Finally, we overlaid global maps of soil biodiversity to assess the potential vulnerability of these soil communities to soil erosion. RESULTS We show a consistent decline in soil erosion protection over time across terrestrial biomes, which resulted in a global increase of 11.7% in soil erosion rates. Notably, soil erosion risk systematically increased between 2006 and 2013 in relation to the baseline year (2001). Although vegetation cover is central to soil protection, this increase was mostly driven by changes in rainfall erosivity. Globally, soil erosion is expected not only to have an impact on the vulnerability of soil conditions but also on soil biodiversity with 6.4% (for soil macrofauna) and 7.6% (for soil fungi) of these vulnerable areas coinciding with regions with high soil biodiversity. CONCLUSIONS Our results indicate that an increasing proportion of soils are degraded globally, affecting not only livelihoods but also potentially degrading local and regional landscapes. Similarly, many degraded regions coincide with and may have impacted high levels of soil biodiversity.
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- Carlos A Guerra
- Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Am Kirchtor 1, 06108 Halle (Saale), Germany; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5E, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Gwyned, Wales, UK
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- Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Via Vitaliano Brancati 48, 00144 Roma, Italy
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- Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Am Kirchtor 1, 06108 Halle (Saale), Germany; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5E, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Via Vitaliano Brancati 48, 00144 Roma, Italy
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- Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland; Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Via Vitaliano Brancati 48, 00144 Roma, Italy
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UPEC, Paris 7, INRA, IRD, Institut d'Ecologie et des Sciences de l'Environnement de Paris, 75005 Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UPEC, Paris 7, INRA, IRD, Institut d'Ecologie et des Sciences de l'Environnement de Paris, 75005 Paris, France
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5E, 04103 Leipzig, Germany; Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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Salces‐Castellano A, Patiño J, Alvarez N, Andújar C, Arribas P, Braojos‐Ruiz JJ, Arco‐Aguilar M, García‐Olivares V, Karger DN, López H, Manolopoulou I, Oromí P, Pérez‐Delgado AJ, Peterman WE, Rijsdijk KF, Emerson BC. Climate drives community‐wide divergence within species over a limited spatial scale: evidence from an oceanic island. Ecol Lett 2019; 23:305-315. [DOI: 10.1111/ele.13433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2019] [Revised: 06/15/2019] [Accepted: 10/09/2019] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Antonia Salces‐Castellano
- Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology (IPNA‐CSIC) C/Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez 3 La Laguna Tenerife Canary Islands 38206 Spain
- School of Doctoral and Postgraduate Studies University of La Laguna 38200 La Laguna Tenerife Canary Islands Spain
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- Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology (IPNA‐CSIC) C/Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez 3 La Laguna Tenerife Canary Islands 38206 Spain
- Plant Conservation and Biogeography Group Department of Botany, Ecology and Plant Physiology University of La Laguna C/ Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez 38206La Laguna Tenerife Canary Islands Spain
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- Natural History Museum of Geneva 1 route de Malagnou 1208 Geneva Switzerland
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- Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology (IPNA‐CSIC) C/Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez 3 La Laguna Tenerife Canary Islands 38206 Spain
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- Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology (IPNA‐CSIC) C/Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez 3 La Laguna Tenerife Canary Islands 38206 Spain
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- Tenerife Insular Water Council (CIATF) C/ Leoncio Rodríguez 2 38003 Santa Cruz de Tenerife Spain
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- Plant Conservation and Biogeography Group Department of Botany, Ecology and Plant Physiology University of La Laguna C/ Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez 38206La Laguna Tenerife Canary Islands Spain
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- Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology (IPNA‐CSIC) C/Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez 3 La Laguna Tenerife Canary Islands 38206 Spain
- School of Doctoral and Postgraduate Studies University of La Laguna 38200 La Laguna Tenerife Canary Islands Spain
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL Zürcherstrasse 1118903Birmensdorf Switzerland
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- Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology (IPNA‐CSIC) C/Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez 3 La Laguna Tenerife Canary Islands 38206 Spain
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- Department of Animal Biology, Edaphology and Geology University of Laguna C/ Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez 38206 La Laguna, Tenerife Canary Islands Spain
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- Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology (IPNA‐CSIC) C/Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez 3 La Laguna Tenerife Canary Islands 38206 Spain
- School of Doctoral and Postgraduate Studies University of La Laguna 38200 La Laguna Tenerife Canary Islands Spain
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- School of Environmental and Natural Resources The Ohio State University Columbus OH USA
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- Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics University of Amsterdam Amsterdam Netherlands
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- Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology (IPNA‐CSIC) C/Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez 3 La Laguna Tenerife Canary Islands 38206 Spain
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Bjorkman AD, Myers-Smith IH, Elmendorf SC, Normand S, Rüger N, Beck PSA, Blach-Overgaard A, Blok D, Cornelissen JHC, Forbes BC, Georges D, Goetz SJ, Guay KC, Henry GHR, HilleRisLambers J, Hollister RD, Karger DN, Kattge J, Manning P, Prevéy JS, Rixen C, Schaepman-Strub G, Thomas HJD, Vellend M, Wilmking M, Wipf S, Carbognani M, Hermanutz L, Lévesque E, Molau U, Petraglia A, Soudzilovskaia NA, Spasojevic MJ, Tomaselli M, Vowles T, Alatalo JM, Alexander HD, Anadon-Rosell A, Angers-Blondin S, Beest MT, Berner L, Björk RG, Buchwal A, Buras A, Christie K, Cooper EJ, Dullinger S, Elberling B, Eskelinen A, Frei ER, Grau O, Grogan P, Hallinger M, Harper KA, Heijmans MMPD, Hudson J, Hülber K, Iturrate-Garcia M, Iversen CM, Jaroszynska F, Johnstone JF, Jørgensen RH, Kaarlejärvi E, Klady R, Kuleza S, Kulonen A, Lamarque LJ, Lantz T, Little CJ, Speed JDM, Michelsen A, Milbau A, Nabe-Nielsen J, Nielsen SS, Ninot JM, Oberbauer SF, Olofsson J, Onipchenko VG, Rumpf SB, Semenchuk P, Shetti R, Collier LS, Street LE, Suding KN, Tape KD, Trant A, Treier UA, Tremblay JP, Tremblay M, Venn S, Weijers S, Zamin T, Boulanger-Lapointe N, Gould WA, Hik DS, Hofgaard A, Jónsdóttir IS, Jorgenson J, Klein J, Magnusson B, Tweedie C, Wookey PA, Bahn M, Blonder B, van Bodegom PM, Bond-Lamberty B, Campetella G, Cerabolini BEL, Chapin FS, Cornwell WK, Craine J, Dainese M, de Vries FT, Díaz S, Enquist BJ, Green W, Milla R, Niinemets Ü, Onoda Y, Ordoñez JC, Ozinga WA, Penuelas J, Poorter H, Poschlod P, Reich PB, Sandel B, Schamp B, Sheremetev S, Weiher E. Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome. Nature 2018; 562:57-62. [PMID: 30258229 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0563-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 206] [Impact Index Per Article: 34.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2017] [Accepted: 08/08/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
The tundra is warming more rapidly than any other biome on Earth, and the potential ramifications are far-reaching because of global feedback effects between vegetation and climate. A better understanding of how environmental factors shape plant structure and function is crucial for predicting the consequences of environmental change for ecosystem functioning. Here we explore the biome-wide relationships between temperature, moisture and seven key plant functional traits both across space and over three decades of warming at 117 tundra locations. Spatial temperature-trait relationships were generally strong but soil moisture had a marked influence on the strength and direction of these relationships, highlighting the potentially important influence of changes in water availability on future trait shifts in tundra plant communities. Community height increased with warming across all sites over the past three decades, but other traits lagged far behind predicted rates of change. Our findings highlight the challenge of using space-for-time substitution to predict the functional consequences of future warming and suggest that functions that are tied closely to plant height will experience the most rapid change. They also reveal the strength with which environmental factors shape biotic communities at the coldest extremes of the planet and will help to improve projections of functional changes in tundra ecosystems with climate warming.
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- Anne D Bjorkman
- School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. .,Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. .,Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt, Germany.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.,National Ecological Observatory Network, Boulder, CO, USA.,Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.,Arctic Research Center, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.,Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE), Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Directorate D - Sustainable Resources, Bio-Economy Unit, Ispra, Italy
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- Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.,Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE), Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Systems Ecology, Department of Ecological Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland
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- School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.,International Agency for Research in Cancer, Lyon, France
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- School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, USA
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- Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
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- Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt, Germany
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- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland
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- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Département de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
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- Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Greifswald University, Greifswald, Germany
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- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Department of Biology, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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- Département des Sciences de l'environnement et Centre d'études nordiques, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada
| | - Ulf Molau
- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Environmental Biology Department, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
| | - Juha M Alatalo
- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Forestry, Forest and Wildlife Research Center, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, USA
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- Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Greifswald University, Greifswald, Germany.,Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Biodiversity Research Institute, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.,Environmental Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.,Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Göteborg, Sweden
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- Institute of Geoecology and Geoinformation, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.,Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alaska, Anchorage, Anchorage, AK, USA
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- Forest Ecology and Forest Management, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Center for Permafrost (CENPERM), Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Department of Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.,Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.,Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Global Ecology Unit, CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.,CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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- Biology Department, Swedish Agricultural University (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden
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- Biology Department, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- British Columbia Public Service, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
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- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland.,Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Forest and Landscape College, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Nødebo, Denmark
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- Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.,Department of Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
| | - Aino Kulonen
- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland
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- Département des Sciences de l'environnement et Centre d'études nordiques, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada
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- School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
| | - Chelsea J Little
- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,Department of Aquatic Ecology, Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dubendorf, Switzerland
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- NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Center for Permafrost (CENPERM), Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Brussels, Belgium
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- Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Biodiversity Research Institute, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
| | - Philipp Semenchuk
- Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.,Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Greifswald University, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Laura Siegwart Collier
- Department of Biology, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
| | - Lorna E Street
- School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Institute of Northern Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA
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- Department of Biology, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.,School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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- Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.,Arctic Research Center, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.,Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE), Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Département de biologie, Centre d'études nordiques and Centre d'étude de la forêt, Université Laval, Quebec City, Québec, Canada
| | - Maxime Tremblay
- Département des Sciences de l'environnement et Centre d'études nordiques, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada
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- Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - Tara Zamin
- Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
| | | | - William A Gould
- USDA Forest Service International Institute of Tropical Forestry, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
| | | | - Ingibjörg S Jónsdóttir
- Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.,University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway
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- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Fairbanks, AK, USA
| | - Julia Klein
- Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Biology and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK
| | - Michael Bahn
- Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
| | - Benjamin Blonder
- Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, CO, USA
| | - Peter M van Bodegom
- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Benjamin Bond-Lamberty
- Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, MD, USA
| | - Giandiego Campetella
- School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, Plant Diversity and Ecosystems Management Unit, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy
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- Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA
| | - William K Cornwell
- School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ecology and Evolution Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Institute for Alpine Environment, Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
| | - Sandra Díaz
- Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (IMBIV), CONICET and FCEFyN, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
| | - Brian J Enquist
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.,The Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA
| | - Walton Green
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
| | - Ruben Milla
- Área de Biodiversidad y Conservación. Departamento de Biología, Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
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- Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
| | - Yusuke Onoda
- Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Team Vegetation, Forest and Landscape Ecology, Wageningen Environmental Research (Alterra), Wageningen, The Netherlands.,Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
| | - Josep Penuelas
- CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.,Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Bellaterra, Spain
| | - Hendrik Poorter
- Plant Sciences (IBG-2), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany.,Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
| | - Peter Poschlod
- Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
| | - Peter B Reich
- Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA.,Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Biology, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA
| | - Brandon Schamp
- Department of Biology, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
| | | | - Evan Weiher
- Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI, USA
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Olivares I, Karger DN, Kessler M. Assessing species saturation: conceptual and methodological challenges. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2018; 93:1874-1890. [PMID: 29733121 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2017] [Revised: 04/04/2018] [Accepted: 04/10/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Is there a maximum number of species that can coexist? Intuitively, we assume an upper limit to the number of species in a given assemblage, or that a lineage can produce, but defining and testing this limit has proven problematic. Herein, we first outline seven general challenges of studies on species saturation, most of which are independent of the actual method used to assess saturation. Among these are the challenge of defining saturation conceptually and operationally, the importance of setting an appropriate referential system, and the need to discriminate among patterns, processes and mechanisms. Second, we list and discuss the methodological approaches that have been used to study species saturation. These approaches vary in time and spatial scales, and in the variables and assumptions needed to assess saturation. We argue that assessing species saturation is possible, but that many studies conducted to date have conceptual and methodological flaws that prevent us from currently attaining a good idea of the occurrence of species saturation.
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- Ingrid Olivares
- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland.,Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland
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de la Harpe M, Paris M, Karger DN, Rolland J, Kessler M, Salamin N, Lexer C. Molecular ecology studies of species radiations: current research gaps, opportunities and challenges. Mol Ecol 2017; 26:2608-2622. [PMID: 28316112 DOI: 10.1111/mec.14110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2016] [Revised: 02/11/2017] [Accepted: 03/06/2017] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
Abstract
Understanding the drivers and limits of species radiations is a crucial goal of evolutionary genetics and molecular ecology, yet research on this topic has been hampered by the notorious difficulty of connecting micro- and macroevolutionary approaches to studying the drivers of diversification. To chart the current research gaps, opportunities and challenges of molecular ecology approaches to studying radiations, we examine the literature in the journal Molecular Ecology and revisit recent high-profile examples of evolutionary genomic research on radiations. We find that available studies of radiations are highly unevenly distributed among taxa, with many ecologically important and species-rich organismal groups remaining severely understudied, including arthropods, plants and fungi. Most studies employed molecular methods suitable over either short or long evolutionary time scales, such as microsatellites or restriction site-associated DNA sequencing (RAD-seq) in the former case and conventional amplicon sequencing of organellar DNA in the latter. The potential of molecular ecology studies to address and resolve patterns and processes around the species level in radiating groups of taxa is currently limited primarily by sample size and a dearth of information on radiating nuclear genomes as opposed to organellar ones. Based on our literature survey and personal experience, we suggest possible ways forward in the coming years. We touch on the potential and current limitations of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) in studies of radiations. We suggest that WGS and targeted ('capture') resequencing emerge as the methods of choice for scaling up the sampling of populations, species and genomes, including currently understudied organismal groups and the genes or regulatory elements expected to matter most to species radiations.
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- Marylaure de la Harpe
- Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 10, Fribourg, CH-1700, Switzerland.,Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Rennweg 14, Vienna, A-1030, Austria
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- Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 10, Fribourg, CH-1700, Switzerland
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- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, Zürich, CH-8008, Switzerland
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Biophore, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, CH-1015, Switzerland.,Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Quartier Sorge, Lausanne, CH-1015, Switzerland
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- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, Zürich, CH-8008, Switzerland
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Biophore, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, CH-1015, Switzerland.,Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Quartier Sorge, Lausanne, CH-1015, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 10, Fribourg, CH-1700, Switzerland.,Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Rennweg 14, Vienna, A-1030, Austria
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Abrahamczyk S, Kessler M, Hanley D, Karger DN, Müller MPJ, Knauer AC, Keller F, Schwerdtfeger M, Humphreys AM. Pollinator adaptation and the evolution of floral nectar sugar composition. J Evol Biol 2016; 30:112-127. [PMID: 27747987 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2016] [Revised: 10/08/2016] [Accepted: 10/12/2016] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
Abstract
A long-standing debate concerns whether nectar sugar composition evolves as an adaptation to pollinator dietary requirements or whether it is 'phylogenetically constrained'. Here, we use a modelling approach to evaluate the hypothesis that nectar sucrose proportion (NSP) is an adaptation to pollinators. We analyse ~ 2100 species of asterids, spanning several plant families and pollinator groups (PGs), and show that the hypothesis of adaptation cannot be rejected: NSP evolves towards two optimal values, high NSP for specialist-pollinated and low NSP for generalist-pollinated plants. However, the inferred adaptive process is weak, suggesting that adaptation to PG only provides a partial explanation for how nectar evolves. Additional factors are therefore needed to fully explain nectar evolution, and we suggest that future studies might incorporate floral shape and size and the abiotic environment into the analytical framework. Further, we show that NSP and PG evolution are correlated - in a manner dictated by pollinator behaviour. This contrasts with the view that a plant necessarily has to adapt its nectar composition to ensure pollination but rather suggests that pollinators adapt their foraging behaviour or dietary requirements to the nectar sugar composition presented by the plants. Finally, we document unexpectedly sucrose-poor nectar in some specialized nectarivorous bird-pollinated plants from the Old World, which might represent an overlooked form of pollinator deception. Thus, our broad study provides several new insights into how nectar evolves and we conclude by discussing why maintaining the conceptual dichotomy between adaptation and constraint might be unhelpful for advancing this field.
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Affiliation(s)
- S Abrahamczyk
- Nees Institute for Plant Biodiversity, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, Long Island University - Post, Brookville, NY, USA
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- Institute of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Plant Science, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Albrecht-v.-Haller Institute of Plant Science, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Berkshire, UK.,Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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