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Calibration areas in ecological niche and species distribution modelling: Unravelling approaches and concepts J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Octavio Rojas‐Soto, Juan S. Forero‐Rodríguez, Alejandra Galindo‐Cruz, Claudio Mota‐Vargas, Keisy D. Parra‐Henao, Alexander Peña‐Peniche, Javier Piña‐Torres, Karen Rojas‐Herrera, Juan D. Sánchez‐Rodríguez, Felipe A. Toro‐Cardona, Carlos D. Trinidad‐Domínguez
AimThe calibration area (CA) corresponds to the geographic region used by different algorithms that estimate the species' environmental preferences and delimit its geographic distribution. This study intended to identify, test and compare current literature's most commonly employed approaches and methods for CA creation, highlighting the differences with the accessible area (M), a frequently misapplied
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Inferring current and Last Glacial Maximum distributions are improved by physiology‐relevant climatic variables in cold‐adapted ectotherms J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Michaël Guillon, Fernando Martínez‐Freiría, Nahla Lucchini, Sylvain Ursenbacher, Yann Surget‐Groba, Masa Kageyama, Frédéric Lagarde, Hervé Cubizolle, Olivier Lourdais
AimEcological niche‐based models (ENM) frequently rely on bioclimatic variables (BioV) to reconstruct biogeographic scenarios for species evolution, ignoring mechanistic relations. We tested if climatic predictors relevant to species hydric and thermal physiology better proximate distribution patterns and support location of Pleistocene refugia derived from phylogeographic studies.LocationThe Western
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Weak phylogenetic effect on specialist plant assemblages and their persistence on habitat islands J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Adam Klimeš, Rafael Molina‐Venegas, Angelino Carta, Milan Chytrý, Luisa Conti, Lars Götzenberger, Michal Hájek, Michal Horsák, Borja Jiménez‐Alfaro, Jitka Klimešová, Francisco E. Méndez‐Castro, David Zelený, Gianluigi Ottaviani
AimThe influence of species phylogenetic relatedness on the formation of insular assemblages remains understudied in functional island biogeography, especially for terrestrial habitat islands (i.e. distinct habitat patches embedded in a matrix that differ in the prevailing environmental conditions). Here, we tested three eco‐evolutionary hypotheses: (1) functional specialization of species (i.e. specialism)
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Eurasian drylands are both evolutionary cradles and museums of Nitrariaceae diversity J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Sheng‐Dan Wu, Huan‐Wen Peng, Lian Lian, Rosa Del C. Ortiz, Andrey S. Erst, Florian Jabbour, Wei Wang
AimDrylands cover about 41% of Earth's land surface and are home to fragile biota with high levels of endemism. Two hypothetical models, i.e., cradle and museum, have been proposed to account for present‐day species diversity in an ecoregion or biome. We investigated macroevolutionary patterns to test these two different models in Nitrariaceae, a characteristic component of the Eurasian dryland ecosystem
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Niche position accounts for the positive occupancy–abundance relationship of lake fishes J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Zhijun Xia, Jani Heino, Jianwei Wang, Tao Chang, Mingzheng Li
AimIf the positive occupancy–abundance relationship prevails, locally abundant species are widely distributed. Although broadly supported, studies on lake fishes have thus far contributed little to this topic, especially at intermediate and small spatial scales. Here, the main objective was to investigate the relationship between occupancy and abundance of lake fish species within a large lake, as
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How taxonomic change influences forecasts of the Linnean shortfall (and what we can do about it)? J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Thainá Lessa, Juliana Stropp, Joaquín Hortal, Richard J. Ladle
The gap between the number of described species and the number of species that actually exist is known as the Linnean shortfall and is of fundamental importance for biogeography and conservation. Unsurprisingly, there have been many attempts to quantify its extent for different taxa and regions. In this Perspective, we argue that such forecasts remain highly problematic because the extent of the shortfall
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Going back for the future: Incorporating Pleistocene fossil records of saiga antelope into habitat suitability models J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Mollie Mills, Danielle Schreve, Owen Middleton, Christopher J. Sandom
AimMany species have suffered anthropogenic range contraction and no longer occupy all available suitable environmental conditions. This is particularly problematic for the construction of habitat suitability models (HSMs), which assume that a species' contemporary range reflects its full species–environment relationship. HSMs therefore risk underestimating suitable environment areas, and misinforming
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Time since first naturalization is key to explaining non‐native plant invasions on islands J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Fabio Mologni, Peter J. Bellingham, Ewen K. Cameron, Anthony E. Wright
AimInvestigating the extent of insular invasions by non‐native species (i.e., the number of islands they occupy) is central to island conservation. However, interrelationships among plant life history traits, naturalization histories, and island characteristics in determining island occupancy by non‐native plant species are poorly understood. We investigated whether island occupancy by different non‐native
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Phylogenetic origin of an insect fauna at the boundary of the Palaearctic and Oriental realms: Evidence from ‘site‐based’ mitogenomics J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Rui‐E Nie, Lu‐Lu Li, Anderson Feijó, Mei‐Xia Yang, Ming Bai, Thomas J. Creedy, Xu Jin, Jia‐Sheng Hao, Yong‐Ying Ruan, Hua‐Xi Liu, Beulah H. Garner, Ladislav Bocak, Xing‐Ke Yang, Alfried P. Vogler
AimKnowledge of taxonomy and species distributions in highly diverse lineages of invertebrates remains too incomplete for the study of biogeographical patterns at the global scale. This limits the understanding of processes leading to the formation and maintenance of boundaries between major biogeographical realms. Site‐based metagenomic approaches may provide an alternative source of data for inference
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Revealing the palaeoecology of silent taxa: selecting proxy species from associations in modern vegetation data J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Jacqui M. M. Vanderhoorn, Janet M. Wilmshurst, Sarah J. Richardson, Thomas R. Etherington, George L. W. Perry
AimSpecies severely under‐represented in fossil pollen records leave gaps in interpretations and reconstructions of past vegetation. These ‘silent taxa’ leave little or no trace due to low pollen production, dispersal, preservation and taxonomic resolution. An approach for including them is through associating them with other species with reliable pollen representation. Here, we demonstrate a method
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Spatial extent predicts Andean epiphyte biodiversity responses to habitat loss and fragmentation across human‐modified landscapes J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Edicson Parra‐Sanchez, David P. Edwards
AimHuman‐driven landscape processes such as habitat loss and fragmentation act on biodiversity, but their effects are mediated by the spatial scale at which they are observed. We aim to analyse the scale‐of‐effects (direction and spatial extent) of landscape‐scale processes that best explain species richness and abundance across epiphyte communities.LocationNeotropics, Northern Andes, Colombia, Eastern
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Non‐natives are linked to higher plant diversity across spatial scales J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Suzanne Lefebvre, Josiane Segar, Ingmar R. Staude
AimAlthough non‐native and invasive plants often pose a significant threat to biodiversity, global‐scale studies have yet to conclusively demonstrate a systematic pattern of reduced native plant diversity in areas affected by these invasions. Here, we aim to explore the association of non‐native and invasive plants with the species richness and evenness of plant communities from the local to global
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Distribution, diversity and diversification from DNA barcoding perspective: The case of Gammarus radiation in the ancient Lake Ohrid J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Tomasz Mamos, Michał Grabowski, Lidia Sworobowicz, Walter Salzburger, Sasho Trajanovski, Denis Copilaş‐Ciocianu, Serena Mucciolo, Anna Wysocka
AimA detailed, comparative DNA‐barcoding and morphospecies‐based overview of the vertical and horizontal distribution of Lake Ohrid's endemic Gammarus species flock is provided. Re‐evaluation of the time frame for the onset of the species flock and identification of events that putatively influenced diversification processes.LocationLake Ohrid, Balkan Peninsula, Europe.TaxonGammarus species flock (Amphipoda
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Elevational patterns and assembly processes of multifaceted bird diversity in a subtropical mountain system J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Haoxian Lin, Xiaoyi Wang, Maojun Zhong, Ke Tang, Yuanbao Du, Haigen Xu, Jianfeng Yi, Wei Liu, Junhua Hu
AimMountain systems harbour disproportionate biodiversity on Earth. However, the mechanism underlying community assembly along elevational gradients remains unclear due to the complexity of environmental constraints and biotic interactions. Birds play a crucial role in mountain system and are sensitive to environmental changes, making them an ideal taxon for exploring diversity patterns and the underlying
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Some like it hot: Past and present phylogeography of a desert dwelling gecko across the Arabian Peninsula J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Lukáš Pola, Pierre‐André Crochet, Philippe Geniez, Mohammed Shobrak, Salem Busais, Daniel Jablonski, Rafaqat Masroor, Timur Abduraupov, Salvador Carranza, Jiří Šmíd
AimDeserts represent dynamic ecosystems that support communities of endemic and specialised species. We analysed the role of present and past climatic conditions in shaping the distribution of the widespread Bunopus geckos in the Arabian and south‐west Asian deserts. We studied their phylogeographic and demographic history to test whether the Bunopus geckos colonised Arabia from Asia or, vice versa
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Northern pikas experience reduced occupancy due to surrounding human land use despite the occurrence of suitable microclimates J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Tomoki Sakiyama, Jorge García Molinos
Despite warming temperatures, some species are found persisting at the trailing edge of their distribution. Microclimates provided by complex topography are considered a key factor in these cases of range stationarity, buffering stress from exposure to warming and enabling persistence. However, for species with trailing-edges located in human-modified landscapes, refugial conditions provided by microclimates
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Dispersal constrains the biotic connectivity of mountain assemblages J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 R. Peña, J. R. Obeso, P. Laiolo
AimClimate warming is shifting the bioclimatic optima of species towards mountaintops, but the ability of organisms to track these changes also depends on their dispersal skills. Here, we assessed the role of dispersal over niche‐driven processes in connecting assemblages along mountain slopes and between mountain massifs.LocationCantabrian Mountains, Spain.TaxonBirds (Animalia; Aves) and Lichens (Fungi;
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The role of ecological niche conservatism in the evolution of bird distributional patterns in Mesoamerican seasonally dry forests J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Pak Tsun Chan, Joaquín Arroyo‐Cabrales, David A. Prieto‐Torres, Luis A. Sánchez‐González
AimDue to its complex biogeographical and ecological history, the seasonally dry forests (SDF) of Mesoamerica are considered a biodiversity hotspot. SDF are currently distributed in relatively large and continuous, but isolated areas, in which there are both high total and endemic species numbers. Among birds, few species are shared across SDF patches; other species are endemic to one of these; and
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Geography and ecology shape the phylogenetic composition of Amazonian tree communities J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Bruno Garcia Luize, David Bauman, Hans ter Steege, Clarisse Palma-Silva, Iêda Leão do Amaral, Luiz de Souza Coelho, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho, Rafael P. Salomão, Florian Wittmann, Carolina V. Castilho, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim, Juan Ernesto Guevara, Oliver L. Phillips, William E. Magnusson, Daniel Sabatier, Juan David Cardenas Revilla, Jean-François Molino
Amazonia hosts more tree species from numerous evolutionary lineages, both young and ancient, than any other biogeographic region. Previous studies have shown that tree lineages colonized multiple edaphic environments and dispersed widely across Amazonia, leading to a hypothesis, which we test, that lineages should not be strongly associated with either geographic regions or edaphic forest types.
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Parental material and climate jointly determine the biomass and diversity of soil microbial communities along an elevational gradient on a subtropical karst mountain J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Xianjin He, Lian Zeng, Guangyu Zhu, M. D. Farnon Ellwood, Lihua Zhou, Junlong Huang, Chenchen Wang, Wei Li, Dunmei Lin, Pei Wei, Shijun Liu, Min Luo, Yonghua Zhang, Yongchuan Yang
AimClimate is widely understood to determine elevational patterns of soil microbial communities, whereas the effects of parental material are uncertain. Changes in the composition of parental materials along elevational transects could also affect soil microbial communities by influencing soil pH and nutrient availability. Here, we aim to illustrate the combined effects of climate and parental material
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Sampling completeness changes perceptions of continental scale climate–species richness relationships in odonates J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Fernanda Alves-Martins, Juliana Stropp, Leandro Juen, Richard J. Ladle, Jorge M. Lobo, Javier Martinez-Arribas, Paulo De Marco Júnior, Leandro Schlemmer Brasil, Victor Rennan Santos Ferreira, Rafael Costa Bastos, Alex Córdoba-Aguilar, Emmy Fiorella Medina-Espinoza, Silvia Dutra, Diogo Silva Vilela, Adolfo Cordero-Rivera, Alejandro del Palacio, Alonso Ramírez, Anderson André Carvalho-Soares, Antonio
Insects are one of the least studied taxa, with most species lacking basic ecological and biogeographical information. This problem is particularly acute in the tropics, where low sampling effort hampers accurate estimates of species richness at scale and potentially confounds efforts to identify the drivers of biogeographical gradients. Here, we evaluate the quality of the data on the distribution
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Multiple processes jointly determine ecological uniqueness across forest plant life-forms in Northeast China J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Yue Chen, Jonathan A. Myers, Alejandro Ordonez, Jinghua Yu, Ji Ye, Fei Lin, Shuai Fang, Zikun Mao, Xugao Wang
Ecological uniqueness is an essential component of biodiversity. However, the mechanisms underlying patterns of ecological uniqueness remain unresolved. This study aims to assess the relative importance as well as interactive roles of four hypothesized processes (regional climate filtering, local environmental filtering, biotic heterogeneity and disturbance intensity [DI]) in shaping ecological uniqueness
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Next-generation species delimitation and taxonomy: Implications for biogeography J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Miguel Vences, Aurélien Miralles, Christophe Dufresnes
An accurate species-level taxonomy is paramount for biogeographical research, and conversely, biogeographical data are of importance for species delimitation. We here review recent developments and future perspectives of taxonomy of direct relevance for biogeographers. The understanding that species are independently evolving segments of population-level lineages, the rise of integrative approaches
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Climate-related variation of metabolic rate across the distribution of a broadly tolerant invasive forest pest J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Sean D. Powers, Lily M. Thompson, Dylan Parry, Kristine L. Grayson, Eloy Martinez, Salvatore J. Agosta
Metabolic rate is a widely studied physiological species trait related to energetics, climate, and geographical distributions. Hypotheses have been proposed to explain variation in metabolic rate, but evidence has been mixed due to the limited sampling scope of intraspecific studies. Successful biological invasions offer a unique opportunity to examine the development of intraspecific physiological
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Decomposing drivers in avian insectivory: Large-scale effects of climate, habitat and bird diversity J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Laura Schillé, Elena Valdés-Correcher, Frédéric Archaux, Flavius Bălăcenoiu, Mona Chor Bjørn, Michal Bogdziewicz, Thomas Boivin, Manuela Branco, Thomas Damestoy, Maarten de Groot, Jovan Dobrosavljević, Mihai-Leonard Duduman, Anne-Maïmiti Dulaurent, Samantha Green, Jan Grünwald, Csaba Béla Eötvös, Maria Faticov, Pilar Fernandez-Conradi, Elisabeth Flury, David Funosas, Andrea Galmán, Martin M. Gossner
Climate is a major driver of large-scale variability in biodiversity, as a likely result of more intense biotic interactions under warmer conditions. This idea fuelled decades of research on plant-herbivore interactions, but much less is known about higher-level trophic interactions. We addressed this research gap by characterizing both bird diversity and avian predation along a climatic gradient at
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The relationships between species age and range size J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Qinfeng Guo, Hong Qian, Jian Zhang, Pengcheng Liu
Species range size is a central topic in macroecology, biogeography and conservation biology. Species age has been frequently regarded as a contributor to range size in previous studies on range size, but this has rarely been specifically examined. Using global data from four living terrestrial vertebrate classes (birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians) as a case study, we examine how species range
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Comparative phylogeography shows congruent co-divergence in Neotropical seasonally dry forest and savanna tree species J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Luciana Cristina Vitorino, Mateus Neri Oliveira Reis, Warita Alves Melo, Rosane G. Collevatti
The response of South American seasonally dry tropical forest (SDTF) and savanna species to the Quaternary climate changes is still poorly understood. Here we use multi-model inference approach to compare the phylogeography and demographic history of five trumpet tree species (also known as pau-d'arco) and draw general biogeographical patterns: Handroanthus impetiginosus, H. ochraceus, H. serratifolius
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Tectonically driven climate change and the spread of temperate biomes: Insights from dragon pseudoscorpions (Pseudotyrannochthoniidae), a globally distributed arachnid lineage J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Danilo Harms, Mark S. Harvey, J. Dale Roberts, Stephanie F. Loria
Understanding the historical biogeography of the Earth's oldest terrestrial lineages provides insights into lineage diversification in relation to plate tectonics, climate change and biome shifts at maximum timescales. We investigate the biogeography of an ancient arachnid family, dragon pseudoscorpions, which are found today in mesic (mostly temperate) forests on all continents except Antarctica and
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A shift in the host web occupancy of dew-drop spiders associated with genetic divergence in the Southwest Pacific J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Noraya U. Elias, Mae A. Responte, Cheng-Yu Wu, Yi-Fan Chiu, Po Peng, Hauchuan Liao, Rafe M. Brown, Yong-Chao Su
We assessed the population genetic structure of the kleptoparasitic spider Argyrodes bonadea across the Southwestern Pacific islands. Our aim is to evaluate the impact of overseas distances and, in particular, the Kerama gap, as potential drivers of genetic differentiation. If no relationship exists, then we assume dispersal following adaptive change as alternative non-vicariant mechanism that generates
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Uncovering the cause of breakup between species' range limits and niche limits under climate warming J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Darío Sánchez-Castro, Theofania-Sotiria Patsiou, Antoine Perrier, Judith Schepers, Yvonne Willi
Global climate change has been linked to shifts in species' geographic and elevational distributions, with taxa varying in responsiveness. This variation may be due to a time lag in response or climate alone not being a simple determinant of distribution limits. To tease apart the role of climate in distribution, we compared the temperature response of predicted occurrence revealed by ecological niche
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The Rapa Nui Little Ice Age drought: Evidence, potential causes and socioecological impact J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Valentí Rull
The occurrence of a century-scale drought on the small subtropical island of Rapa Nui/Easter Island (SE Pacific; 27°06′45”S-109°21′22”W) between c. 1570 CE and 1720 CE was first proposed by Cañellas-Boltà et al. (2013). The evidence was a sedimentary gap indicating the desiccation of Lake Raraku, one of the three permanent freshwater sources of the island, together with Lake Kao and the Aroi mire.
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Clay larvae do not accurately measure biogeographic patterns in predation J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Antonio Rodriguez-Campbell, Olivia Rahn, Mariana C. Chiuffo, Anna L. Hargreaves
Spatial variation in predation can shape geographic patterns in ecology and evolution, but testing how predation varies across ecosystems is challenging as differing species compositions and defensive adaptations can mask underlying patterns. Recently, biogeography has borrowed a tool from ecology: clay prey models. But clay models have not been adequately tested for geographic comparisons, and a well-known
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Moving with your mutualist: Predicted climate-induced mismatch between Proteaceae species and their avian pollinators J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Opeyemi A. Adedoja, Carsten F. Dormann, Anina Coetzee, Sjirk Geerts
Climate change influences species distribution in space and time, but predicting the overlap in the range of interacting species under different climate scenarios remains a challenge. Here, we explore how climate change influences shifts in species ranges among mutualists.
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Palaearctic origin and repeated dispersal over the world shaped the biogeographic history of the saprophytic genus Coprinopsis (Psathyrellaceae, Basidiomycota) J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Bárbara Letícia Botura Schünemann, Marcelo Reginato, Rosa Mara Borges da Silveira
The biogeographic history of most fungi is still poorly known, as well as the patterns and processes responsible for their diversification. Recent studies uncovered that most fungi have originated and present higher diversification rates in the temperate zone. The distributional pattern known for fungi is also different from many plants, animals and microbes. Using the most comprehensive phylogeny
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Climatic-niche breadth, niche position, and speciation in lizards and snakes J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Matthew Owen Moreira, John J. Wiens, Carlos Fonseca, Danny Rojas
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
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From the mountains to the sea: Rethinking Mediterranean glacial refugia as dynamic entities J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Andrea Chiocchio, Luigi Maiorano, Alice Pezzarossa, Roberta Bisconti, Daniele Canestrelli
Glacial refugia are areas of primary importance for the evolution and conservation of biodiversity. Yet, their geographic location remains loosely defined even in intensively studied areas, preventing a thorough understanding of their role in the spatiotemporal biodiversity dynamics. With this study, we aim to locate the major glacial refugia within the biodiversity hotspot of the Italian peninsula
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Cerrado bat community assembly is determined by both present-day and historical factors J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 D. C. Silva, H. F. M. Oliveira, F. M. C. B. Domingos
To investigate the influence of ecological factors, geologic and climatic history on current diversity patterns of bat communities. We predicted that (i) our three different biodiversity dimensions (species richness, functional and phylogenetic diversity) will have a positive relationship with habitat heterogeneity; (ii) variation in phylogenetic diversity will be positively influenced by elevation;
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Ice age land bridges to continental islands: Repeated migration of the forest-dwelling sable in northeastern Asia J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Gohta Kinoshita, Takuma Sato, Shota Murakami, Vladimir Monakhov, Alexey P. Kryukov, Lyubov V. Frisman, Yoshihiro Tsunamoto, Yoshihisa Suyama, Takahiro Murakami, Hitoshi Suzuki, Jun J. Sato
The continental island system comprising Sakhalin, Hokkaido and the southern Kuril Islands (SHSK) in northeastern Asia serves as one of the southernmost habitats for many boreal and arctic organisms, with colonization via land bridges formed during glacial periods. To understand the impacts of past land-bridge formation under Quaternary climate changes across SHSK, we investigated the demographic history
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Machine learning and phylogenetic models identify predictors of genetic variation in Neotropical amphibians J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Luis Amador, Irvin Arroyo-Torres, Lisa N. Barrow
Intraspecific genetic variation is key for adaptation and survival in changing environments and is known to be influenced by many factors, including population size, dispersal and life-history traits. We investigated genetic variation within Neotropical amphibian species to provide insights into how natural history traits, phylogenetic relatedness, climatic and geographic characteristics can explain
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Biotic interactions vary across species' ranges and are likely conserved through geological time J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Iulian Gherghel, Ryan Andrew Martin
The evolutionary interactions between western spadefoot toads (genus Spea) represent a textbook example of character displacement, facilitated by dietary specialization of one Spea species on fairy shrimp (Anostraca) when all three co-occur. The aim of this study is to understand the covariation between predator (Spea) and prey (Anostraca) range shifts in response to climate change oscillations, and
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There and back again: when and how the world's richest snake family (Dipsadidae) dispersed and speciated across the Neotropical region J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Filipe C. Serrano, Matheus Pontes-Nogueira, Ricardo J. Sawaya, Laura R. V. Alencar, Cristiano C. Nogueira, Felipe G. Grazziotin
The widespread megadiverse Neotropical snake family Dipsadidae occurs in a large range of diverse habitats. Therefore, it represents an excellent model to study the diversification of Neotropical biota. Herein, by generating a time-calibrated species-level phylogeny, we investigate the origin and historical biogeography of Dipsadidae and test if its two main Neotropical subfamilies, Xenodontinae and
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Alpine travellers in the Carpathians: The story of two rock-dwelling snails told by genes and fossils J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Veronika Horsáková, Jan Divíšek, Eva Líznarová, Kateřina Kubíková, Lucie Juřičková, Michal Horsák
Various species distributed in the Alps have their disjunct occurrences in the Carpathians. Fossil evidence for some woodland snails of Alpine distribution suggests that they colonized the Carpathians during the Holocene forest optimum or later. Here, we focus on disjunct Carpathian populations of the rock-dwelling alpine snail Pyramidula saxatilis. As it occupies very stable habitats, that is, high-elevation
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Biogeography of orchids and their pollination syndromes in small Mediterranean islands J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 M. Lussu, P. Zannini, R. Testolin, D. Dolci, M. Conti, S. Martellos, A. Chiarucci
Despite the research on orchid in insular conditions, few studies are focused on the spatial distribution of their reproductive syndromes across complex insular systems. By using island species–area relationships (ISAR), we explore orchid biogeography in the Central Western-Mediterranean islands. In this study, we aim to investigate variation in ISARs using orchid pollination mechanisms as proxies
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Restricted dispersal and inbreeding in a high-elevation bird across the ‘sky islands’ of the European Alps J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Francesco Ceresa, Mattia Brambilla, Laura Kvist, Severino Vitulano, Michele Pes, Laura Tomasi, Paolo Pedrini, Chiara Bettega, Matteo Anderle, Andreas Hilpold, Petra Kranebitter
High-elevation specialist species are threatened by climate change and habitat loss, and their distributions are becoming increasingly reduced and fragmented. In such a context, dispersal ability is crucial to maintain gene flow among patches of suitable habitat. However, information about dispersal is often lacking for these species, especially for those taxa that are usually considered as good dispersers
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Contrasting invasion patterns of two closely related Solidago alien species J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Katarína Skokanová, Stanislav Španiel, Barbora Šingliarová, Pavol Mereďa, Iva Hodálová, Marek Svitok
New areas are often simultaneously invaded by closely related alien species; however, between-species differences in the course of their invasive spreading due to diverse ecological preferences have rarely been investigated. Here, we aim to study the species-specific spatio-temporal invasion patterns of Solidago canadensis and S. gigantea.
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Towards causal relationships for modelling species distribution J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Daniele Da Re, Enrico Tordoni, Jonathan Lenoir, Sergio Rubin, Sophie O. Vanwambeke
Understanding the processes underlying the distribution of species through space and time is fundamental in several research fields spanning from ecology to spatial epidemiology. Correlative species distribution models rely on the niche concept to infer or explain the distribution of species, though often focusing only on the abiotic component of the niche (e.g. temperature, precipitation), without
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Mapping species richness and evolutionary regions of the genus Myrcia J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Arthur Vinicius Rodrigues, Leandro Duarte
Myrcia is a plant genus exclusive of the Neotropical region and one of the most important components of the tree diversity in the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest domains. However, no mapping of its taxonomic diversity for this region exists. Our aim was to describe the spatial patterns of diversity and biogeographical history for Myrcia in the Neotropical region based on a phylogenetic regionalization
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Elevational range sizes of woody plants increase with climate variability in the Tropical Andes J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Flavia Montaño-Centellas, Alfredo F. Fuentes, Leslie Cayola, Manuel J. Macía, Gabriel Arellano, M. Isabel Loza, Beatriz Nieto-Ariza, J. Sebastián Tello
The climate variability hypothesis proposes that species subjected to wide variation in climatic conditions will evolve wider niches, resulting in larger distributions. We test this hypothesis in tropical plants across a broad elevational gradient; specifically, we use a species-level approach to evaluate whether elevational range sizes are explained by the levels of thermal variability experienced
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Dispersal sweepstakes: Biotic interchange propelled air-breathing fishes across the globe J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Richard C. Harrington, Matthew Kolmann, Julia J. Day, Brant C. Faircloth, Matt Friedman, Thomas J. Near
Biotic interchanges between Africa, India, and Eurasia are central to explaining the present-day distribution and diversity of freshwater organisms across these landmasses. Synbranchiformes is a diverse and species-rich clade of freshwater acanthomorph fishes found on all southern continents except Antarctica, and include eel- and perch-like, air-breathing and non-air-breathing fishes. Lacking a comprehensive
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Changes in thermal niche position and breadth of bird assemblages in Spain in relation to increasing temperatures J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 D. Ramón-Martínez, J. Seoane
Animal communities around the world are responding to climate change by altering their taxonomic composition, mainly through an increase in the colonisation rate of warm-dwelling species and the local extinction of cold-dwelling ones. We assessed whether the taxonomic composition of bird assemblages in peninsular Spain has changed in accordance with the recent increase in temperature. We also evaluated
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Considering biotic interactions exacerbates the predicted impacts of climate change on coral-dwelling species J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Zhixin Zhang, Shaobo Ma, Ákos Bede-Fazekas, Stefano Mammola, Meng Qu, Jinxin Zhou, Ellias Yuming Feng, Geng Qin, Qiang Lin
Climate change is affecting the geographic distributions of many species and researchers are increasingly relying on species distribution models (SDMs) to forecast species' redistributions under climate change. Such modelling studies, however, often ignore biotic interactions that shape species' geographic ranges. This is especially problematic for coral reefs, which host a high diversity of species
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Associating the structure of Lepidoptera-plant interaction networks across clades and life stages to environmental gradients J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Hsi-Cheng Ho, Florian Altermatt
The spatial-structural patterns of plant-insect interaction networks, particularly their associations with landscape-scale environmental factors, remain poorly understood. We apply data-driven network constructions that integrate biogeographic and trophic interaction knowledge to uncover how Lepidoptera-plant networks vary across environmental gradients in a real-world landscape.
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Matrix type affects carabid beetle community and trait composition, and intraspecific variation in remnant forests J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 D. J. Kotze, M. Gabor, S. Kohout, H. Setälä
The Anthropocene is characterised by urban and agricultural landscapes. Within these landscapes, natural to semi-natural habitats are fragmented, isolated and disturbed to varying degrees. Species associated with these natural habitats have to content with the surrounding landscape, both in terms of level of isolation, and matrix type and quality. We investigated the community structure, trait distribution
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Same places, same stories? Genomics reveals similar structuring and demographic patterns for four Pocillopora coral species in the southwestern Indian Ocean J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Nicolas Oury, Stefano Mona, Hélène Magalon
Efficiently protecting species requires knowing their ecological, life-history and reproductive traits. This is particularly decisive for scleractinian corals, key components of coral reefs, which are experiencing critical declines. Yet their connectivity remains insufficiently documented. Here, we focused on four distinct species of the coral genus Pocillopora found in diverse habitats of the southwestern
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Unravelling the cavity-nesting network at large spatial scales: The biogeographic role of woodpeckers as ecosystem engineers J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Alberto J. Alaniz, Mario A. Carvajal, Madelaine Quiroz, Pablo M. Vergara, Pablo A. Marquet, Andrés Fierro, Kathryn E. Sieving, Darío Moreira-Arce, Claudia Hidalgo-Corrotea, Annia Rodríguez-San Pedro, Luis Allendes, Katerine Machuca
Primary cavity nesters (e.g. woodpeckers) act as ecosystem engineers by providing tree cavities to several vertebrates that use them as nests or refuges. Although diverse assemblages of primary excavators are assumed to increase the number of tree cavities, environmental factors can limit populations of primary excavators, thus weakening their ecological function. We aim to test the biogeographical-scale
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Apomixis goes a long way: Genetic evidence of persistence and long-distance seed dispersal in an ancient landscape J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Nicola Delnevo, Rachel M. Binks, Stephen van Leeuwen, David J. Coates, Shelley McArthur, Bronwyn M. Macdonald, Margaret Hankinson, Margaret Byrne
Apomixis is a widespread trait in extreme environments worldwide, yet phylogeographical studies for species exhibiting these complex reproductive systems are still limited to temperate zones in the Northern Hemisphere. Through analyses of a combination of adult plants and seedlings, and nuclear and chloroplast DNA, we assessed the contemporary genetic outcomes of apomixis and phylogeographical patterns
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Recent changes in forest structure and growth at the alpine-treeline ecotone in the Rocky and Columbia Mountains of central British Columbia, Canada J. Biogeogr. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Hardy Griesbauer, Alexandre Bevington
Globally, forests at the alpine-treeline ecotone (ATE) are considered sensitive to warming temperatures; however, responses to recent climate change show high variability and many underlying processes remain unclear. This study aims to provide further insight into possible ATE forest responses to climate change by examining spatiotemporal patterns in recent tree regeneration and growth responses to