Phylodiversity to inform conservation policy: An Australian example

Laity, Tania; Laffan, Shawn W.; González‐Orozco, Carlos E.; Faith, Daniel P.; Rosauer, Dan F.; Byrne, Margaret; Miller, Joe; Crayn, Darren M.; Costion, Craig M.; Moritz, Craig; Newport, Karl

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.113

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“…Three explanations for biodiversity hotspots tested: Daviesia and Bossiaea (Fabaceae) Cook et al (2015) x Aust Selected mesic Australian biota Byrne et al (2011b) x A u s t Acacia (Mimosaceae) González-Orozco et al (2011) x Aust Arid Zone/ semiarid refugia freshwater wetland fish and invertebrates Davis et al (2013) x A u s t Acacia (Mimosaceae) Miller et al (2013) x A u s t Banksia (including Dryandra: Proteaceae) Cardillo and Pratt (2013) x A u s t S a l t -t o l e r a n t Acacia (Mimosaceae) Bui et al (2014a) Plant Soil x A u s t S a l t -t o l e r a n t Acacia (Mimosaceae) Bui et al (2014b) x A u s t Glycine (Fabaceae) González-Álvarez et al (2012) x A u s t Bothriembryon (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) Breure and Whisson (2012) x Gond Rfor Plant genera Acacia (Mimosaceae) and Daviesia (Fabaceae), mammals, hylid frogs, myobatrachid frogs, passerine birds, and camaenid land snails Laity et al (2015) x Aust, SAf, Ind, Braz Subterranean fauna -water beetles, ostracods, copepods, arachnids, Collembola, Coleoptera, Blattodea, Hemiptera Restionaceae diversification, seeder sprouter Litsios et al (2014) x Flora of Grootbos, ca. 150 km southeast of Cape Town Cowling et al (2009a) x A n i m a l s a n d p l a n t s -phylogeographic studies Lexer et al (2013) x EAf, SAf amphibians Poynton (2013) x Oxalis (Oxalidaceae), especially vernal pool species Oberlander et al (2014) x Speciation, extinction -Greater Cape flora Ellis et al (2014) x Topography as a driver of diversification x Salerno et al (2012) x Aulacorhynchus toucanets (Aves, Ramphastidae) Bonaccorso and Guayasamin (2013) x Lizards -Riolama, Arthrosaura, Anadia (Gymnophthalmidae); FrogsOreophrynella (Bufonidae), Anomaloglossus (Aromobatidae), Kok (2013) Plant Soil Tepuihyla tree frogs Salerno et al (2015) x glob Asteraceae, clarifying tepui endemics' position Panero and Funk (2008) x Whole flora Rapini et al (2008) x Vellozia gigantea (Velloziaceae) Martins et al (2012) AtRf Inselberg flora de Paula et al (2015) glob Climatic displacement rate (low-velocity) areas are essential refuges for many small-ranged endemic specie...…”

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“…Binks et al (2015) x A u s t Tas Giant eucalypts (Myrtaceae) Tng et al (2012) x Gond Rfor Plant genera Acacia (Mimosaceae) and Daviesia (Fabaceae), mammals, hylid frogs, myobatrachid frogs, passerine birds, and camaenid land snails Laity et al (2015) x Leiothrix (Eriocaulaceae) Coelho et al (2014) glob Ring formation across many taxa Bonanomi et al (2014) Gond Rfor Patterns of rain forest plant endemism in subtropical Australia relate to stable mesic refugia and species dispersal limitations.…”

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Biodiversity hotspots and Ocbil theory

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Silveira

Fiedler³

2015

Plant Soil

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Background Ocbil theory aims to develop hypotheses explaining the evolution and ecology of, and best conservation practices for, biota on very old, climatically buffered, infertile landscapes (Ocbils). Scope This paper reviews recent multi-disciplinary literature inspired by or reacting to aspects of Ocbil theory and discusses how it can assist conservation in biodiversity hotspots. Conclusions Ocbils occur in at least 12 out of 35 known terrestrial hotspots, but also in other biologically significant sites. Most evidence comes from the Southwest Australian and Greater Cape Floristic Regions, South America's Pantepui, and the Campo Rupestre of Brazil, though predictions of the theory have been corroborated in 22 sites across South America, Western and Eastern Africa, Southern Asia, and Oceania. Most hypotheses have been corroborated, indicating that Ocbil theory has survived largely intact after 6 years of independent scientific critique, quantitative experimentation, and development. The theory also has been extended to allow identification and characterization of OCBISs (old, climatically-buffered, infertile seascapes), and OCFELs (old, climatically-buffered, fertile landscapes). We illustrate that the principles of Ocbil theory are key to conservation of biodiversity at global scale and provide new directions for research that can improve the theoretical and practical contributions of Ocbil theory.

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Section: Edwards and Robertsmentioning

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Biodiversity hotspots and Ocbil theory

Hopper

Silveira

Fiedler³

2015

Plant Soil

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“…Because the ratio is subtracted from one, values close to one indicate well sampled cells while the values close to zero indicate that each species was sampled only once. Following Laity et al (2015), we defined cells with the redundancy scores above 0.3 as well sampled. The index was calculated for the dataset with over 45,000 records representing collecting events and/or specimens.…”

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Key environmental determinants of global and regional richness and endemism patterns for a wild bee subfamily

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Reports of world-wide decline of pollinators, and of bees in particular, raise increasing concerns about maintenance of pollination interactions. While local factors of bee decline are relatively well known and potential mitigation strategies at the landscape scale have been outlined, the regional and continental-scale threats to bee diversity have only been marginally explored. Here we document large-scale spatial patterns for a representative bee subfamily, the determinants of its species richness, and assess major threats to these pollinators. Using a comprehensive global dataset of Colletinae (genera Colletes, also called ''polyester'' or ''cellophane'' bees for their underground nests lined with a polyester secretion, and Mourecotelles), a species-rich subfamily whose organismal and physiological ecology is representative of many bees, we measured species richness and endemism on global to continental scales. We explored the relationships between bee species richness and potential environmental stress factors grouped into three categories: contemporary climate, habitat heterogeneity, and anthropogenic pressure. Bees of the subfamily Colletinae demonstrate the reversed latitudinal gradient in species richness and endemism suggested for bees; the highest species richness of Colletinae was found between 30°and 50°latitude in both the northern and southern hemispheres. Centres of endemism largely overlapped with those of species richness. The importance of the Greater Cape Floristic Region, previously identified as a centre of richness and endemism of bees, 123Biodivers Conserv (2018Conserv ( ) 27:287-309 https://doi.org/10.1007Conserv ( /s10531-017-1432 was confirmed for Colletinae. On the global scale, present-day climate was a significant predictor of species richness as was flowering plant diversity represented by vascular plant species richness and centres of plant diversity. Our main conclusion is that climate change constitutes a potential threat to bee diversity, as does declining diversity of vascular plants. However, a significant overlap between centres of bee richness and plant diversity might increase chances for developing conservation strategies.

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“…Comparative phylogeography has been envisioned has having an important role in biodiversity conservation nearly since its beginnings (53) and continues to contribute valuable information for conservation purposes. The breadth of potential applications is enormous, for example, deriving quantitative measures of phylogenetic diversity and phylogenetic endemism in biodiversity hotspots on either end of an entire continent (54). However, value on much smaller spatial scales is also possible, illustrated by the use of phylogeographic data from 12 species of mammals, herps, and invertebrates to derive estimates of biodiversity hotspots (genetic diversity and genetic divergence) within the Mojave and Sonoran deserts in southwestern North America (55).…”

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Comparative phylogeography clarifies the complexity and problems of continental distribution that drove A. R. Wallace to favor islands

Riddle

2016

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Deciphering the geographic context of diversification and distributional dynamics in continental biotas has long been an interest of biogeographers, ecologists, and evolutionary biologists. Thirty years ago, the approach now known as comparative phylogeography was introduced in a landmark study of a continental biota. Here, I use a set of 455 studies to explore the current scope of continental comparative phylogeography, including geographic, conceptual, temporal, ecological, and genomic attributes. Geographically, studies are more frequent in the northern hemisphere, but the south is catching up. Most studies focus on a Quaternary timeframe, but the Neogene is well represented. As such, explanations for geographic structure and history include geological and climatic events in Earth history, and responses include vicariance, dispersal, and range contraction-expansion into and out of refugia. Focal taxa are biased toward terrestrial or semiterrestrial vertebrates, although plants and invertebrates are well represented in some regions. The use of various kinds of nuclear DNA markers is increasing, as are multiple locus studies, but use of organelle DNA is not decreasing. Species distribution models are not yet widely incorporated into studies. In the future, continental comparative phylogeographers will continue to contribute to erosion of the simple vicariance vs. dispersal paradigm, including exposure of the widespread nature of temporal pseudocongruence and its implications for models of diversification; provide new templates for addressing a variety of ecological and evolutionary traits; and develop closer working relationships with earth scientists and biologists in a variety of disciplines.biogeography | biodiversity conservation | evolutionary biology | diversification | ecology

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Phylodiversity to inform conservation policy: An Australian example

Cited by 77 publications

References 51 publications

Biodiversity hotspots and Ocbil theory

Biodiversity hotspots and Ocbil theory

Key environmental determinants of global and regional richness and endemism patterns for a wild bee subfamily

Comparative phylogeography clarifies the complexity and problems of continental distribution that drove A. R. Wallace to favor islands

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