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T1 Biogeographic ranges do not support niche theory in radiating Canary Island plant clades
A1 Steinbauer, Manuel J.
A1 Field, Richard
A1 Fernández-Palacios, José María
A1 Irl, Severin D.H.
A1 Otto, Rüdiger
A1 Schaefer, Hanno
A1 Beierkuhnlein, Carl
K1 Adaptive radiation
K1 Climate
K1 Competition
K1 Divergence
K1 Ecological character displacement
K1 Endemic plants
K1 Ghost of competition past
K1 Niche conservatism
K1 Sister clades
K1 Speciation
AB Ecological niche concepts, in combination with biogeographic history,underlie our understanding of biogeographic ranges. Two pillars of this understandingare competitive displacement and niche conservatism. The competitivedisplacement hypothesis holds that very similar (e.g. closely related) co-occurringspecies should diverge, forced apart by competition. In contrast, according to theniche conservatism hypothesis, closely related species should have similar niches. Ifthese are fundamental structuring forces, they should be detectable when comparingthe climatic niches of endemic species in radiating clades in oceanic archipelagos,where closely related species exist in both sympatry and allopatry and thespecies’ entire ranges are known. We took advantage of this natural experimentalsystem to test whether the climatic niche relationships predicted by the two hypothesesare found.
PB Wiley
SN 1466-822X
YR 2016
FD 2016
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 21-nov-2024