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Johnson O, Ribas CC, Aleixo A, Naka LN, Harvey MG, Brumfield RT. Amazonian birds in more dynamic habitats have less population genetic structure and higher gene flow. Mol Ecol 2023; 32:2186-2205. [PMID: 36798996 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2022] [Revised: 02/07/2023] [Accepted: 02/09/2023] [Indexed: 02/18/2023]
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Understanding the factors that govern variation in genetic structure across species is key to the study of speciation and population genetics. Genetic structure has been linked to several aspects of life history, such as foraging strategy, habitat association, migration distance, and dispersal ability, all of which might influence dispersal and gene flow. Comparative studies of population genetic data from species with differing life histories provide opportunities to tease apart the role of dispersal in shaping gene flow and population genetic structure. Here, we examine population genetic data from sets of bird species specialized on a series of Amazonian habitat types hypothesized to filter for species with dramatically different dispersal abilities: stable upland forest, dynamic floodplain forest, and highly dynamic riverine islands. Using genome-wide markers, we show that habitat type has a significant effect on population genetic structure, with species in upland forest, floodplain forest, and riverine islands exhibiting progressively lower levels of structure. Although morphological traits used as proxies for individual-level dispersal ability did not explain this pattern, population genetic measures of gene flow are elevated in species from more dynamic riverine habitats. Our results suggest that the habitat in which a species occurs drives the degree of population genetic structuring via its impact on long-term fluctuations in levels of gene flow, with species in highly dynamic habitats having particularly elevated gene flow. These differences in genetic variation across taxa specialized in distinct habitats may lead to disparate responses to environmental change or habitat-specific diversification dynamics over evolutionary time scales.
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- Oscar Johnson
- Department of Biological Sciences and Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG), Belém, Pará, Brazil.,Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.,Instituto Tecnológico Vale, Belém, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia & Evolução de Aves, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
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Rutt CL, Cooper WJ, Andretti CB, Costa TVV, Stouffer PC, Vargas CF, Luther DA, Cohn‐Haft M. Low species turnover of upland Amazonian birds in the absence of physical barriers. DIVERS DISTRIB 2023. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2023] Open
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- Cameron L. Rutt
- Department of Biology George Mason University Fairfax Virginia USA
- Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia Manaus Amazonas Brazil
- American Bird Conservancy The Plains Virginia USA
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- Department of Biology George Mason University Fairfax Virginia USA
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- Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) Network Manaus Amazonas Brazil
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- Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia Manaus Amazonas Brazil
- School of Renewable Natural Resources Louisiana State University AgCenter and Louisiana State University Baton Rouge Louisiana USA
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- Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) Network Manaus Amazonas Brazil
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- Department of Biology George Mason University Fairfax Virginia USA
- Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia Manaus Amazonas Brazil
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- Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) Network Manaus Amazonas Brazil
- Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia Manaus Amazonas Brazil
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Martins CB, Norris D, Michalski F. Diversity and activity of bird fauna in ephemeral river-created habitats in Amazonia. STUDIES ON NEOTROPICAL FAUNA AND ENVIRONMENT 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/01650521.2021.2005410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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- Cassiano Bueno Martins
- Postgraduate Programme in Tropical Biodiversity, Federal University of Amapá, Macapá, Brazil
- Ecology and Conservation of Amazonian Vertebrates Research Group, Federal University of Amapá, Macapá, Brazil
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- Postgraduate Programme in Tropical Biodiversity, Federal University of Amapá, Macapá, Brazil
- Ecology and Conservation of Amazonian Vertebrates Research Group, Federal University of Amapá, Macapá, Brazil
- School of Environmental Sciences, Federal University of Amapá, Macapá, Brazil
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- Postgraduate Programme in Tropical Biodiversity, Federal University of Amapá, Macapá, Brazil
- Ecology and Conservation of Amazonian Vertebrates Research Group, Federal University of Amapá, Macapá, Brazil
- Pro-Carnivores Institute, Atibaia, Brazil
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Cárdenas Ramírez GG, Jones MM, Heymann EW, Tuomisto H. Characterizing primate home‐ranges in Amazonia: Using ferns and lycophytes as indicators of site quality. Biotropica 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/btp.12935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Department of Biology University of Turku Turku Finland
- Institute of Biotechnology HiLIFE Helsinki Institute for Life ScienceUniversity of Helsinki Helsinki Finland
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- Verhaltensökologie und SoziobiologieDeutsches Primatenzentrum—Leibniz‐Institut für Primatenforschung Göttingen Germany
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Capurucho JMG, Ashley MV, Tsuru BR, Cooper JC, Bates JM. Dispersal ability correlates with range size in Amazonian habitat-restricted birds. Proc Biol Sci 2020; 287:20201450. [PMID: 33203330 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.1450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Understanding how species attain their geographical distributions and identifying traits correlated with range size are important objectives in biogeography, evolutionary biology and biodiversity conservation. Despite much effort, results have been varied and general trends have been slow to emerge. Studying species pools that occupy specific habitats, rather than clades or large groupings of species occupying diverse habitats, may better identify ranges size correlates and be more informative for conservation programmes in a rapidly changing world. We evaluated correlations between a set of organismal traits and range size in bird species from Amazonian white-sand ecosystems. We assessed if results are consistent when using different data sources for phylogenetic and range hypotheses. We found that dispersal ability, as measured by the hand-wing index, was correlated with range size in both white-sand birds and their non-white-sand sister taxa. White-sand birds had smaller ranges on average than their sister taxa. The results were similar and robust to the different data sources. Our results suggest that the patchiness of white-sand ecosystems limits species' ability to reach new habitat islands and establish new populations.
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- João M G Capurucho
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 W. Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60607, USA.,Life Sciences Section, Negaunee Integrative Research Center, The Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 W. Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
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- Life Sciences Section, Negaunee Integrative Research Center, The Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
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- Life Sciences Section, Negaunee Integrative Research Center, The Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, USA.,Committee on Evolutionary Biology, The University of Chicago, 1025 E 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Life Sciences Section, Negaunee Integrative Research Center, The Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
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Patterns and Processes of Diversification in Amazonian White Sand Ecosystems: Insights from Birds and Plants. NEOTROPICAL DIVERSIFICATION: PATTERNS AND PROCESSES 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-31167-4_11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Rossetti DF, Moulatlet GM, Tuomisto H, Gribel R, Toledo PM, Valeriano MM, Ruokolainen K, Cohen MCL, Cordeiro CLO, Rennó CD, Coelho LS, Ferreira CAC. White sand vegetation in an Amazonian lowland under the perspective of a young geological history. AN ACAD BRAS CIENC 2019; 91:e20181337. [PMID: 31800703 DOI: 10.1590/0001-3765201920181337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2018] [Accepted: 03/22/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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What controls the formation of patchy substrates of white sand vegetation in the Amazonian lowlands is still unclear. This research integrated the geological history and plant inventories of a white sand vegetation patch confined to one large fan-shaped sandy substrate of northern Amazonia, which is related to a megafan environment. We examined floristic patterns to determine whether abundant species are more often generalists than the rarer one, by comparing the megafan environments and older basement rocks. We also investigated the pattern of species accumulation as a function of increasing sampling effort. All plant groups recorded a high proportion of generalist species on the megafan sediments compared to older basement rocks. The vegetation structure is controlled by topographic gradients resulting from the smooth slope of the megafan morphology and microreliefs imposed by various megafan subenvironments. Late Pleistocene-Holocene environmental disturbances caused by megafan sedimentary processes controlled the distribution of white sand vegetation over a large area of the Amazonian lowlands, and may have also been an important factor in species diversification during this period. The integration of geological and biological data may shed new light on the existence of many patches of white sand vegetation from the plains of northern Amazonia.
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- Dilce F Rossetti
- Instituto Brasileiro de Pesquisas Espaciais/INPE, Coordenação Geral de Observação da Terra/CGOBT, Rua dos Astronautas, 1758, Jardim da Granja, 12245-970 São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
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- Universidad Regional Amazónica/IKIAM, Km 7, Vía Muyuna, Parroquia Muyuna, Tena, Napo, Ecuador
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- University of Turku /UTU, Department of Biology, 20014, Turku, Finland
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia/ INPA, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Av. André Araújo, 2936, 69067-375 Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Instituto Brasileiro de Pesquisas Espaciais/INPE, Coordenação Geral de Observação da Terra/CGOBT, Rua dos Astronautas, 1758, Jardim da Granja, 12245-970 São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
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- Instituto Brasileiro de Pesquisas Espaciais/INPE, Coordenação Geral de Observação da Terra/CGOBT, Rua dos Astronautas, 1758, Jardim da Granja, 12245-970 São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
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- University of Turku/UTU, Department of Geography and Geology, 20014, Turku, Finland
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geologia e Geoquímica, Universidade Federal do Pará/UFPA, Rua Augusto Correa 01, Guamá, 66075-110 Belém, PA, Brazil
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- Instituto Brasileiro de Pesquisas Espaciais/INPE, Coordenação Geral de Observação da Terra/CGOBT, Rua dos Astronautas, 1758, Jardim da Granja, 12245-970 São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
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- Instituto Brasileiro de Pesquisas Espaciais/INPE, Coordenação Geral de Observação da Terra/CGOBT, Rua dos Astronautas, 1758, Jardim da Granja, 12245-970 São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia/ INPA, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Av. André Araújo, 2936, 69067-375 Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia/ INPA, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Av. André Araújo, 2936, 69067-375 Manaus, AM, Brazil
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Socolar JB, Wilcove DS. Forest-type specialization strongly predicts avian responses to tropical agriculture. Proc Biol Sci 2019; 286:20191724. [PMID: 31640506 PMCID: PMC6834059 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.1724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2019] [Accepted: 10/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Species' traits influence how populations respond to land-use change. However, even in well-characterized groups such as birds, widely studied traits explain only a modest proportion of the variance in response across species. Here, we show that associations with particular forest types strongly predict the sensitivity of forest-dwelling Amazonian birds to agriculture. Incorporating these fine-scale habitat associations into models of population response dramatically improves predictive performance and markedly outperforms the functional traits that commonly appear in similar analyses. Moreover, by identifying habitat features that support assemblages of unusually sensitive habitat-specialist species, our model furnishes straightforward conservation recommendations. In Amazonia, species that specialize on forests along a soil-nutrient gradient (i.e. both rich-soil specialists and poor-soil specialists) are exceptionally sensitive to agriculture, whereas species that specialize on floodplain forests are unusually insensitive. Thus, habitat specialization per se does not predict disturbance sensitivity, but particular habitat associations do. A focus on conserving specific habitats that harbour highly sensitive avifaunas (e.g. poor-soil forest) would protect a critically threatened component of regional biodiversity. We present a conceptual model to explain the divergent responses of habitat specialists in the different habitats, and we suggest that similar patterns and conservation opportunities probably exist for other taxa and regions.
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- Jacob B. Socolar
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
- Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Akershus, Norway
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- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
- Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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Laranjeiras TO, Naka LN, Cohn‐Haft M. Using river color to predict Amazonian floodplain forest avifaunas in the world's largest blackwater river basin. Biotropica 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/btp.12650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Thiago Orsi Laranjeiras
- Programa de Pós‐Graduação em EcologiaInstituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia – INPA Manaus Brazil
- Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade Boa Vista, Roraima Brazil
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- Laboratório de OrnitologiaDepartamento de ZoologiaUniversidade Federal de Pernambuco Recife, Pernambuco Brazil
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- Coleção de AvesCoordenação de Pesquisas em BiodiversidadeInstituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia – INPA Manaus Brazil
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Antonelli A, Ariza M, Albert J, Andermann T, Azevedo J, Bacon C, Faurby S, Guedes T, Hoorn C, Lohmann LG, Matos-Maraví P, Ritter CD, Sanmartín I, Silvestro D, Tejedor M, ter Steege H, Tuomisto H, Werneck FP, Zizka A, Edwards SV. Conceptual and empirical advances in Neotropical biodiversity research. PeerJ 2018; 6:e5644. [PMID: 30310740 PMCID: PMC6174874 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2017] [Accepted: 08/27/2018] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
Abstract
The unparalleled biodiversity found in the American tropics (the Neotropics) has attracted the attention of naturalists for centuries. Despite major advances in recent years in our understanding of the origin and diversification of many Neotropical taxa and biotic regions, many questions remain to be answered. Additional biological and geological data are still needed, as well as methodological advances that are capable of bridging these research fields. In this review, aimed primarily at advanced students and early-career scientists, we introduce the concept of "trans-disciplinary biogeography," which refers to the integration of data from multiple areas of research in biology (e.g., community ecology, phylogeography, systematics, historical biogeography) and Earth and the physical sciences (e.g., geology, climatology, palaeontology), as a means to reconstruct the giant puzzle of Neotropical biodiversity and evolution in space and time. We caution against extrapolating results derived from the study of one or a few taxa to convey general scenarios of Neotropical evolution and landscape formation. We urge more coordination and integration of data and ideas among disciplines, transcending their traditional boundaries, as a basis for advancing tomorrow's ground-breaking research. Our review highlights the great opportunities for studying the Neotropical biota to understand the evolution of life.
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- Alexandre Antonelli
- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Botanical Garden, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Organismic Biology and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Laboratory Ecologie et Biologie des Interactions, Team “Ecologie, Evolution, Symbiose”, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France
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- Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, USA
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Federal University of São Paulo, Diadema, Brazil
- Museum of Zoology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Universidad Regional Amazonica IKIAM, Napo, Ecuador
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- Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Instituto Patagónico de Geología y Paleontología, Puerto Madryn, Guatemala
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands
- Systems Ecology, Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Organismic Biology and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Gothenburg Centre for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Harvey MG, Aleixo A, Ribas CC, Brumfield RT. Habitat Association Predicts Genetic Diversity and Population Divergence in Amazonian Birds. Am Nat 2017; 190:631-648. [PMID: 29053360 DOI: 10.1086/693856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
Abstract
The ecological traits of organisms may predict their genetic diversity and population genetic structure and mediate the action of evolutionary processes important for speciation and adaptation. Making these ecological-evolutionary links is difficult because it requires comparable genetic estimates from many species with differing ecologies. In Amazonian birds, habitat association is an important component of ecological diversity. Here, we examine the link between habitat association and genetic parameters using 20 pairs of closely related Amazonian bird species in which one member of the pair occurs primarily in forest edge and floodplains and the other occurs in upland forest interior. We use standardized geographic sampling and data from 2,416 genomic markers to estimate genetic diversity, population genetic structure, and statistics reflecting demographic and evolutionary processes. We find that species of upland forest have greater genetic diversity and divergence across the landscape as well as signatures of older histories and less gene flow than floodplain species. Our results reveal that species ecology in the form of habitat association is an important predictor of genetic diversity and population divergence and suggest that differences in diversity between floodplain and upland avifaunas in the Amazon may be driven by differences in the demographic and evolutionary processes at work in the two habitats.
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- J. Marion Adeney
- Nicholas School of the Environment Duke University Durham, NC 27708 U.S.A
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- Depto. Biodiversidade (CBio) e Coleções Zoológicas Instituto de Pesquisas da Amazônia Manaus AM Brazil
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- Depto. Biodiversidade (CBio) e Coleções Zoológicas Instituto de Pesquisas da Amazônia Manaus AM Brazil
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Borges SH, Cornelius C, Moreira M, Ribas CC, Conh-Haft M, Capurucho JM, Vargas C, Almeida R. Bird Communities in Amazonian White-Sand Vegetation Patches: Effects of Landscape Configuration and Biogeographic Context. Biotropica 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/btp.12296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Sergio H. Borges
- Fundação Vitória Amazônica (FVA); Rua Estrela d'Alva 146 Aleixo Manaus AM 69.060-093 Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM); Av. Rodrigo Otávio Jordão Ramos 3000 Bloco E Setor Sul Manaus AM 69077-000 Brazil
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- Fundação Vitória Amazônica (FVA); Rua Estrela d'Alva 146 Aleixo Manaus AM 69.060-093 Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA); Av. André Araújo 2936 Manaus AM 69060-001 Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA); Av. André Araújo 2936 Manaus AM 69060-001 Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA); Av. André Araújo 2936 Manaus AM 69060-001 Brazil
- Department of Biological Sciences; University of Illinois at Chicago; 845 W. Taylor Street Chicago Illinois 60607 U.S.A
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA); Av. André Araújo 2936 Manaus AM 69060-001 Brazil
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- Fundação Vitória Amazônica (FVA); Rua Estrela d'Alva 146 Aleixo Manaus AM 69.060-093 Brazil
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Guevara JE, Damasco G, Baraloto C, Fine PVA, Peñuela MC, Castilho C, Vincentini A, Cárdenas D, Wittmann F, Targhetta N, Phillips O, Stropp J, Amaral I, Maas P, Monteagudo A, Jimenez EM, Thomas R, Brienen R, Duque Á, Magnusson W, Ferreira C, Honorio E, Almeida Matos F, Arevalo FR, Engel J, Petronelli P, Vasquez R, Steege H. Low Phylogenetic Beta Diversity and Geographic Neo‐endemism in Amazonian White‐sand Forests. Biotropica 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/btp.12298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- Juan Ernesto Guevara
- Department of Integrative Biology University of California Berkeley CA 94720‐3140 U.S.A
- Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales Quito Ecuador
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- Department of Integrative Biology University of California Berkeley CA 94720‐3140 U.S.A
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- UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) Kourou French Guiana
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- Department of Integrative Biology University of California Berkeley CA 94720‐3140 U.S.A
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- EMBRAPA Centro de Pesquisa Agroflorestal de Roraima Boa Vista Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia‐INPA Coordenação de Pesquisas em Ecologia Manaos Brazil
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- SINCHI Herbario Amazónico Colombiano‐COAH Calle 20 No.5‐44 Bogotá Colombia
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- Department of Biochemistry Max Planck Institute for Chemistry Hahn Meitner Weg 1 55128 Mainz Germany
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia‐INPA Coordenação de Pesquisas em Ecologia Manaos Brazil
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- Institute of Biological and Health Sciences Federal University of Alagoas Maceió AL Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia–INPA Projeto TEAM‐Manaus Manaus Brazil
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- Department of Botany Naturalis Biodiversity Center Leiden The Netherlands
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- Missouri Botanical Garden 4344 Shaw Blvd. St. Louis MO 63110 U.S.A
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- Iwokrama International Programme for Rainforest Conservation 77 High Street Kingston Georgetown Guiana
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- School of Geography University of Leeds Leeds U.K
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- Departamento de Ciencias Forestales Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medellín Colombia
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia‐INPA Coordenação de Pesquisas em Ecologia Manaos Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia‐INPA Coordenação de Pesquisas em Ecologia Manaos Brazil
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- Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana Iquitos Peru
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia‐INPA Coordenação de Pesquisas em Ecologia Manaos Brazil
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- UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) Kourou French Guiana
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- UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) Kourou French Guiana
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- Missouri Botanical Garden 4344 Shaw Blvd. St. Louis MO 63110 U.S.A
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center Leiden the Netherlands
- Ecology and Biodiversity Group Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands
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Lamarre GP, Amoretti DS, Baraloto C, Bénéluz F, Mesones I, Fine PV. Phylogenetic Overdispersion in Lepidoptera Communities of Amazonian White‐sand Forests. Biotropica 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/btp.12294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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- Greg P.A. Lamarre
- Université Antilles‐Guyane UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane Campus agronomique de Kourou 97310 Kourou French Guiana
- INRA UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane Campus agronomique de Kourou 97310 Kourou French Guiana
- Société Entomologique Antilles‐Guyane (SEAG) 18 lot Amaryllis 97354 Rémire‐Montjoly French Guiana
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- Department of Integrative Biology University of California 1005 Valley Life Sciences Building #3140 Berkeley CA 94720 U.S.A
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- INRA UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane Campus agronomique de Kourou 97310 Kourou French Guiana
- Department of Biological Sciences International Center for Tropical Botany Florida International University Miami FL 33199 U.S.A
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- Société Entomologique Antilles‐Guyane (SEAG) 18 lot Amaryllis 97354 Rémire‐Montjoly French Guiana
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- Department of Integrative Biology University of California 1005 Valley Life Sciences Building #3140 Berkeley CA 94720 U.S.A
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- Department of Integrative Biology University of California 1005 Valley Life Sciences Building #3140 Berkeley CA 94720 U.S.A
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Fine PVA, Baraloto C. Habitat Endemism in White‐sand Forests: Insights into the Mechanisms of Lineage Diversification and Community Assembly of the Neotropical Flora. Biotropica 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/btp.12301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- Paul V. A. Fine
- Department of Integrative Biology and University and Jepson Herbaria University of California 3040 Valley Life Sciences Building #3140 Berkeley CA 94720 U.S.A
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- INRA UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane 97310 Kourou French Guiana
- Department of Biological Sciences and International Center for Tropical Botany Florida International University Miami FL 33199 U.S.A
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Misiewicz TM, Fine PVA. Evidence for ecological divergence across a mosaic of soil types in an Amazonian tropical tree: Protium subserratum (Burseraceae). Mol Ecol 2014; 23:2543-58. [PMID: 24703227 DOI: 10.1111/mec.12746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2013] [Revised: 03/20/2014] [Accepted: 03/28/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Soil heterogeneity is an important driver of divergent natural selection in plants. Neotropical forests have the highest tree diversity on earth, and frequently, soil specialist congeners are distributed parapatrically. While the role of edaphic heterogeneity in the origin and maintenance of tropical tree diversity is unknown, it has been posited that natural selection across the patchwork of soils in the Amazon rainforest is important in driving and maintaining tree diversity. We examined genetic and morphological differentiation among populations of the tropical tree Protium subserratum growing parapatrically on the mosaic of white-sand, brown-sand and clay soils found throughout western Amazonia. Nuclear microsatellites and leaf morphology were used to (i) quantify the extent of phenotypic and genetic divergence across habitat types, (ii) assess the importance of natural selection vs. drift in population divergence, (iii) determine the extent of hybridization and introgression across habitat types, (iv) estimate migration rates among populations. We found significant morphological variation correlated with soil type. Higher levels of genetic differentiation and lower migration rates were observed between adjacent populations found on different soil types than between geographically distant populations on the same soil type. PST -FST comparisons indicate a role for natural selection in population divergence among soil types. A small number of hybrids were detected suggesting that gene flow among soil specialist populations may occur at low frequencies. Our results suggest that edaphic specialization has occurred multiple times in P. subserratum and that divergent natural selection across edaphic boundaries may be a general mechanism promoting and maintaining Amazonian tree diversity.
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- Tracy M Misiewicz
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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