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Koshelev OI, Gensytskyi MV, Koshelev VO, Yorkina NV, Kunakh OM. Anthropogenic load іs a leading factor in the morphological variability of Chondrula tridens (Gastropoda, Enidae) in the northwestern Azov Sea region. BIOSYSTEMS DIVERSITY 2021. [DOI: 10.15421/012114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Morphometric data are widely used in biology to assess intraspecific and inter-population variability and for bioindication and environmental condition assessment. The following hypotheses have been experimentally tested in the paper: 1) the vegetation type affects the change in the shell shape of Chondrula tridens martynovi Gural-Sverlova & Gural, 2010; 2) the change in the shell shape of this species is influenced by the biotope moisture regime; 3) the shell shape changes depending on the anthropogenic load level. The material in the form of empty, fully formed Ch. tridens shells was collected in 2019 in the north-western Azov region within the basin of the Molochna River. The collection points were located in settlements and outside them and differed in vegetation, moisture regime and level of anthropogenic load. The vegetation has been expertly attributed to two alternative types: herbaceous vegetation and tree plantations. By moisture level, the locations have been assessed as xerophytic and mesoxerophytic. The anthropogenic load levels have been assessed as low, medium and high. The study revealed that the morphological characteristics of Ch. tridens demonstrate a significant component of variability, which is due to the shell size. The shell size depends on the anthropogenic impact level. Under conditions of high anthropogenic impact, the shell size increases. Mollusks from locations with low and medium anthropogenic impact levels did not differ in shell size. After extraction of the size component, morphological properties develop three main trends of variability. The mouth apparatus development of mollusks does not depend on the vegetation type, but depends on the biotope moisture level and the anthropogenic transformation level. The mollusk shell elongation was observed to have the opposite dynamics of the height parameters in relation to the width and depended on the level of anthropogenic load. Rearrangement in the mouth apparatus depended on the biotope moisture level and the anthropogenic load level. There were distinguished four clusters, the quantitative morphological features of which allowed us to identify them as morphotypes. Each location was characterized by a combination of different morphotypes, according to which the sampling points may be classified. Morphotype 1 corresponds to biotopes with low level of anthropogenic load, morphotype 4 corresponded to biotopes with high anthropogenic load. Morphotypes 2 and 3 corresponded to moderate level of anthropogenic load. Vegetation type is not an important factor in determining the morphotypic diversity of populations. Under xerophytic conditions, morphotypes 2 and 3 are more common, and under mesoxerophytic conditions, morphotypes 1 and 4 are more common. The range of molluscs in different habitats needs to be expanded in the future to clarify climatic and other patterns.
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Dahirel M, Gaudu V, Ansart A. Boldness and exploration vary between shell morphs but not environmental contexts in the snail
Cepaea nemoralis. Ethology 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/eth.13129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Maxime Dahirel
- Univ Rennes CNRS ECOBIO (Ecosystèmes, biodiversité, évolution) ‐ UMR 6553 Rennes France
- INRAE CNRS ISA Université Côte d’Azur Sophia‐Antipolis France
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- Univ Rennes CNRS ECOBIO (Ecosystèmes, biodiversité, évolution) ‐ UMR 6553 Rennes France
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- Univ Rennes CNRS ECOBIO (Ecosystèmes, biodiversité, évolution) ‐ UMR 6553 Rennes France
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Lewis Najev BS, Schofield A, Flores RI, Hutchins BT, Andrew McDonald J, Perez KE. TERRESTRIAL SNAIL COMMUNITIES OF THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY ARE AFFECTED BY HUMAN DISTURBANCE AND CORRELATE WITH VEGETATION COMMUNITY COMPOSITION. SOUTHWEST NAT 2020. [DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909-64.3-4.216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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- Briante S. Lewis Najev
- The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 1201 W University Drive, Edinburg, TX 78539 (BSLN, AS, RIF, JAM, KEP)
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- The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 1201 W University Drive, Edinburg, TX 78539 (BSLN, AS, RIF, JAM, KEP)
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- The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 1201 W University Drive, Edinburg, TX 78539 (BSLN, AS, RIF, JAM, KEP)
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- Edwards Aquifer Research & Data Center, Texas State University, Department of Biology, 601 University Drive, San Marcos TX 78666 (BTH)
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- The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 1201 W University Drive, Edinburg, TX 78539 (BSLN, AS, RIF, JAM, KEP)
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- The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 1201 W University Drive, Edinburg, TX 78539 (BSLN, AS, RIF, JAM, KEP)
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Emerging helminthiases of song thrush (Turdus philomelos) in Central Europe. Parasitol Res 2020; 119:4123-4134. [PMID: 33029718 DOI: 10.1007/s00436-020-06911-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2020] [Accepted: 09/27/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Turdus philomelos is a common Western Palearctic thrush species of forests and agricultural landscapes, where it relies on the presence of hedgerows, patches of trees, and shrubs. In the present study, we address long-term changes in component communities of trematodes in T. philomelos across the timespan of over half a century. Based on our preliminary observations, we hypothesized that component communities of trematodes in T. philomelos in the study area are more diverse and species-rich compared with several decades ago. In the 1961-2019, we performed full-body necropsies of T. philomelos, which originated from the southern Czech Republic, and examined them for the presence of trematodes. We compared the trematode species richness and diversity of the analyzed component communities. The number of trematode species per host steadily increased in time in adult females and males. In juveniles, the highest numbers of trematode species per host were reached already in 1961-1990, then dropped and slowly raised up again in the latter time periods. The newly accumulated evidence suggests that trematodes with intermediate hosts previously restricted to T. philomelos wintering grounds increased in abundance in the study area. Some of them (Morishitium polonicum, Psilotornus confertus) sporadically appeared in juveniles or first-year birds, from which they were previously completely absent. Some of the spreading species, such as Lutztrema attenuatum, are present in high prevalence and high intensities of infection. Yet unknown part of observed changes could be related to changes in food composition; however, direct evidence for changes in T. philomelos diet is lacking despite clear evidence for a decline in earthworms in agricultural landscapes.
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Fitting Competing Models of the Population Abundance Distribution: Land Snails from Nikopol Manganese Ore Basin Technosols. EKOLÓGIA (BRATISLAVA) 2019. [DOI: 10.2478/eko-2019-0027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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This paper examines the temporal dynamics of terrestrial mollusks of the Nikopol manganese ore basin technosols. The research was carried out at the Research Centre of the Dnipro Agrarian and Economic University in Pokrov (Ukraine). Sampling was carried out in 2012–2014 on four variants of artificial soil: formed on red-brown clays, on loess-like loams, on gray-green clays, and on humus-rich layer. The distribution of the number of individuals in a mollusk population was described by broken stick, Motomura, log-normal, Zipf, and Zipf-Mandelbrot models. It was shown that the series of models that best describe mollusk abundance distribution is specific for a particular species and technosols type and generally is invariant over time.
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Kwieciński Z, Rosin ZM, Jankowiak Ł, Sparks TH, Tryjanowski P. Thrush anvils are calcium source hotspots for many bird species. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blz126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Calcium is one of the most important elements determining reproductive success in birds, and snail shells are a well-known source of calcium for egg-laying females. In Europe, song thrushes, Turdus philomelos, break snails open at locations called anvils, eat the soft parts and leave the broken shells. Based on observational studies in 2011–2017 in western Poland, we showed that thrush anvils were visited by 54 other bird species (mainly smaller species) that collected the broken shell fragments. The frequency of visits to anvils differed among species and changed over the course of the breeding season, but anvils were especially used by females during the pre-laying period. Our study is the first description of such widespread exploitation of thrush anvils by other bird species, and we think that this phenomenon has been overlooked owing to the difficulties in recording anvils located, for example, on single small stones, stumps of felled trees and man-made objects such as glass bottles. We conclude that thrush anvils can be an important source of calcium for many bird species that adapt behaviourally to use these places. Hence, anvils should be recognized as localized hotspots for bird diversity.
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- Zbigniew Kwieciński
- Department of Avian Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Vertebrate Zoology and Anthropology, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland
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- Institute of Zoology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poznań, Poland
- Museum of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Institute of Zoology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poznań, Poland
- Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague 6, Czech Republic
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Kerstes NAG, Breeschoten T, Kalkman VJ, Schilthuizen M. Snail shell colour evolution in urban heat islands detected via citizen science. Commun Biol 2019; 2:264. [PMID: 31341963 PMCID: PMC6642149 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-019-0511-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2018] [Accepted: 06/21/2019] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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The extreme environmental conditions that prevail in cities are known to cause selection pressures leading to adaptive changes in wild, city-dwelling, organisms (urban evolution). The urban heat island, elevated temperatures in the city centre due to a combination of generation, reflection, and trapping of heat, is one of the best recognised and most widespread urban environmental factors. Here, we use a citizen-science approach to study the effects of urban heat on genetically-determined shell colour in the land snail Cepaea nemoralis in the Netherlands. We use smartphone applications to obtain colour data on almost 8000 snails throughout the country. Our analysis shows that snails in urban centres are more likely to be yellow than pink, an effect predicted on the basis of thermal selection. Urban yellow snails are also more likely to carry dark bands at the underside of the shell; these bands might affect thermoregulation in yet underexplored ways.
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 2333CR Leiden, The Netherlands
- Present Address: Biosystematics Group, Wageningen University & Research, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 2333CR Leiden, The Netherlands
- EIS Kenniscentrum Insecten, 2333CR Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 2333CR Leiden, The Netherlands
- Institute for Biology Leiden, Leiden University, 2333BE Leiden, The Netherlands
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Ożgo M, Cameron RAD, Horsák M, Pokryszko B, Chudaś M, Cichy A, Kaczmarek S, Kobak J, Marzec M, Mierzwa-Szymkowiak D, Parzonko D, Pyka G, Rosin Z, Skawina A, Soroka M, Sulikowska-Drozd A, Surowiec T, Szymanek M, Templin J, Urbańska M, Zając K, Zielska J, Żbikowska E, Żołądek J. Cepaea nemoralis (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) in Poland: patterns of variation in a range-expanding species. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blz029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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- Małgorzata Ożgo
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Kazimierz Wielki University, Ossolinskich, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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- Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
- Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum, London, UK
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- Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Kotlářská, Brno, Czechia
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- Museum of Natural History, Wrocław University, Sienkiewicza, Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Kazimierz Wielki University, Ossolinskich, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Kazimierz Wielki University, Ossolinskich, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
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- Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Experimental Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska, Poznań, Poland
- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Animal Physiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Miecznikowa, Warszawa, Poland
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, University of Szczecin, Wąska, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Banacha, Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Kazimierz Wielki University, Ossolinskich, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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- University of Warsaw, Faculty of Geology, Żwirki i Wigury, Warszawa, Poland
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Science, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego, Poznań, Poland
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Hydrobiology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Kazimierz Wielki University, Ossolinskich, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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Rosin ZM, Kwieciński Z, Lesicki A, Skórka P, Kobak J, Szymańska A, Osiejuk TS, Kałuski T, Jaskulska M, Tryjanowski P. Shell colour, temperature, (micro)habitat structure and predator pressure affect the behaviour of Cepaea nemoralis. THE SCIENCE OF NATURE - NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN 2018; 105:35. [PMID: 29744635 PMCID: PMC5942350 DOI: 10.1007/s00114-018-1560-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2017] [Revised: 04/12/2018] [Accepted: 04/24/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Although shell colour polymorphism of the land snail Cepaea nemoralis is a well-known phenomenon, proximate and ultimate factors driving its evolution remain uncertain. Polymorphic species show variation in behavioural responses to selective forces. Therefore, we estimated effects of various environmental factors (temperature, humidity, food availability, (micro)habitat structure and predatory pressure) on behavioural response (frequency of locomotion, climbing and hiding) of C. nemoralis morphs, in experimental and natural conditions. In the experimental part of study, the frequency of locomotion was negatively affected by temperature and the presence of food and positively influenced by the presence of light. Morphs significantly differed in behavioural responses to environmental variability. Pink mid-banded and yellow five-banded morphs climbed less often and hide in shelter more often than yellow and pink unbanded individuals when temperature was low and food was absent. Snails fed most often at moderate temperature compared to low and high temperatures. Field investigations partially confirmed differences among morphs in frequency of climbing, but not in terms of probability of hiding in sheltered sites. In natural colonies, temperature and (micro)habitat structure significantly affected frequency of climbing as well as hiding in shelter. Snails more often hid in sheltered sites where thrushes preyed on Cepaea. Tendency of unbanded morphs to climb trees may have evolved under avian predatory pressure as thrushes forage on a ground. Tendency of banded morphs to hide in sheltered sites may reflect prey preferences for cryptic background. The results implicate that differential behaviour of C. nemoralis morphs compensate for their morphological and physiological limitations of adaptation to habitat.
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- Zuzanna M Rosin
- Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61-614, Poznań, Poland.
- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7044, Se, 750 07, Uppsala, Sweden.
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- Department of Avian Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61-614, Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61-614, Poznań, Poland
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- Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Mickiewicza 33, 31-120, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Lwowska 1, 87-100, Toruń, Poland
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- Department of Behavioural Ecology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61-614, Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Behavioural Ecology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61-614, Poznań, Poland
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- Institute of Plant Protection - National Research Institute, Research Centre of Quarantine, Invasive and Genetically Modified Organisms, Wl. Wegorka 20, 60-318, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Entomology, Animal Pests & Biotechnology, Institute of Plant Protection - National Research Institute, Wladyslawa Wegorka 20, 60-318, Poznan, Poland
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- Institute of Zoology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 71C, 60-625, Poznań, Poland
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Balbi M, Ernoult A, Poli P, Madec L, Guiller A, Martin MC, Nabucet J, Beaujouan V, Petit EJ. Functional connectivity in replicated urban landscapes in the land snail (Cornu aspersum). Mol Ecol 2018; 27:1357-1370. [PMID: 29412498 DOI: 10.1111/mec.14521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2017] [Revised: 01/16/2018] [Accepted: 01/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Urban areas are highly fragmented and thereby exert strong constraints on individual dispersal. Despite this, some species manage to persist in urban areas, such as the garden snail, Cornu aspersum, which is common in cityscapes despite its low mobility. Using landscape genetic approaches, we combined study area replication and multiscale analysis to determine how landscape composition, configuration and connectivity influence snail dispersal across urban areas. At the overall landscape scale, areas with a high percentage of roads decreased genetic differentiation between populations. At the population scale, genetic differentiation was positively linked with building surface, the proportion of borders where wooded patches and roads appeared side by side and the proportion of borders combining wooded patches and other impervious areas. Analyses based on pairwise genetic distances validated the isolation-by-distance and isolation-by-resistance models for this land snail, with an equal fit to least-cost paths and circuit-theory-based models. Each of the 12 landscapes analysed separately yielded specific relations to environmental features, whereas analyses integrating all replicates highlighted general common effects. Our results suggest that urban transport infrastructures facilitate passive snail dispersal. At a local scale, corresponding to active dispersal, unfavourable habitats (wooded and impervious areas) isolate populations. This work upholds the use of replicated landscapes to increase the generalizability of landscape genetics results and shows how multiscale analyses provide insight into scale-dependent processes.
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- Manon Balbi
- UMR 6553 Ecosystems, Biodiversity, Evolution (Ecobio), CNRS, Université Rennes 1, Rennes, France
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- UMR 6553 Ecosystems, Biodiversity, Evolution (Ecobio), CNRS, Université Rennes 1, Rennes, France
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- UMR 6553 Ecosystems, Biodiversity, Evolution (Ecobio), CNRS, Université Rennes 1, Rennes, France
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- UMR 6553 Ecosystems, Biodiversity, Evolution (Ecobio), CNRS, Université Rennes 1, Rennes, France
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- Edysan FRE 3498, CNRS, Université de Picardie Jules Vernes, Amiens, France
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- UMR 6553 Ecosystems, Biodiversity, Evolution (Ecobio), CNRS, Université Rennes 1, Rennes, France
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- UMR LETG, CNRS, Université de Rennes 2, Rennes Cedex, France
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- ESE, Ecology and Ecosystem Health, INRA, Rennes, France
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