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Kang D, Zhao C, Sun Z, Chen G, Feng J, Zhu W, Huang Y, Zhao T. Effects of microhabitat features on the intraspecific variability of the distribution and functional traits in a highest elevational distributed lizard. Ecol Evol 2024; 14:e10902. [PMID: 38371862 PMCID: PMC10869896 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.10902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2023] [Revised: 12/18/2023] [Accepted: 01/03/2024] [Indexed: 02/20/2024] Open
Abstract
Exploring the microhabitat determinants of organisms distribution and functional traits differences can help us better understand the importance of intraspecific variations in ecological niches. Investigations on animals functional niche primarily focused on differences among species and tended to neglect the potential variability within species, despite the fact that the ecological and evolutionary importance of intraspecific variations was widely recognized. In this study, we examined the influence of microhabitat features on the intraspecific variability of the distribution and functional traits of a highest elevational distributed lizard species Phrynocephalus erythrurus. To do so, field work was conducted between July and August, 2020 and August and September, 2021 in Namtso watershed in central Xizang, China. Specifically, 11 transects were sampled for P. erythrurus individuals, which were measured for a set of 10 morphological traits. Moreover, 11 microhabitat variables that potentially affect the distribution of lizards were also measured for each transect. Our results indicated that juveniles, males, and females exhibited different functional traits, allowing them to occupy distinct functional space. The distribution of juveniles, males, and females was determined by different microhabitat variables such as illuminance and air temperature. More importantly, these variables also determined the intraspecific functional traits variability in this lizard species. All of these results supported previous claims that intraspecific traits variation should be incorporated into functional ecological studies, and diverse microhabitat features should be conserved to maintain high intraspecific diversity. Future studies can focus on the food analysis to explore the linkage between functional traits and resources utilization within animal populations.
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- Da Kang
- College of Fisheries, Southwest UniversityChongqingChina
- Yunnan Key Laboratory of Plateau Wetland Conservation, Restoration and Ecological ServicesSouthwest Forestry UniversityKunmingChina
- CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan ProvinceChengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of SciencesChengduChina
- Key Laboratory of Southwest China Wildlife Resources Conservation (Ministry of Education)College of Life Science, China West Normal UniversityNanchongSichuan ProvinceChina
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- School of Biological and Chemical Engineering (School of Agriculture)Panzhihua UniversityPanzhihuaChina
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- College of Fisheries, Southwest UniversityChongqingChina
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory of Plateau Wetland Conservation, Restoration and Ecological ServicesSouthwest Forestry UniversityKunmingChina
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan ProvinceChengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of SciencesChengduChina
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan ProvinceChengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of SciencesChengduChina
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- Key Laboratory of Southwest China Wildlife Resources Conservation (Ministry of Education)College of Life Science, China West Normal UniversityNanchongSichuan ProvinceChina
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- College of Fisheries, Southwest UniversityChongqingChina
- Yunnan Key Laboratory of Plateau Wetland Conservation, Restoration and Ecological ServicesSouthwest Forestry UniversityKunmingChina
- CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan ProvinceChengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of SciencesChengduChina
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Masó G, Vicente‐Sastre D, Fitze P. Intrinsic climatic predictability affects ornamental coloration of adult males: evidence for compensation among carotenoid‐ and melanin‐based coloration. Funct Ecol 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.14021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- G. Masó
- Department of Biodiversity and Ecologic Restoration Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE‐CSIC) Avda. Nuestra Señora de la Victoria 16 22700 Jaca Spain
- GRECO Institute of Aquatic Ecology University of Girona 17003 Girona Spain
- Faculty of Sciences and Technology (FCT) University of Vic – Central University of Catalonia (UVic‐UCC) C. de la Laura, 13 08500 Vic Spain
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- Departament de Biologia Evolutiva Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals Universitat de Barcelona Av. Diagonal 643 08028 Barcelona Spain
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- Department of Biodiversity and Ecologic Restoration Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE‐CSIC) Avda. Nuestra Señora de la Victoria 16 22700 Jaca Spain
- Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN‐CSIC) C/José Gutiérrez Abascal 2 28006 Madrid Spain
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Victorica Erostarbe AE, Fava GA, Acosta JC. Restricted use of space in an endemic lizard of the Andes: addressing the effects of intrinsic and environmental factors. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-021-03120-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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AlRashidi M, Abdelgadir M, Shobrak M. Habitat selection by the Spiny-tailed lizard ( Uromastyx aegyptia): A view from spatial analysis. Saudi J Biol Sci 2021; 28:5034-5041. [PMID: 34466079 PMCID: PMC8381032 DOI: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2021.05.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2021] [Revised: 05/04/2021] [Accepted: 05/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Many factors affect the habitat selection for animal species, which in turn may greatly affect their distribution in different ecosystems. Understanding the processes that affect habitat selection is also critical for guiding and managing conservation initiatives. Our study aimed to assess the habitat selection by free-ranging Spiny-tailed lizard (Uromastyx aegyptia) by analyzing a geospatial data connecting its burrow parameters to different habitat characteristics within selected sites in Hail region, Saudi Arabia. We examined evidence and patterns of significant spatial clustering for (366) active burrows by linking their parameters (burrow entrance size, burrow entrance width and burrow entrance height), their reference geographical locations and, two habitat characteristics defined by soil type and vegetation cover. The objective of the analysis was to increase the understanding on the burrows aggregation process in the space and, to describe its possible relation to other spatial habitat configurations. Analysis of distances based on the Nearest Neighbor Index (NNI) and hotspots detection in Nearest neighbor hierarchical clustering (Nnh) suggested twelve (12) spatial clusters located within the study area. In addition, a spatial ordinary least square (OLS) and Poisson regression models revealed significant effects of soil type and vegetation cover on burrow parameters (OLS, p < 0.05; Poisson, p < 0.001), which indicate a strong association between burrows parameters and habitats characteristics. Findings from the study also suggest that other factors such as elevations, highways, and human settlement concentration spots could possibly play a major role in defining burrow spatial aggregation and furthermore have a significant impact on habitat selection.
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- Monif AlRashidi
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Ha’il, PO Box 2440, Hail, Saudi Arabia
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- School of Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies, Södertörn University, Stockholm, 14189 Huddinge, Sweden
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia
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Cerasoli F, Besnard A, Marchand M, D'Alessandro P, Iannella M, Biondi M. Determinants of habitat suitability models transferability across geographically disjunct populations: Insights from Vipera ursinii urs inii. Ecol Evol 2021; 11:3991-4011. [PMID: 33976789 PMCID: PMC8093743 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2020] [Revised: 12/30/2020] [Accepted: 01/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Transferability of habitat suitability models (HSMs), essential to accurately predict outside calibration conditions, has been seldom investigated at intraspecific level. We targeted Vipera ursinii ursinii, a meadow viper from southeastern France and central Italy, to assess determinants of transferability among geographically disjunct populations. We fitted HSMs upon occurrences of the Italian and French populations separately, as well as on the combined occurrence dataset. Internal transferability of HSMs, on spatially independent test data drawn from the calibration region, and their external transferability on the geographically disjunct populations were evaluated according to (a) use of full or spatially rarefied presence datasets; (b) ecology-driven or statistics-driven filtering of predictors; (c) modeling algorithm, testing generalized additive models and gradient boosting models; and (d) multivariate environmental novelty within test data. Niche overlap between French and Italian populations was also tested. Niche overlap was low, but niche divergence between the two populations' clusters was not corroborated. Nonetheless, wider niche breadth and heterogeneity of background environmental conditions characterizing the French populations led to low intercluster transferability. Although models fitted on the combined datasets did not attain consistently higher internal transferability than those separately fitted for the French and Italian populations, ensemble projection from the HSMs fitted on the joint occurrences produced more consistent suitability predictions across the full range of V. u. ursinii. Spatial thinning of occurrences ameliorated internal transferability but did not affect external transferability. The two approaches to predictors filtering did not differ in transferability of the respective HSMs but led to discrepant estimated environment-occurrence relationships and spatial predictions, while the two algorithms attained different relative rankings depending on the considered prediction task. Multivariate novelty of projection sites was negatively correlated to both internal transferability and external transferability. Our findings clarify issues researchers should keep in mind when using HSMs to get predictions across geographically disjunct populations.
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- Francesco Cerasoli
- Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences—Environmental Sciences Sect.University of L'AquilaL'AquilaItaly
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- CEFE UMR 5175CNRSPSL Research UniversityUniversité Paul‐Valéry Montpellier, EPHEMontpellierFrance
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- Conservatoire d'Espaces Naturels de Provence‐Alpes‐Côte d'AzurPôle Alpes du SudSisteronFrance
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- Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences—Environmental Sciences Sect.University of L'AquilaL'AquilaItaly
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- Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences—Environmental Sciences Sect.University of L'AquilaL'AquilaItaly
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- Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences—Environmental Sciences Sect.University of L'AquilaL'AquilaItaly
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Kermorvant C, D’Amico F, L’Ambert G, Dossou-Gbete S. Setting up an efficient survey of Aedes albopictus in an unfamiliar urban area. Urban Ecosyst 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s11252-020-01041-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Masó G, Ozgul A, Fitze PS. Decreased Precipitation Predictability Negatively Affects Population Growth through Differences in Adult Survival. Am Nat 2019; 195:43-55. [PMID: 31868534 DOI: 10.1086/706183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Global climate change is leading to decreased climatic predictability. Theoretical work indicates that changes in the climate's intrinsic predictability will affect population dynamics and extinction, but experimental evidence is scarce. Here, we experimentally tested whether differences in intrinsic precipitation predictability affect population dynamics of the European common lizard (Zootoca vivipara) by simulating more predictable (MP) and less predictable (LP) precipitation in 12 seminatural populations over 3 years and measuring different vital rates. A seasonal age-structured matrix model was parametrized to assess treatment effects on vital rates and asymptotic population growth (λ). There was a nonsignificant trend for survival being higher in MP than in LP precipitation, and no differences existed in reproductive rates. Small nonsignificant survival differences in adults explained changes in λ, and survival differences among age classes were in line with predictions from cohort resonance. As a result, λ was significantly higher in MP than in LP precipitation. This experimentally shows that small effects have major consequences on λ, that forecasted decreases in precipitation predictability are likely to exacerbate the current rate of population decline and extinction, and that stage-structured matrix models are required to unravel the aftermath of climate change.
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Masó G, Kaufmann J, Clavero H, Fitze PS. Age-dependent effects of moderate differences in environmental predictability forecasted by climate change, experimental evidence from a short-lived lizard (Zootoca vivipara). Sci Rep 2019; 9:15546. [PMID: 31664098 PMCID: PMC6820789 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-51955-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2019] [Accepted: 10/07/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Whether and how differences in environmental predictability affect life-history traits is controversial and may depend on mean environmental conditions. Solid evidence for effects of environmental predictability are lacking and thus, the consequences of the currently observed and forecasted climate-change induced reduction of precipitation predictability are largely unknown. Here we experimentally tested whether and how changes in the predictability of precipitation affect growth, reproduction, and survival of common lizard Zootoca vivipara. Precipitation predictability affected all three age classes. While adults were able to compensate the treatment effects, yearlings and juvenile females were not able to compensate negative effects of less predictable precipitation on growth and body condition, respectively. Differences among the age-classes' response reflect differences (among age-classes) in the sensitivity to environmental predictability. Moreover, effects of environmental predictability depended on mean environmental conditions. This indicates that integrating differences in environmental sensitivity, and changes in averages and the predictability of climatic variables will be key to understand whether species are able to cope with the current climatic change.
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- G Masó
- Department of Biodiversity and Ecologic Restoration, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE-CSIC), Avda. Nuestra Señora de la Victoria 16, 22700, Jaca, Spain
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- School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Cork, Republic of Ireland
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- IUCN-Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation, c/Marie Curie, 22, Edif. Habitec, 29590, Campanillas, Malaga, Spain
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Biophore, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Biodiversity and Ecologic Restoration, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE-CSIC), Avda. Nuestra Señora de la Victoria 16, 22700, Jaca, Spain.
- Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), C/José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006, Madrid, Spain.
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Horreo JL, Peláez ML, Breedveld MC, Suárez T, Urieta M, Fitze PS. Population structure of the oviparous South-West European common lizard. EUR J WILDLIFE RES 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s10344-018-1242-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Yates KL, Bouchet PJ, Caley MJ, Mengersen K, Randin CF, Parnell S, Fielding AH, Bamford AJ, Ban S, Barbosa AM, Dormann CF, Elith J, Embling CB, Ervin GN, Fisher R, Gould S, Graf RF, Gregr EJ, Halpin PN, Heikkinen RK, Heinänen S, Jones AR, Krishnakumar PK, Lauria V, Lozano-Montes H, Mannocci L, Mellin C, Mesgaran MB, Moreno-Amat E, Mormede S, Novaczek E, Oppel S, Ortuño Crespo G, Peterson AT, Rapacciuolo G, Roberts JJ, Ross RE, Scales KL, Schoeman D, Snelgrove P, Sundblad G, Thuiller W, Torres LG, Verbruggen H, Wang L, Wenger S, Whittingham MJ, Zharikov Y, Zurell D, Sequeira AM. Outstanding Challenges in the Transferability of Ecological Models. Trends Ecol Evol 2018; 33:790-802. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2018.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 277] [Impact Index Per Article: 46.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2017] [Revised: 08/03/2018] [Accepted: 08/03/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Romero-Diaz C, Breedveld MC, Fitze PS. Climate Effects on Growth, Body Condition, and Survival Depend on the Genetic Characteristics of the Population. Am Nat 2017; 190:649-662. [DOI: 10.1086/693780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Habitat degradation increases stress-hormone levels during the breeding season, and decreases survival and reproduction in adult common lizards. Oecologia 2017; 184:75-86. [DOI: 10.1007/s00442-017-3841-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2016] [Accepted: 02/10/2017] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Breedveld MC, Fitze PS. Experimental evidence that sperm maturation drives protandry in an ectotherm. Oecologia 2016; 182:129-37. [DOI: 10.1007/s00442-016-3668-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2016] [Accepted: 05/27/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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