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Environment and evolutionary history shape phylogenetic turnover in European tetrapods

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  • Bianca Saladin

    (Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL)

  • Wilfried Thuiller

    (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, LECA, Laboratoire d’Écologie Alpine)

  • Catherine H. Graham

    (Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL)

  • Sébastien Lavergne

    (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, LECA, Laboratoire d’Écologie Alpine)

  • Luigi Maiorano

    (Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’)

  • Nicolas Salamin

    (University of Lausanne
    Quartier Sorge)

  • Niklaus E. Zimmermann

    (Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL)

Abstract

Phylogenetic turnover quantifies the evolutionary distance among species assemblages and is central to understanding the main drivers shaping biodiversity. It is affected both by geographic and environmental distance between sites. Therefore, analyzing phylogenetic turnover in environmental space requires removing the effect of geographic distance. Here, we apply a novel approach by deciphering phylogenetic turnover of European tetrapods in environmental space after removing geographic land distance effects. We demonstrate that phylogenetic turnover is strongly structured in environmental space, particularly in ectothermic tetrapods, and is well explained by macroecological characteristics such as niche size, species richness and relative phylogenetic diversity. In ectotherms, rather recent evolutionary processes were important in structuring phylogenetic turnover along environmental gradients. In contrast, early evolutionary processes had already shaped the current structure of phylogenetic turnover in endotherms. Our approach enables the disentangling of the idiosyncrasies of evolutionary processes such as the degree of niche conservatism and diversification rates in structuring biodiversity.

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  • Bianca Saladin & Wilfried Thuiller & Catherine H. Graham & Sébastien Lavergne & Luigi Maiorano & Nicolas Salamin & Niklaus E. Zimmermann, 2019. "Environment and evolutionary history shape phylogenetic turnover in European tetrapods," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 10(1), pages 1-9, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:10:y:2019:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-018-08232-4
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-08232-4
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    1. Hong Qian & Shenhua Qian & Jian Zhang & Michael Kessler, 2024. "Effects of climate and environmental heterogeneity on the phylogenetic structure of regional angiosperm floras worldwide," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-13, December.

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