Climatic Niche Evolution in the Arremon brunneinucha Complex (Aves: Passerellidae) in a Mesoamerican Landscape

Moreno-Contreras, Israel; Sánchez‐González, Luis A.; Arizmendi, María del Coro; Prieto‐Torres, David A.; Navarro‐Sigüenza, Adolfo G.

doi:10.1007/s11692-020-09498-7

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“…To what extent the subsequent lack of sympatry in the genus is also constrained by competition or by local adaptation remains to be tested. Evidence for both of these hypotheses has been proposed for montane Arremon species but remains untested for the lowland groups (Cadena, 2007; Moreno‐Contreras et al, 2020; Remsen Jr & Graves IV, 1995).…”

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Biogeography of a neotropical songbird radiation reveals similar diversification dynamics between montane and lowland clades

Buainain

Ferreira

Avendaño

et al. 2022

Journal of Biogeography

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Aim Continental evolutionary radiations provide opportunities to understand how landscape evolution and biotic factors interact to generate species diversity. Additionally, understanding whether diversification dynamics differ between montane and lowland environments is a long‐standing question with few comparative analyses in the Neotropics. To address these questions, we investigated the biogeographical patterns and the evolutionary processes underlying the diversification of a songbird genus, and compared diversification dynamics of clades occurring in lowland and montane Neotropical habitats. Location Neotropical montane and lowland forests. Taxon Arremon(Aves: Passerellidae). Methods We sequenced genomic data (ultra‐conserved elements, UCEs) of 92 individuals (including historical skin specimens) comprising 47 of 50 currently recognized subspecies in the genus and collected habitat association data to (1) build the most complete phylogenetic hypothesis for the genus to date using maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods with a concatenated matrix, and a multi‐species coalescent method based on quartets; and (2) reconstruct the evolution of their ancestral ranges, habitat association and diversification rates. Results All phylogenetic methods recovered essentially the same topology with strong support values for most interspecific nodes revealing relationships among species. We found evidence for a montane and humid ancestral range in Central America in the late Miocene and a later expansion into the lowlands of Central America, as well as into the lowlands and mountains of South America. Despite some temporal variation in diversification rate, we found overall similar diversification dynamics between montane and lowland clades. Main conclusion Species diversity within the genus is likely underestimated by the current taxonomic arrangement. The colonization of lowlands and dry forests, and expansion across South America, may have provided new geographical and ecological opportunities for speciation resulting in high species diversification. Overall diversification dynamics were comparable between montane and lowland clades, contrasting with previous studies focused on such comparisons for Neotropical birds.

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“…for montane Arremon species but remains untested for the lowland groups (Cadena, 2007;Moreno-Contreras et al, 2020;Remsen Jr & Graves IV, 1995).…”

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Biogeography of a neotropical songbird radiation reveals similar diversification dynamics between montane and lowland clades

Buainain

Ferreira

Avendaño

et al. 2022

Journal of Biogeography

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“…The quantification of the realized niche of a species [1] (sensu Grinnell [2][3][4][5], hereafter niche) and how it varies across space and time has received increasing attention in ecological Birds 2022, 3 150 studies, with important implications in evolution, biogeography, and conservation [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. Many studies have focused on niche evolution in related taxa [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23], or on niche quantification of alien species to assess their potential as invaders in non-native ranges [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]. However, niche quantification and change in avian species remain poorly investigated aspects, especially if compared to other research topics (e.g., population trend assessment).…”

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New Evidence on the Linkage of Population Trends and Species Traits to Long-Term Niche Changes

Tirozzi

Orioli

Dondina

et al. 2022

Birds

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Despite the assessment of long-term niche dynamics could provide crucial information for investigating species responses to environmental changes, it is a poorly investigated topic in ecology. Here, we present a case study of multi-species niche analysis for 71 common breeding birds in Northern Italy, exploring long-term niche changes from 1992 to 2017 and their relationship with both population trends and species traits. We (i) quantified the realized Grinnellian niche in the environmental space, (ii) compared variations in niche breadth and centroid, (iii) tested niche divergence and conservatism through equivalency and similarity tests, (iv) calculated niche temporal overlap, expansion and unfilling indices, and (v) investigated their association with both population changes and species traits. Results supported niche divergence (equivalency test) for 32% of species, although two-thirds were not supported by the similarity test. We detected a general tendency to adjust the niche centroids towards warmer thermal conditions. Increasing populations were positively correlated with niche expansion, while negatively correlated with niche overlap, albeit at the limit of the significance threshold. We found moderate evidence for a non-random association between niche changes and species traits, especially for body size, clutch size, number of broods per year, inhabited landscape type, and migration strategy. We encourage studies correlating long-term population trends and niche changes with species traits’ information and a specific focus on cause-effect relationship at both the single and multiple-species level.

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“…A growing number of cases indicate the evolutionary shifts occurred in range limits with rapidly changing environments (Davis & Shaw, 2001;Evans et al, 2009;Peterson & Holt, 2003;Thomas et al, 2001). Moreover, researchers have documented morphological evolution is strongly influenced by ecological niche shifts in passerine birds (Alström et al, 2015), chestnut-capped brushfinches (Moreno-Contreras et al, 2020), Eurasian perches (such as Perca fluviatilis, Bartels et al, 2012), and bivalved scallops (Sherratt et al, 2017).…”

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Climatic‐niche evolution with key morphological innovations across clades within Scutiger boulengeri (Anura: Megophryidae)

Lin

Shih

Hou

et al. 2021

Ecology and Evolution

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Climatic Niche Evolution in the Arremon brunneinucha Complex (Aves: Passerellidae) in a Mesoamerican Landscape

Cited by 16 publications

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Biogeography of a neotropical songbird radiation reveals similar diversification dynamics between montane and lowland clades

Biogeography of a neotropical songbird radiation reveals similar diversification dynamics between montane and lowland clades

New Evidence on the Linkage of Population Trends and Species Traits to Long-Term Niche Changes

Climatic‐niche evolution with key morphological innovations across clades within Scutiger boulengeri (Anura: Megophryidae)

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