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Reeve AH, Kennedy JD, Pujolar JM, Petersen B, Blom MPK, Alström P, Haryoko T, Ericson PGP, Irestedt M, Nylander JAA, Jønsson KA. The formation of the Indo-Pacific montane avifauna. Nat Commun 2023; 14:8215. [PMID: 38081809 PMCID: PMC10713610 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-43964-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2022] [Accepted: 11/24/2023] [Indexed: 12/18/2023] Open
Abstract
The processes generating the earth's montane biodiversity remain a matter of debate. Two contrasting hypotheses have been advanced to explain how montane populations form: via direct colonization from other mountains, or, alternatively, via upslope range shifts from adjacent lowland areas. We seek to reconcile these apparently conflicting hypotheses by asking whether a species' ancestral geographic origin determines its mode of mountain colonization. Island-dwelling passerine birds at the faunal crossroads between Eurasia and Australo-Papua provide an ideal study system. We recover the phylogenetic relationships of the region's montane species and reconstruct their ancestral geographic ranges, elevational ranges, and migratory behavior. We also perform genomic population studies of three super-dispersive montane species/clades with broad island distributions. Eurasian-origin species populated archipelagos via direct colonization between mountains. This mode of colonization appears related to ancestral adaptations to cold and seasonal climates, specifically short-distance migration. Australo-Papuan-origin mountain populations, by contrast, evolved from lowland ancestors, and highland distribution mostly precludes their further colonization of island mountains. Our study explains much of the distributional variation within a complex biological system, and provides a synthesis of two seemingly discordant hypotheses for montane community formation.
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- Andrew Hart Reeve
- Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.
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- Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
- Centre for Gelatinous Plankton Ecology and Evolution, DTU Aqua, Kemitorvet, Building 202, DK-2800, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-1353, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Centre of Excellence for Omics-Driven Computational Biodiscovery (COMBio), Faculty of Applied Sciences, AIMST University, Kedah, Malaysia
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- Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung, 10115, Berlin, Germany
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- Animal Ecology, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Research Center for Biosystematics and Evolution, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Cibinong, 16911, Indonesia
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 50007, SE-104 05, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 50007, SE-104 05, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 50007, SE-104 05, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
- Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 50007, SE-104 05, Stockholm, Sweden
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Forcina G, Boesman P, Jowers MJ. Cryptic diversity in a neotropical avian species complex untangled by neglected genetic evidence. STUDIES ON NEOTROPICAL FAUNA AND ENVIRONMENT 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/01650521.2021.1915674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Giovanni Forcina
- CIBIO/InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal
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- CIBIO/InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal
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Rheindt FE, Prawiradilaga DM, Ashari H, Suparno, Gwee CY, Lee GWX, Wu MY, Ng NSR. A lost world in Wallacea: Description of a montane archipelagic
avifauna. Science 2020; 367:167-170. [DOI: 10.1126/science.aax2146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2019] [Accepted: 11/21/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
Birds are the best-known animal class, with only about five or six new
species descriptions per year since 1999. Integrating genomic and phenotypic
research with arduous fieldwork in remote regions, we describe five new songbird
species and five new subspecies from a small area near Sulawesi, Indonesia, all
collected in a single 6-week expedition. Two factors contributed to the
description of this large number of species from such a small geographic area: (i)
Knowledge of Quaternary Period land connections helped pinpoint isolated islands
likely to harbor substantial endemism and (ii) studying accounts of historic
collectors such as Alfred Wallace facilitated the identification of undercollected
islands. Our findings suggest that humans’ understanding of biogeographically
complex regions such as Wallacea remains incomplete.
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- Frank E. Rheindt
- National University of Singapore, Department of Biological Sciences, 14 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117543
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- Division of Zoology, Research Center for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Jalan Raya Jakarta Bogor KM 46, Cibinong Science Center, Cibinong 16911, Indonesia
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- Division of Zoology, Research Center for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Jalan Raya Jakarta Bogor KM 46, Cibinong Science Center, Cibinong 16911, Indonesia
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- Division of Zoology, Research Center for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Jalan Raya Jakarta Bogor KM 46, Cibinong Science Center, Cibinong 16911, Indonesia
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- National University of Singapore, Department of Biological Sciences, 14 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117543
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- National University of Singapore, Department of Biological Sciences, 14 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117543
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- National University of Singapore, Department of Biological Sciences, 14 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117543
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- National University of Singapore, Department of Biological Sciences, 14 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117543
- Department of Conservation and Research, Wildlife Reserves Singapore, 80 Mandai Lake Road, Singapore 729826
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Forcina G, Guerrini M, Panayides P, Hadjigerou P, Khan AA, Barbanera F. Molecular taxonomy and intra-Palaearctic boundary: new insights from the biogeography of the black francolin (Francolinus francolinus) by means of microsatellite DNA. SYST BIODIVERS 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2019.1691673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Giovanni Forcina
- CIBIO/InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Vairão, 4485-661, Portugal
- Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Via A. Volta 4, Pisa, I-56126, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Via A. Volta 4, Pisa, I-56126, Italy
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- Game & Fauna Service, Ministry of Interior, Nicosia, CY-1453, Cyprus
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- Institute of Pure & Applied Biology, Zoology Division, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, 60800, Pakistan
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- Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Via A. Volta 4, Pisa, I-56126, Italy
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