Evidence for niche conservatism in alpine beetles under a climate‐driven species pump model

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jillian Schat ◽  
Yi‐Ming Weng ◽  
Roman Yu. Dudko ◽  
David H. Kavanaugh ◽  
Lan Luo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Niche Conservatism

Ecological niche conservatism shapes the distributions of lichens

Preslia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Fačkovcová ◽  
Senko ◽  
M. Svitok ◽  
A. Guttová
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Niche ◽  
Niche Conservatism

scholarly journals Have Niche, Will Travel. New Means of Linking Diet and Ecomorphology Reveals Niche Conservatism in Freshwater Cottoid Fishes

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
T J Buser ◽  
D L Finnegan ◽  
A P Summers ◽  
M A Kolmann
Keyword(s):  
Niche Conservatism ◽  
Freshwater Species ◽  
Evolutionary Transitions ◽  
Adaptive Diversification ◽  
Functional Aspects ◽  
Ecological Evolution ◽  
Jaw Apparatus ◽  
Cottoid Fishes ◽  
Freshwater Habitats ◽  
Dietary Niche

Synopsis Evolutionary transitions between habitats have been catalysts for some of the most stunning examples of adaptive diversification, with novel niches and new resources providing ecological opportunity for such radiations. In aquatic animals, transitions from saltwater to freshwater habitats are rare, but occur often enough that in the Neotropics for example, marine-derived fishes contribute noticeably to regional ichthyofaunal diversity. Here, we investigate how morphology has evolved in a group of temperate fishes that contain a marine to freshwater transition: the sculpins (Percomorpha; Cottoidea). We devised a novel method for classifying dietary niche and relating functional aspects of prey to their predators. Coupled with functional measurements of the jaw apparatus in cottoids, we explored whether freshwater sculpins have fundamentally changed their niche after invading freshwater (niche lability) or if they retain a niche similar to their marine cousins (niche conservatism). Freshwater sculpins exhibit both phylogeographical and ecological signals of phylogenetic niche conservatism, meaning that regardless of habitat, sculpins fill similar niche roles in either saltwater or freshwater. Rather than competition guiding niche conservatism in freshwater cottoids, we argue that strong intrinsic constraints on morphological and ecological evolution are at play, contra to other studies of diversification in marine-derived freshwater fishes. However, several intertidal and subtidal sculpins as well as several pelagic freshwater species from Lake Baikal show remarkable departures from the typical sculpin bauplan. Our method of prey categorization provides an explicit, quantitative means of classifying dietary niche for macroevolutionary studies, rather than relying on somewhat arbitrary means used in previous literature.

scholarly journals Differential speciation rates, colonization time and niche conservatism affect community assembly across adjacent biogeographical regions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronildo A. Benício ◽  
Diogo B. Provete ◽  
Mariana L. Lyra ◽  
Jani Heino ◽  
Célio F. B. Haddad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Assembly ◽  
Niche Conservatism ◽  
Speciation Rates ◽  
Biogeographical Regions ◽  
Colonization Time

scholarly journals Latitudinal Diversity Gradients in New World Bats: Are They a Consequence of Niche Conservatism?

PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. e69245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria João Ramos Pereira ◽  
Jorge M. Palmeirim
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Niche Conservatism ◽  
Diversity Gradients

scholarly journals Niche Conservatism Drives the Elevational Diversity Gradient in Major Groups of Free-Living Soil Unicellular Eukaryotes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo D. Fernández ◽  
Christophe V. W. Seppey ◽  
David Singer ◽  
Bertrand Fournier ◽  
Dylan Tatti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Niche Conservatism ◽  
Free Living ◽  
Unicellular Eukaryotes ◽  
Diversity Gradient

scholarly journals Links between plant species’ spatial and temporal responses to a warming climate

2014 ◽  
Vol 281 (1779) ◽  
pp. 20133017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatsuya Amano ◽  
Robert P. Freckleton ◽  
Simon A. Queenborough ◽  
Simon W. Doxford ◽  
Richard J. Smithers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Species Distribution Models ◽  
Range Shifts ◽  
Niche Conservatism ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Perennial Species ◽  
Distribution Models ◽  
Climatic Niche ◽  
Warming Climate ◽  
Phenological Changes

To generate realistic projections of species’ responses to climate change, we need to understand the factors that limit their ability to respond. Although climatic niche conservatism, the maintenance of a species’s climatic niche over time, is a critical assumption in niche-based species distribution models, little is known about how universal it is and how it operates. In particular, few studies have tested the role of climatic niche conservatism via phenological changes in explaining the reported wide variance in the extent of range shifts among species. Using historical records of the phenology and spatial distribution of British plants under a warming climate, we revealed that: (i) perennial species, as well as those with weaker or lagged phenological responses to temperature, experienced a greater increase in temperature during flowering (i.e. failed to maintain climatic niche via phenological changes); (ii) species that failed to maintain climatic niche via phenological changes showed greater northward range shifts; and (iii) there was a complementary relationship between the levels of climatic niche conservatism via phenological changes and range shifts. These results indicate that even species with high climatic niche conservatism might not show range shifts as instead they track warming temperatures during flowering by advancing their phenology.

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