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Del Mar Labrador M, Serrano D, Doña J, Aguilera E, Arroyo JL, Atiénzar F, Barba E, Bermejo A, Blanco G, Borràs A, Calleja JA, Cantó JL, Cortés V, De la Puente J, De Palacio D, Fernández-González S, Figuerola J, Frías Ó, Fuertes-Marcos B, Garamszegi LZ, Gordo Ó, Gurpegui M, Kovács I, Martínez JL, Meléndez L, Mestre A, Møller AP, Monrós JS, Moreno-Opo R, Navarro C, Pap PL, Pérez-Tris J, Piculo R, Ponce C, Proctor HC, Rodríguez R, Sallent Á, Senar JC, Tella JL, Vágási CI, Vögeli M, Jovani R. Host space, not energy or symbiont size, constrains feather mite abundance across passerine bird species. J Anim Ecol 2024; 93:393-405. [PMID: 38100230 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.14032] [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] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2023] [Accepted: 11/06/2023] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
Abstract
Comprehending symbiont abundance among host species is a major ecological endeavour, and the metabolic theory of ecology has been proposed to understand what constrains symbiont populations. We parameterized metabolic theory equations to investigate how bird species' body size and the body size of their feather mites relate to mite abundance according to four potential energy (uropygial gland size) and space constraints (wing area, total length of barbs and number of feather barbs). Predictions were compared with the empirical scaling of feather mite abundance across 106 passerine bird species (26,604 individual birds sampled), using phylogenetic modelling and quantile regression. Feather mite abundance was strongly constrained by host space (number of feather barbs) but not by energy. Moreover, feather mite species' body size was unrelated to the body size of their host species. We discuss the implications of our results for our understanding of the bird-feather mite system and for symbiont abundance in general.
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- María Del Mar Labrador
- Doñana Biological Station (CSIC), Seville, Spain
- SEO-Monticola Ornithological Group, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA
- University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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- SEO-Monticola Ornithological Group, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- SEO-Monticola Ornithological Group, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- SEO-Monticola Ornithological Group, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- SEO-Monticola Ornithological Group, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary
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- Doñana Biological Station (CSIC), Seville, Spain
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- National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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- 'Milvus Group' Bird and Nature Protection Association, Târgu Mureş, Romania
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- Biodiversity Research Institute (Univ. of Oviedo-CSIC-Princ. Asturias), Mieres, Spain
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- SEO-Monticola Ornithological Group, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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- SEO-Monticola Ornithological Group, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Naturalists Association of Southeast (ANSE), Murcia, Spain
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- Doñana Biological Station (CSIC), Seville, Spain
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- Doñana Biological Station (CSIC), Seville, Spain
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Rojo C, Mesquita-Joanes F, Monrós JS, Armengol J, Sasa M, Bonilla F, Rueda R, Benavent-Corai J, Piculo R, Segura MM. Hydrology Affects Environmental and Spatial Structuring of Microalgal Metacommunities in Tropical Pacific Coast Wetlands. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0149505. [PMID: 26900916 PMCID: PMC4762632 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2015] [Accepted: 02/02/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The alternating climate between wet and dry periods has important effects on the hydrology and therefore on niche-based processes of water bodies in tropical areas. Additionally, assemblages of microorganism can show spatial patterns, in the form of a distance decay relationship due to their size or life form. We aimed to test spatial and environmental effects, modulated by a seasonal flooding climatic pattern, on the distribution of microalgae in 30 wetlands of a tropical dry forest region: the Pacific coast of Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Three surveys were conducted corresponding to the beginning, the highest peak, and the end of the hydrological year during the wet season, and species abundance and composition of planktonic and benthic microalgae was determined. Variation partitioning analysis (as explained by spatial distance or environmental factors) was applied to each seasonal dataset by means of partial redundancy analysis. Our results show that microalgal assemblages were structured by spatial and environmental factors depending on the hydrological period of the year. At the onset of hydroperiod and during flooding, neutral effects dominated community dynamics, but niche-based local effects resulted in more structured algal communities at the final periods of desiccating water bodies. Results suggest that climate-mediated effects on hydrology can influence the relative role of spatial and environmental factors on metacommunities of microalgae. Such variability needs to be accounted in order to describe accurately community dynamics in tropical coastal wetlands.
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- Carmen Rojo
- Cavanilles Institute for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Universidad de Valencia, Paterna, Spain
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- Cavanilles Institute for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Universidad de Valencia, Paterna, Spain
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- Cavanilles Institute for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Universidad de Valencia, Paterna, Spain
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- Cavanilles Institute for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Universidad de Valencia, Paterna, Spain
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- Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica
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- Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica
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- Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua, León, Nicaragua
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- Cavanilles Institute for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Universidad de Valencia, Paterna, Spain
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- Cavanilles Institute for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Universidad de Valencia, Paterna, Spain
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- Cavanilles Institute for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Universidad de Valencia, Paterna, Spain
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Diaz-Real J, Serrano D, Pérez-Tris J, Fernández-González S, Bermejo A, Calleja JA, De la Puente J, De Palacio D, Martínez JL, Moreno-Opo R, Ponce C, Frías Ó, Tella JL, Møller AP, Figuerola J, Pap PL, Kovács I, Vágási CI, Meléndez L, Blanco G, Aguilera E, Senar JC, Galván I, Atiénzar F, Barba E, Cantó JL, Cortés V, Monrós JS, Piculo R, Vögeli M, Borràs A, Navarro C, Mestre A, Jovani R. Repeatability of feather mite prevalence and intensity in passerine birds. PLoS One 2014; 9:e107341. [PMID: 25216248 PMCID: PMC4162594 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2014] [Accepted: 07/01/2014] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Understanding why host species differ so much in symbiont loads and how this depends on ecological host and symbiont traits is a major issue in the ecology of symbiosis. A first step in this inquiry is to know whether observed differences among host species are species-specific traits or more related with host-symbiont environmental conditions. Here we analysed the repeatability (R) of the intensity and the prevalence of feather mites to partition within- and among-host species variance components. We compiled the largest dataset so far available: 119 Paleartic passerine bird species, 75,944 individual birds, ca. 1.8 million mites, seven countries, 23 study years. Several analyses and approaches were made to estimate R and adjusted repeatability (R(adj)) after controlling for potential confounding factors (breeding period, weather, habitat, spatial autocorrelation and researcher identity). The prevalence of feather mites was moderately repeatable (R = 0.26-0.53; R(adj) = 0.32-0.57); smaller values were found for intensity (R = 0.19-0.30; R(adj )= 0.18-0.30). These moderate repeatabilities show that prevalence and intensity of feather mites differ among species, but also that the high variation within species leads to considerable overlap among bird species. Differences in the prevalence and intensity of feather mites within bird species were small among habitats, suggesting that local factors are playing a secondary role. However, effects of local climatic conditions were partially observed for intensity.
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- Javier Diaz-Real
- Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC), Sevilla, Spain
- Departamento de Ecoloxía e Bioloxía Animal. Universidade de Vigo, Campus As Lagoas Marconsende, Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain
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- Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Grupo Ornitológico SEO-Monticola. Unidad de Zoología. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Grupo Ornitológico SEO-Monticola. Unidad de Zoología. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Grupo Ornitológico SEO-Monticola. Unidad de Zoología. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Departamento Biología Animal, Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Grupo Ornitológico SEO-Monticola. Unidad de Zoología. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Grupo Ornitológico SEO-Monticola. Unidad de Zoología. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Grupo Ornitológico SEO-Monticola. Unidad de Zoología. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Grupo Ornitológico SEO-Monticola. Unidad de Zoología. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Grupo Ornitológico SEO-Monticola. Unidad de Zoología. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Jose Gutiérrez Abascal, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Jose Gutiérrez Abascal, Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratoire d'Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, CNRS UMR 8079, Université Paris-Sud 11, Bâtiment 362, Orsay, France
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- Evolutionary Ecology Group, Hungarian Department of Biology and Ecology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Romania
- MTA-DE “Lendület” Behavioural Ecology Research Group, Department of Evolutionary Zoology and Human Biology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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- 'Milvus Group' Bird and Nature Protection Association, Târgu Mureş, Romania
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- Evolutionary Ecology Group, Hungarian Department of Biology and Ecology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Romania
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- Unidad Mixta de Investigacion en Biodiversidad. Instituto Cantábrico de Biodiversidad (CSIC-Universidad de Oviedo), Oviedo, Spain
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Jose Gutiérrez Abascal, Madrid, Spain
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- Unidad Asociada de Ecología Evolutiva y del Comportamiento, Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Barcelona (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
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- Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Valencia, Paterna, Spain
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- Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Valencia, Paterna, Spain
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- Parque Natural del Carrascal de la Font Roja, Alcoi, Spain
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- Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Valencia, Paterna, Spain
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- Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Valencia, Paterna, Spain
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- Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Valencia, Paterna, Spain
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- Federal Office for the Environment FOEN, Species, Ecosystems, Landscape Division, Bern, Switzerland
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- Unidad Asociada de Ecología Evolutiva y del Comportamiento, Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Barcelona (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Microbiology and Ecology, University of Valencia, Burjassot, Spain
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC), Sevilla, Spain
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Beneyto D, Monrós JS, Piculo R. [The Raffia-swamps as sources or sinks of avifauna: a first approach to the problem]. REV BIOL TROP 2013; 61 Suppl 1:131-142. [PMID: 24459757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023] Open
Abstract
In the Tortuguero region, northeastern Costa Rica, tropical forests are home to over 300 species of birds. Within this ecosystem, wetlands dominated by the raffia palm Raphia taedigera and the royal palm Manicaria saccifera extend in large monospecific swamps locally known as yolillales. These wetlands are characterized by low plant diversity, simple structure, waterlogged soils, and extended hydroperiod. There is hardly any information on the bird communities that inhabit or uses yolillales. We describe this omitofauna, comparing the species that inhabit the palm-swams and in the adjacent forest in terms of species richness and diversity. During October-November 2008, we used transects and hearing stations in both habitats in four locations in the region. We located a total of 11 bird species in the palm-swamps and 31 in the adjacent forests. Our observations suggest that palm-swamps have lower species richness than adjacent forests and that these environments also differ in species composition. Despite their low diversity, yolillales are employed by species with different degrees of vulnerability, so that they may be important for bird conservation in the region. Sampling in yolillales is very hard, so our data should be considered preliminary. Further efforts in these environments are needed to improve our knowledge on the bird community that uses them.
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- Davinia Beneyto
- Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, Universidad de Valencia, España.
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- Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, Universidad de Valencia, España
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- Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, Universidad de Valencia, España
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Galván I, Barba E, Piculo R, Cantó JL, Cortés V, Monrós JS, Atiénzar F, Proctor H. Feather mites and birds: an interaction mediated by uropygial gland size? J Evol Biol 2007; 21:133-144. [PMID: 18028353 DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2007.01459.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Feather mites (Arachnida: Acari: Astigmata) feed mainly on secretions of the uropygial gland of birds. Here, we use analyses corrected for phylogeny and body size to show that there is a positive correlation between the size of this gland and mite abundance in passerine birds at an interspecific level during the breeding season, suggesting that the gland mediates interactions between mites and birds. As predicted on the basis of hypothesized waterproofing and antibiotic functions of uropygial gland secretions, riparian/marsh bird species had larger glands and higher mite loads than birds living in less mesic terrestrial environments. An unexpected pattern was a steeper relationship between mite load and gland size in migratory birds than in residents. If moderate mite loads are beneficial to a host but high loads detrimental, this could create complex selection regimes in which gland size influences mite load and vice versa. Mites may exert selective pressures on gland size of their hosts that has resulted in smaller glands among migratory bird species, suggesting that smaller glands may have evolved in these birds to attenuate a possible detrimental effect of feather mites when present in large numbers.
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- I Galván
- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, SpainCavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Valencia, SpainParque Natural del Carrascal de la Font Roja, Alcoi, SpainDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, SpainCavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Valencia, SpainParque Natural del Carrascal de la Font Roja, Alcoi, SpainDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, SpainCavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Valencia, SpainParque Natural del Carrascal de la Font Roja, Alcoi, SpainDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, SpainCavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Valencia, SpainParque Natural del Carrascal de la Font Roja, Alcoi, SpainDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, SpainCavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Valencia, SpainParque Natural del Carrascal de la Font Roja, Alcoi, SpainDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, SpainCavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Valencia, SpainParque Natural del Carrascal de la Font Roja, Alcoi, SpainDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, SpainCavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Valencia, SpainParque Natural del Carrascal de la Font Roja, Alcoi, SpainDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, SpainCavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Valencia, SpainParque Natural del Carrascal de la Font Roja, Alcoi, SpainDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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