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Niche breadth explains the range size of European-centred butterflies,but dispersal ability does not
Johannes Hausharter Sonia Rashid Johannes Wessely Patrick Strutzenberger Dietmar Moser Andreas Gattringer Konrad Fiedler Karl Hülber Stefan Dullinger 《Global Ecology and Biogeography》2023,32(9):1535-1548
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The breadth of ecological niches and dispersal abilities have long been discussed as important determinants of species' range sizes. However, studies directly comparing the relative effects of both factors are rare, taxonomically biased and revealed inconsistent results.Location
Europe.Time Period
Cenozoic.Major Taxa
Butterflies, Lepidoptera.Methods
We relate climate, diet and habitat niche breadth and two indicators of dispersal ability, wingspan and a dispersal tendency index, to the global range size of 369 European-centred butterfly species. The relative effects of these five predictors and their variation across the butterfly phylogeny were assessed by means of phylogenetic generalized least squares models and phylogenetically weighted regressions respectively.Results
Climate niche breadth was the most important single predictor, followed by habitat and diet niche breadth, while dispersal tendency and wingspan showed no relation to species' range size. All predictors together explained 59% of the variation in butterfly range size. However, the effects of each predictor varied considerably across families and genera.Main Conclusions
Range sizes of European-centred butterflies are strongly correlated with ecological niche breadth but apparently independent of dispersal ability. The magnitude of range size–niche breadth relationships is not stationary across the phylogeny and is often negatively correlated across the different dimensions of the ecological niche. This variation limits the generalizability of range size–trait relationships across broad taxonomic groups. 相似文献2.
Schönswetter P Lachmayer M Lettner C Prehsler D Rechnitzer S Reich DS Sonnleitner M Wagner I Hülber K Schneeweiss GM Trávnícek P Suda J 《Journal of plant research》2007,120(6):721-725
We explored the fine-scale distribution of cytotypes of the mountain plant Senecio carniolicus along an altitudinal transect in the Eastern Alps. Cytotypes showed a statistically significant altitudinal segregation with
diploids exclusively found in the upper part of the transect, whereas diploids and hexaploids co-occurred in the lower range.
Analysis of accompanying plant assemblages revealed significant differences between cytotypes along the entire transect but
not within the lower part only, where both cytotypes co-occur. This suggests the presence of ecological differentiation between
cytotypes with the diploid possessing the broader ecological niche. No tetraploids were detected, indicating the presence
of strong crossing barriers.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献
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Stefan Dullinger Thomas Mang Thomas Dirnböck Siegrun Ertl Andreas Gattringer Georg Grabherr Michael Leitner Karl Hülber 《Ecography》2011,34(4):576-587
The relative importance of niche requirements and dispersal limitation in controlling the landscape‐scale distribution of plants is still contentious. Local occurrence and abundance of alpine plants are commonly thought to be driven by abiotic site conditions due to pronounced environmental gradients over short distances. However, explicit tests of the additional role of dispersal‐related processes for alpine plant distribution patterns are lacking. Here, we combine niche‐based species distribution models with variables describing patch size and connectivity to evaluate if, besides abiotic limitations, spatial habitat configuration affects the occurrence and abundance of six plant species inhabiting patchy snowbed mosaics of the northeastern Calcareous Alps in Austria. Moreover, we assess if eventual effects of spatial patch configuration are more clearly detectable when calculating connectivity based on parameterized mechanistic dispersal kernels for both wind and animal vectors instead of using nearest neighbour metrics. We show that patch size and connectivity are significantly correlated to the occurrence of all and to the abundance of four out of six study species, although the relative importance of these variables, as compared to niche constraints, varies among species. In addition, connectivity measures derived from parameterized dispersal kernels were more closely related to occupancy, and in particular to abundance patterns than a simple nearest neighbour metric. The fitted kernels also suggest that dispersal by alpine chamois plays an important role for inter‐patch seed exchange. We conclude that, despite evident abiotic limitations, recurrent local extinctions and delayed re‐colonizations indeed play a role for the distribution of our study species, and that alpine plants may hence be less in equilibrium with their abiotic environment than commonly thought. Moreover, the relatively high long‐distance dispersal probabilities of animal kernels indicate that the ability of alpine plants to adapt their ranges to a rapidly warming climate may, among other factors, depend on the availability of dispersal services by large mammals. 相似文献
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Natural selection drives parallel divergence in the mountain plant Heliosperma pusillum s.l 下载免费PDF全文
Clara Bertel Ivana Rešetnik Božo Frajman Brigitta Erschbamer Karl Hülber Peter Schönswetter 《Oikos》2018,127(9):1355-1367
The evolution of species or ecotypes can occur gradually through neutral and adaptive genetic changes. To explore the influence of natural selection during early phases of divergence, morphological and ecological discontinuity and its adaptive significance were investigated in six pairs of alpine and independently evolved montane populations of Heliosperma pusillum s.l.; the latter are usually taxonomically recognised at the species rank in spite of their highly debatable taxonomic value. We tested whether environmental conditions – characterised by Landolt indicator values from vegetation surveys and temperature measurements – and morphology of alpine and montane populations differ discretely and in parallel across six population pairs. By reciprocal transplantation experiments in natural environments in two population pairs and in climate chambers for five population pairs we compared fitness of native versus non‐native individuals. Alpine and montane populations differed in environmental conditions and morphology within each pair. Morphological differentiation occurred in parallel and correlated with environmental, but not with genetic distances. In both environments, native individuals had higher establishment success and plant size. Differentiation of the independently evolved montane populations is driven by natural selection and parallel, independent adaptation in response to drought, lower irradiance and higher, less fluctuating temperatures in montane populations. Our study system exemplifies rapid, parallel evolution leading to morphologically and ecologically strongly divergent, though fully interfertile, ecotypes. 相似文献
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Adaptation to dissimilar habitats can trigger phenotypic and genetic differences between populations, which may, in the absence of gene flow, ultimately lead to ecological speciation. Reproductive isolation of diverging populations is a critical step at the onset of speciation. An excellent example for exploring the extent of reproductive isolation at early stages of speciation is provided by Heliosperma pusillum and H. veselskyi (Caryophyllaceae), two reciprocally non-monophyletic, ecologically differentiated species from the Alps. Interspecific gene flow—as revealed by recent genetic studies—is rare even between geographically close populations. Cross pollinations and fitness experiments revealed no evidence of intrinsic reproductive barriers, since fitness parameters measured under uniform conditions were not lower in inter- than in intraspecific crosses. Further, morphometric analyses of the offspring clearly showed that the differentiation of parental species is heritable. As parental phenotypes are likely adaptive, the intermediate morphology of hybrids may lead to reduced hybrid fitness in parental habitats. Altogether, H. pusillum and H. veselskyi provide an increasingly well characterised model system offering exciting insights into early stages of ecological speciation. 相似文献
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Changes in plant species richness over the last century in the eastern Swiss Alps: elevational gradient, bedrock effects and migration rates 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Areas of 2,800–3,000 m a.s.l. represent the alpine-nival ecotone in the Alps. This transition zone connecting the closed swards
of the alpine belt and the scattered vegetation of the nival belt may show particularly strong climate warming driven fluctuations
in plant species richness compared to the nival belt. To test this hypothesis, 12 summits within this range were investigated
in the canton of Grisons, Switzerland in 2004. Complete lists of vascular plant species consisting of 5–70 species were collected
on each summit and the elevation of the uppermost occurrence of each species was recorded. These data were compared to historical
records over 120 years in age. Within this time, vascular plant species richness increased by 11% per decade on summits in
the alpine-nival ecotone. Despite this considerable change, a comparison with nival summits did not support the hypothesis
that species richness increase at the alpine-nival ecotone is higher than in the nival belt. A general trend of upward migration
in the range of several metres per decade could be observed. Anemochorous species were more often found to be migrating than
zoochorous or autochorous species and migration was higher on calcareous than on siliceous bedrock. A comparison between the
summits with the adjacent slopes in our study revealed that changes in species number could be used as an indicator for climate-induced
changes—if at all—only for the narrow summit areas. 相似文献
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Günther Klonner Johannes Wessely Andreas Gattringer Dietmar Moser Iwona Dullinger Karl Hülber Sabine B. Rumpf Svenja Block Oliver Bossdorf Marta Carboni Luisa Conti Wayne Dawson Emily Haeuser Martin Hermy Tamara Münkemüller Madalin Parepa Wilfried Thuiller Sebastiaan Van der Veken Kris Verheyen Mark van Kleunen Franz Essl Stefan Dullinger 《Ecography》2019,42(9):1548-1557
Climate warming is supposed to enlarge the area climatically suitable to the naturalization of alien garden plants in temperate regions. However, the effects of a changing climate on the spread of naturalized ornamentals have not been evaluated by spatially and temporarily explicit range modelling at larger scales so far. Here, we assess how climate change and the frequency of cultivation interactively determine the spread of 15 ornamental plants over the 21st century in Europe. We coupled species distribution modelling with simulations of demography and dispersal to predict range dynamics of these species in annual steps across a 250 × 250 m raster of the study area. Models were run under four scenarios of climate warming and six levels of cultivation intensity. Cultivation frequency was implemented as size of the area used for planting a species. Although the area climatically suitable to the 15 species increases, on average, the area predicted to be occupied by them in 2090 shrinks under two of the three climate change scenarios. This contradiction obviously arises from dispersal limitations that were pronounced although we assumed that cultivation is spatially adapting to the changing climate. Cultivation frequency had a much stronger effect on species spread than climate change, and this effect was non‐linear. The area occupied increased sharply from low to moderate levels of cultivation intensity, but levelled off afterwards. Our simulations suggest that climate warming will not necessarily foster the spread of alien garden plants in Europe over the next decades. However, climatically suitable areas do increase and hence an invasion debt is likely accumulating. Restricting cultivation of species can be effective in preventing species spread, irrespective of how the climate develops. However, for being successful, they depend on high levels of compliance to keep propagule pressure at a low level. 相似文献