Dispersal ability modulates the strength of the latitudinal richness gradient in European beetles

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作者
Baselga, Andres [1 ]
Lobo, Jorge M. [2 ]
Svenning, Jens-Christian [3 ]
Aragon, Pedro [4 ]
Araujo, Miguel B. [2 ,5 ]
机构
[1] Univ Santiago de Compostela, Fac Biol, Dept Zool, Santiago De Compostela 15782, Spain
[2] CSIC, Museo Nacl Ciencias Nat, Dept Biodiversidad & Biol Evolut, E-28006 Madrid, Spain
[3] Aarhus Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Ecoinformat & Biodivers Grp, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
[4] Univ Lausanne, DEE, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
[5] Univ Evora, CIBIO, Rui Nabeiro Biodivers Chair, P-7000 Evora, Portugal
来源
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY | 2012年 / 21卷 / 11期
基金
瑞士国家科学基金会;
关键词
Beta diversity; Coleoptera; dispersal; diversity gradients; Europe; post-glacial recolonization; richness; SPECIES RICHNESS; DIVERSITY PATTERNS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; SCALE; RANGE; TREE; ENVIRONMENT; DISTRIBUTIONS; CONSEQUENCES; EXTINCTION;
D O I
10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00753.x
中图分类号
Q14 [生态学(生物生态学)];
学科分类号
071012 ; 0713 ;
摘要
Aim A debate exists as to whether present-day diversity gradients are governed by current environmental conditions or by changes in environmental conditions through time. Recent studies have shown that latitudinal richness gradients might be partially caused by incomplete post-glacial recolonization of high-latitude regions; this leads to the prediction that less mobile taxa should have steeper gradients than more mobile taxa. The aim of this study is to test this prediction. Location Europe. Methods We first assessed whether spatial turnover in species composition is a good surrogate for dispersal ability by measuring the proportion of wingless species in 19 European beetle clades and relating this value to spatial turnover (beta sim) of the clade. We then linearly regressed beta sim values of 21 taxa against the slope of their respective diversity gradients. Results A strong relationship exists between the proportion of wingless species and beta sim, and beta sim was found to be a good predictor of latitudinal richness gradients. Main conclusions Results are consistent with the prediction that poor dispersers have steeper richness gradients than good dispersers, supporting the view that current beetle diversity gradients in Europe are affected by post-glacial dispersal lags.
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页码:1106 / 1113
页数:8
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