scholarly journals Developmental life history is associated with variation in rates of climatic niche evolution in a salamander adaptive radiation*

Evolution ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (8) ◽  
pp. 1804-1814 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Weaver ◽  
Donald B. Shepard ◽  
Kenneth H. Kozak
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Adaptive Radiation ◽  
Niche Evolution ◽  
Climatic Niche

Ligorio Marquez Formation and Climatic Niche Evolution of Nothofagus

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 84-85
Author(s):  
Luis Felipe Hinojosa ◽  
Francisca Campano ◽  
Francy Carvajal ◽  
Mirta Quattrochio ◽  
María Fernanda Pérez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Niche Evolution ◽  
Climatic Niche

Climatic Niche Evolution in the Arremon brunneinucha Complex (Aves: Passerellidae) in a Mesoamerican Landscape

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-132
Author(s):  
Israel Moreno-Contreras ◽  
Luis A. Sánchez-González ◽  
María del Coro Arizmendi ◽  
David A. Prieto-Torres ◽  
Adolfo G. Navarro-Sigüenza
Keyword(s):  
Niche Evolution ◽  
Climatic Niche

Climatic niche evolution in the Andean genus Menonvillea (Cremolobeae: Brassicaceae)

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego L. Salariato ◽  
Fernando O. Zuloaga
Keyword(s):  
Niche Evolution ◽  
Climatic Niche

Climatic niche evolution and species diversification in the Cape flora, South Africa

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (12) ◽  
pp. 2201-2211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Schnitzler ◽  
Catherine H. Graham ◽  
Carsten F. Dormann ◽  
Katja Schiffers ◽  
H. Peter Linder
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Niche Evolution ◽  
Climatic Niche ◽  
Species Diversification

scholarly journals Niche-tracking migrants and niche-switching residents: evolution of climatic niches in New World warblers (Parulidae)

2016 ◽  
Vol 283 (1824) ◽  
pp. 20152458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camila Gómez ◽  
Elkin A. Tenorio ◽  
Paola Montoya ◽  
Carlos Daniel Cadena
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Niche Overlap ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Tropical Species ◽  
Migratory Behaviour ◽  
Niche Evolution ◽  
Climatic Niche ◽  
Niche Dynamics ◽  
Patterns And Processes ◽  
The Tropics

Differences in life-history traits between tropical and temperate lineages are often attributed to differences in their climatic niche dynamics. For example, the more frequent appearance of migratory behaviour in temperate-breeding species than in species originally breeding in the tropics is believed to have resulted partly from tropical climatic stability and niche conservatism constraining tropical species from shifting their ranges. However, little is known about the patterns and processes underlying climatic niche evolution in migrant and resident animals. We evaluated the evolution of overlap in climatic niches between seasons and its relationship to migratory behaviour in the Parulidae, a family of New World passerine birds. We used ordination methods to measure seasonal niche overlap and niche breadth of 54 resident and 49 migrant species and used phylogenetic comparative methods to assess patterns of climatic niche evolution. We found that despite travelling thousands of kilometres, migrants tracked climatic conditions across the year to a greater extent than tropical residents. Migrant species had wider niches than resident species, although residents as a group occupied a wider climatic space and niches of migrants and residents overlapped extensively. Neither breeding latitude nor migratory distance explained variation among species in climatic niche overlap between seasons. Our findings support the notion that tropical species have narrower niches than temperate-breeders, but does not necessarily constrain their ability to shift or expand their geographical ranges and become migratory. Overall, the tropics may have been historically less likely to experience the suite of components that generate strong selection pressures for the evolution of migratory behaviour.

Population demography influences climatic niche evolution: evidence from diploid AmericanHordeumspecies (Poaceae)

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 1423-1438 ◽  
Author(s):  
SABINE S. JAKOB ◽  
CHRISTOPH HEIBL ◽  
DENNIS RÖDDER ◽  
FRANK R. BLATTNER
Keyword(s):  
Population Demography ◽  
Niche Evolution ◽  
Climatic Niche

scholarly journals Drivers of change in the realised climatic niche of terrestrial mammal species

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Di Marco Moreno ◽  
Michela Pacifici ◽  
Luigi Maiorano ◽  
Carlo Rondinini
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Life History ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Dispersal Ability ◽  
Anthropogenic Pressure ◽  
Drivers Of Change ◽  
Mammal Species ◽  
Climatic Niche ◽  
Terrestrial Mammal

AbstractThe breadth of a species’ climatic niche is an important ecological trait that allows adaptation to climate change, but human activities drive niche erosion. Life-history traits, such as dispersal ability and reproductive speed, instead allow species to cope with climate change. But how do these characteristics act in combination with human pressure to determine niche change? Here we investigate the patterns and drivers of change in the realised climatic niche of 589 terrestrial mammal species. Our goal is to disentangle the impacts of humans, climate change, and life history. We calibrated the past and present climatic niches of each species by considering past climatic conditions (Mid Holocene) within their pre-human impact distributions, and current climatic conditions within the current distributions. Depending on the relationship between past and current niche, we defined four categories of change: “shrink”, “shift”, “stable”, and “expand”. We found over half of the species in our sample have undergone niche shrink, while only 15-18% of species retained a stable niche. After controlling for biogeography, climatic factors were the strongest correlates of species niche change, followed by anthropogenic pressure and species’ life history. Factors that increased the probability of niche shrink include: overall climatic instability in the area (both intermediate or high), large body mass, long gestation time, highly carnivorous or herbivorous diets, historical land-use change, and current human population density. We identified the conditions under which species are less likely to maintain their niche breadth, potentially losing adaptation capacity under climate change. Species with these characteristics require interventions that facilitate natural dispersal or assisted colonisation, to survive to rapidly changing climates.

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