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Data used in: Phenological sensitivities to climate are similar in two Clarkia congeners: Indirect evidence for facilitation, convergence, niche conservatism, or genetic constraints
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Bumble bee niche overlap along an elevation gradient: How traits can inform novel competitive pressures under climate change
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Comparing climatic suitability and niche distances to explain populations responses to extreme climatic events
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Data for: Traits help explain species’ performance away from their climate niche centre
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Online electronic material for: Macroevolutionary dynamics of climatic niche space
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Data from: The sequential direct and indirect effects of mountain uplift, climatic niche and floral trait evolution on diversification dynamics in an Andean plant clade
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Climatic niche conservatism in a clade of disease vectors (Diptera: Phlebotominae)
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Data from: Climate niches structure a regional hybrid zone in <em>Sphagnum</em> (peatmoss, Bryophyta)
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Identifying climatic drivers of hybridization with a new ancestral niche reconstruction method
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Geographic distribution change and climatic niche change of Odonates in Great Britain
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Supplementary data to Clade-specific biogeographic history and climatic niche shifts of the southern Andean-southern Brazilian disjunction in plants
<p>Georeferenced locality data points used in the climatic analyses. Column "clade" indicate whether the species corresponds to the southern Andean (SA) or to the southern Brazilian (SB) clade. See the book chapter for details.</p> <p>Part of this dataset was built with information downloaded from GBIF (www.GBIF.org) for the following taxa:</p> <p><em>Araucaria</em><br> GBIF.org (06 November 2014) GBIF Occurrence Download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.2nc359<br> GBIF.org (06 November 2014) GBIF Occurrence Download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.aym9bi</p> <p><em>Butia</em><br> GBIF.org (30th May 2018) GBIF Occurrence Download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.k42ama</p> <p><em>Colliguaja</em><br> GBIF.org (28 November 2014) GBIF Occurrence Download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.nvqo4p<br> GBIF.org (13th January 2016) GBIF Occurrence Download http://doi.org/10.15468/dl.aoovox<br> GBIF.org (15th May 2018) GBIF Occurrence Download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.mownio</p> <p><em>Griselinia</em><br> GBIF.org (28 November 2014) GBIF Occurrence Download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.eytdse</p>
Data from: Marine latitudinal diversity gradients, niche conservatism, and out of the tropics and Arctic: climatic sensitivity of small organisms
<ul> <li>Aim</li> </ul> <p>The latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) is a consequence of evolutionary and ecological mechanisms acting over long history, and thus is best investigated with organisms that have rich fossil records. However, combined neontological-paleontological investigations are mostly limited to large, shelled invertebrates, which keeps our mechanistic understanding of LDGs in its infancy. This paper aims to describe the modern meiobenthic ostracod LDG and to explore the possible controlling factors and the evolutionary mechanisms of this large-scale biodiversity pattern.</p> <ul> <li>Location</li> </ul> <p>Present-day Western North Atlantic</p> <ul> <li>Taxon</li> </ul> <p>Ostracoda</p> <ul> <li>Methods</li> </ul> <p>We compiled census data from ostracods living in shallow marine environments of the western North Atlantic Ocean. Using these data, we documented the marine LDG with multiple metrics of alpha, beta (nestedness and turnover), and gamma diversity, and we tested whether macroecological patterns could be governed by different environmental factors, including temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, pH and primary productivity. We also explored the geologic age distribution of ostracod genera to investigate the evolutionary mechanisms underpinning the LDG.</p> <ul> <li>Results</li> </ul> <p>Our results show that temperature and climatic niche conservatism are important in setting LDGs of these small, poorly-dispersing organisms. We also found evidence for some dispersal-driven spatial dynamics in the ostracod LDG. Compared to patterns observed in marine bivalves, however, dispersal dynamics were weaker and they were bi-directional, rather than following the "out-of-the-tropics" model.</p> <ul> <li>Main Conclusions</li> </ul> <p>Our detailed analyses revealed that meiobenthic organisms, which comprise two-thirds of marine diversity, do not always follow the same rules as larger, better-studied organisms. Our findings suggest that the under-studied majority of biodiversity may be more sensitive to climate than are well-studied, large organisms. This implies that the impacts of ongoing Anthropocene climatic change on marine ecosystems may be much more serious than presently thought.</p>
Seasonal niche tracking of climate emerges at the population level in a migratory bird
Seasonal animal migration is a widespread phenomenon. At the species level, it has been shown that many migratory animal species track similar climatic conditions throughout the year. However, it remains unclear whether such niche tracking pattern is a direct consequence of individual behaviour or emerges at the population or species level through behavioural variability. Here, we estimated seasonal niche overlap and seasonal niche tracking at the individual and population level of Central European White Storks (Ciconia ciconia). We quantified niche tracking for both weather and climate conditions to control for the different spatio-temporal scales over which ecological processes may operate. Our results indicate that niche tracking is a bottom-up process. Individuals mainly track weather conditions while climatic niche tracking mainly emerges at the population level. This result may be partially explained by a high degree of intra- and inter-individual variation in niche overlap between seasons. Understanding how migratory individuals, populations and species respond to seasonal environments is key for anticipating the impacts of global environmental changes.
Developmental life history is associated with variation in rates of climatic niche evolution in a salamander adaptive radiation
Rates of climatic niche evolution vary widely across the tree of life and are strongly associated with rates of diversification and the accumulation of species diversity among clades. However, why the climatic niche evolves more rapidly in some lineages than others remains unclear. Variation in life history traits often plays a key role in determining the environmental conditions under which species can survive, and therefore, could impact the rate at which lineages can expand in available climatic niche space. Here, we explore the relationships among life-history variation, climatic niche breadth, and rates of climatic niche evolution. We reconstruct a new phylogeny for the genus Desmognathus, an adaptive radiation of salamanders distributed across eastern North America, based on nuclear and mitochondrial genes. Using this phylogeny, we estimate rates of climatic niche evolution for species with long, short, and no aquatic larval stage. Rates of climatic niche evolution are unrelated to the mean climatic niche breadth of species with different life histories. Instead, we find that the evolution of a short larval period promotes greater exploration of climatic space, leading to increased rates of climatic niche evolution across species having this trait. We propose that morphological and physiological differences associated with variation in larval stage length underlie the heterogeneous ability of lineages to explore climatic niche space. Rapid rates of climatic niche evolution among lineages with short larval periods were an important dimension of the clade's adaptive radiation and likely contributed to the rapid rate of lineage accumulation following the evolution of an aquatic life history in this clade. Our results show how variation in a key life-history trait can constrain or promote divergence of the climatic niche, leading to variation in rates of climatic niche evolution among lineages.
Scaling between macro- to microscale climatic data reveals strong phylogenetic inertia in niche evolution in plethodontid salamanders
<p>Macroclimatic niches are indirect and potentially inadequate predictors of the realized environmental conditions that many species experience. Consequently, analyses of niche evolution based on macroclimatic data alone may incompletely represent the evolutionary dynamics of species niches. Yet, understanding how an organisms' climatic (Grinnellian) niche responds to changing macroclimatic conditions is of vital importance for predicting their potential response to global change. In this study, we integrate microclimatic and macroclimatic data across 26 species of plethodontid salamanders to portray the relationship between microclimatic niche evolution in response to changing macroclimate. We demonstrate stronger phylogenetic signal in microclimatic niche variables than at the macroclimatic scale. Even so, we find that the microclimatic niche tracks climatic changes at the macroscale, but with a phylogenetic lag at million-year timescales. We hypothesize that behavioral tracking of the microclimatic niche over space and phenology generates the lag: salamanders preferentially select microclimates similar to their ancestral conditions rather than adapting with changes in physiology. We demonstrate that macroclimatic variables are weak predictors of niche evolution and that incorporating spatial scale into analyses of niche evolution is critical for predicting responses to climate change.</p>
Data for: Climatic-niche breadth, niche position, and speciation in lizards and snakes
<p><strong>Aim: </strong>The climatic niche is associated with diversification in many groups of animals and plants. However, the relationships between climatic-niche breadth evolution, climatic-niche position evolution, and speciation remain underexplored. It is particularly unclear whether changes in climatic-niche breadth are related to diversification. We tested two hypotheses relating niche breadth, niche position, and speciation using climatic data in Squamata (lizards and snakes), one of the largest radiations of tetrapods. These hypotheses were: (1) the oscillation hypothesis (niche breadth changes along with niche position and speciation); and (2) the musical chairs hypothesis (niche breadth remains relatively constant when niche position changes during speciation).</p> <p><strong>Location:</strong> Global.</p> <p><strong>Taxon:</strong> Squamata (lizards and snakes).</p> <p><strong>Methods: </strong>We estimated rates of speciation and evolutionary rates for both climatic-niche position and climatic-niche breadth for 5,320 squamate species. We tested relationships among these rates using Bayesian phylogenetic generalized linear-mixed models.</p> <p><strong>Results: </strong>Higher speciation rates were associated with higher rates of evolution in niche position and in niche breadth. Faster rates of change in niche breadth were related to narrower niches and faster rates of change in niche position.</p> <p><strong>Main Conclusions: </strong>Our results support the oscillation hypothesis to explain the relationships between speciation and changes in climatic niche position and climatic niche breadth. We found that species that changed climatic-niche breadths more rapidly: (1) speciated faster; (2) evolved towards narrower niche breadths; and (3) changed climatic-niche positions more rapidly. These results suggest that the oscillation between wider and narrower niches is coupled with climatic-niche divergence and speciation. These conclusions may apply to many other groups of plants and animals in which speciation is often related to climatic-niche divergence.</p>
Evaluating alternative study designs for optimal sampling of species' climatic niches
Ecologists have traditionally studied intraspecific variation by sampling species across their geographic ranges. However, whether this classic approach produces samples that accurately represent species' climatic niches is largely unknown. Alternative, niche-based study designs using species' climatic niches to inform sampling locations should more efficiently and completely capture the breadth of the niche, but the magnitude of this difference and how it may vary is unclear. Here we use conifers as a model system to explore these issues and reach specific recommendations for future sampling designs. Using an independent dataset of high-quality species' occurrences, we first show that recent publications examining variation across geographic space do a poor job of capturing the full breadth of species' niches, such that on average, only 22% of species' niche space was sampled. This was also true of a large compiled database, the International Tree-Ring Data Bank (ITRDB), which yielded average niche coverage of only 45%. Finally, we simulated common sampling designs (i.e., random points, grids, and transects) in both geographic and niche-based sampling frameworks. Using two sampling metrics, niche coverage and niche undersampling, we measured how completely and evenly these simulated studies characterized the niches of 64 North American conifers. Niche-based sampling better represented species' niches than geographic sampling, with the magnitude of this difference depending on study design and sample size. Niche-based gridded study designs achieved the most complete sampling at all but the smallest sample sizes, covering ~15-25% more of a species' niche than similar designs implemented geographically. With fewer than 10 samples, however, all study designs performed poorly, and niche-based transects achieved slightly higher niche coverage. Consequently, when more than a handful of samples are collected, we recommend that studies seeking to characterize variation across a species' niche consider using a gridded study design implemented in a niche-based sampling framework.
Evidence for niche conservatism in alpine beetles under a climate-driven species pump model
<p>Aim</p> <p>Past glacial climate cycles have generated lineage diversity in alpine habitats, acting as a climate-driven species pump. It is not clear how much this process contributes to ecological diversification of alpine species. To examine this problem, we test patterns of genetic and phenotypic divergence in two co-distributed species complexes of flightless alpine ground beetles. Greater differentiation in ecologically-important functional traits would indicate that ecological selection is an outcome of oscillating climate change, whereas greater differentiation in non-ecological traits would indicate niche conservatism.</p> <p>Location</p> <p>The Cascades Range and Trinity Mountains of western North America.</p> <p>Taxon</p> <p>Members of the <i>Nebria paradisi</i> and <i>N. vandykei</i> species complexes (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae: Nebriinae)</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>We generated genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism data and mitochondrial sequence data, as well as morphological and physiological data, to compare populations spanning the range of both species. Phylogenetic and population genetic analyses were used to infer the relationships among taxa and populations within each species complex, as well as historical population demography. Support vector machines were used to test for classification of taxa and populations based on ecomorphological, ecophysiological, and male reproductive traits. Mantel tests were then used to assess statistical associations between phenotypic and genetic divergence among populations.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The <i>N. vandykei</i> and <i>N. paradisi</i> species complexes are each comprised of genetically distinctive populations exhibiting long-term demographic declines. Each phylogeny supports multiple monophyletic groups with geographical cohesion. By examining phenotypic traits among populations in both species' complexes, we show that reproductive trait divergence can discriminate species and population status more effectively than ecomorphological or ecophysiological traits. Reproductive and genetic divergence are significantly correlated in the <i>N. vandykei</i> species complex.</p> <p>Main Conclusions</p> <p>We found limited evidence of ecological selection acting on functional traits. Instead, reproductive and genetic divergence evolved among isolated populations in both species complexes, suggesting niche conservatism may be a common outcome in alpine species diversification.</p>
Plant specialisation may limit climate‐induced vegetation change to within topographic and edaphic niches on a sub‐Antarctic island
<p>Extreme changes in temperature, rainfall and wind regimes have been correlated with plant species range expansion upslope on sub-Antarctic islands. Ongoing climatic changes are expected to continue driving changes in species distributions globally, but niche specialisations may limit the capacity for range shifts. We hypothesised that non-climatic characteristics of ecological niches of vascular plant species could limit climate induced range shifts. We determined the altitudinal ranges of vascular plant species (n=13) on sub-Antarctic Marion Island and measured air temperature, topographic, foliar and soil properties along transects on geologically distinct substrates. Climatic and non-climatic associations were determined using multiple linear regression and boosted regression tree (BRT) analyses. The degree of niche specialisation was determined using outlying mean index analysis (OMI) within the range of species on the island. Several species (7 of 13) exhibited niche-specialisation. Correlation analysis revealed that edaphic properties including soil depth, loss on ignition, the principal component of most soil nutrients (Mg, Cl, K, Ca, Cu, Zn, P, S), Si, Mn and clay dominated the BRT prediction of overall plant cover. Although air temperature was correlated with plant cover in linear models, model simplification dropped temperature in both BRT and linear models. As a consequence, multiple determinants, including temperature, climate, topography and soils control the distribution of vascular plant species on this sub-Antarctic island.</p>
VCF datasets and analysis scripts for: The combination of genomic offset and niche modelling provides insights into climate change-driven vulnerability
<p>Global warming is increasingly exacerbating biodiversity loss. Populations locally adapted to spatially heterogeneous environments may respond differentially to climate change, but this intraspecific variation has only recently been considered when modelling vulnerability under climate change. Here, we incorporate intraspecific variation in genomic offset and ecological niche modelling to estimate climate change-driven vulnerability in two bird species in the Sino-Himalayan Mountains. We found that the cold-tolerant populations show higher genomic offset but risk less challenge for niche suitability decline under future climate than the warm-tolerant populations. Based on a genome-niche index estimated by combining genomic offset and niche suitability change, we identified the populations with the least genome-niche interruption as potential donors for evolutionary rescue, i.e., the populations tolerant to climate change. We evaluated potential rescue routes via a landscape genetic analysis. Overall, we demonstrate that the integration of genomic offset, niche suitability modelling, and landscape connectivity can improve climate change-driven vulnerability assessments and facilitate effective conservation management.</p>
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