scholarly journals Climatic niche shift of aquatic plant invaders between native and invasive ranges: a test using 10 species across different biomes on a global scale

Author(s):  
Chun-Jing Wang ◽  
Ji-Zhong Wan ◽  
Hong Qu ◽  
Zhi-Xiang Zhang
PLoS ONE ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. e0199811 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Emiliano Quiroga ◽  
Andrea C. Premoli ◽  
Roberto J. Fernández
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2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 1503-1516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason J. Kolbe ◽  
Paul S. VanMiddlesworth ◽  
Neil Losin ◽  
Nathan Dappen ◽  
Jonathan B. Losos

Science ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 338 (6104) ◽  
pp. 193-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Guisan ◽  
B. Petitpierre ◽  
O. Broennimann ◽  
C. Kueffer ◽  
C. Randin ◽  
...  

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 535
Author(s):  
Jake J. Grossman

Research highlights: The availability of global distribution data and new, fossil-calibrated phylogenies has made it possible to compare the climatic niches of the temperate maple (Acer L.) taxa and assess phylogenetic and continental patterns in niche overlap. Background and Objectives: The maples have radiated from East Asia into two other temperate continental bioregions, North America and Eurasia (Europe and West Asia), over a roughly 60-million-year period. During this time, the Earth’s climate experienced pronounced cooling and drying, culminating in cyclic periods of widespread temperate glaciation in the Pliocene to Pleistocene. The objective of this study is to use newly available data to model the climatic niches of 60% of the temperate maples and assess patterns of niche divergence, constraint, and conservatism in the genus’s radiation out of East Asia. Materials and Methods: I assembled global occurrence data and associated climatic information for 71 maple taxa, including all species endemic to temperate North America and Eurasia and their closely related East Asian congeners. I constructed Maxent niche models for all taxa and compared the climatic niches of 184 taxa pairs and assessed phylogenetic signal in key niche axes for each taxon and in niche overlap at the continental and global scale. Results: Maxent models define a fundamental climatic niche for temperate maples and suggest that drought-intolerant taxa have been lost from the Eurasian maple flora, with little continental difference in temperature optima or breadth. Niche axes and niche overlap show minimal evidence of phylogenetic signal, suggesting adaptive evolution. Pairwise niche comparisons reveal infrequent niche overlap continentally and globally, even among sister pairs, with few taxa pairs sharing ecological niche space, providing evidence for constrained divergence within the genus’s fundamental climatic niche. Evidence of niche conservatism is limited to three somewhat geographically isolated regions of high maple diversity (western North America, the Caucasus, and Japan). Conclusions: Over 60 million years of hemispheric radiation on a cooling and drying planet, the maple genus experienced divergent, though constrained, climatic niche evolution. High climatic niche diversity across spatial and phylogenetic scales along with very limited niche overlap or conservatism suggests that the radiation of the genus has largely been one of adaptive diversification.


Author(s):  
Jeannie Mounger ◽  
Malika L. Ainouche ◽  
Oliver Bossdorf ◽  
Armand Cavé-Radet ◽  
Bo Li ◽  
...  

Biological invasions impose ecological and economic problems on a global scale, but also provide extraordinary opportunities for studying contemporary evolution. It is critical to understand the evolutionary processes that underly invasion success in order to successfully manage existing invaders, and to prevent future invasions. As successful invasive species sometimes are suspected to rapidly adjust to their new environments in spite of very low genetic diversity, we are obliged to re-evaluate genomic-level processes that translate into phenotypic diversity. In this paper, we review work that supports the idea that trait variation, within and among invasive populations, can be created through epigenetic or other non-genetic processes, particularly in clonal invaders where somatic changes can persist indefinitely. We consider several processes that have been implicated as adaptive in invasion success, focusing on various forms of ‘genomic shock’ resulting from exposure to environmental stress, hybridization and whole-genome duplication (polyploidy), and leading to various patterns of gene expression re-programming and epigenetic changes that contribute to phenotypic variation or even novelty. These mechanisms can contribute to transgressive phenotypes, including hybrid vigour and novel traits, and may thus help to understand the huge successes of some plant invaders, especially those that are genetically impoverished. This article is part of the theme issue ‘How does epigenetics influence the course of evolution?’


2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 701-709 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Broennimann ◽  
U. A. Treier ◽  
H. Müller-Schärer ◽  
W. Thuiller ◽  
A. T. Peterson ◽  
...  

Science ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 335 (6074) ◽  
pp. 1344-1348 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Petitpierre ◽  
C. Kueffer ◽  
O. Broennimann ◽  
C. Randin ◽  
C. Daehler ◽  
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