Complex patterns of environmental niche evolution in Iberian columbines (genus Aquilegia, ranunculaceae)  

作　　者：Rafael Jaime Julio M.Alcántara Jesús M.Bastida Pedro J.Rey 

机构地区：[1]Departamento de Biología Animal,Biología Vegetal y Ecología,Universidad de Jaén,Campus Las Lagunillas,s/n.,Jaén E-23071,Spain

出　　处：《Journal of Plant Ecology》2015年第5期457-467,共11页植物生态学报（英文版）

基　　金：Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación(MICINN,project CGL2006-02848);FEDER funds of the European Commission;MICINN grant(BES-2007-16060 to R.J.).

摘　　要：Aims This study explores the patterns of niche differentiation in a group of seven closely related columbines(genus Aquilegia,ranunculaceae)from the Iberian Peninsula.Populations of these columbines are subject to complex patterns of divergent selection across environ-ments,which partly explain the taxonomic structure of the group.This suggests the hypothesis that niche divergence must have occurred along the process of diversification of the group.Methods We used maxEnt to build environmental niche models of seven subspecies belonging to the three species of Aquilegia present in the Iberian Peninsula.From these models,we compared the envi-ronmental niches through two different approaches:ENmtools and multivariate methods.Important FindingsmaxEnt distributions conformed closely to the actual distribution of the study taxa.ENmtools methods failed to uncover any clear patterns of niche differentiation or conservatism in Iberian columbines.multivariate analyses indicate the existence of dif-ferentiation along altitudinal gradients and along a gradient of climatic conditions determined by the summer precipitation and temperatures.However,climatic conditions related to winter tem-perature and precipitation,as well as soil properties,were equally likely to show conservatism or divergence.The complex patterns of niche evolution we found suggest that Iberian Columbines have not been significantly constrained by forces of niche conservatism,so they could respond adaptively to the fast and profound climate changes in the Iberian Peninsula through the glacial cycles of the Pleistocene.

关 键 词：AQUILEGIA ecological niche modelling niche divergence niche conservatism evolution MAXENT ENmTools 

分 类 号：O17[理学—数学]