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Prolonged isolation and persistence of a common endemic on granite outcrops in both mesic and semi-arid environments in south-western Australia
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- UK : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
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Abstract
- Aim Granite outcrops may be able to act as refugia for species during adverse climate change, owing to their topographic complexity. We assessed this hypothesis by examining phylogeographical patterns in a common, geographically widespread granite endemic, Stypandra glauca (Hemerocallidaceae). Location Granite outcrops of the Southwest Australian Floristic Region, Western Australia. Main conclusions The levels of divergence and low diversity revealed in S. glauca support a scenario of prolonged isolation and persistence on granite outcrops may result from the maintenance of a larger effective population size in southern regions, which retained more mesic climates during drier glacial periods. Although the climatic conditions differ between outcrops in this study, our results indicate that outcrops in both regions have harboured S. glauca throughout climatic changes, accentuating the value of these habitats to biodiversity conservation under future changing climate. Methods Twenty-four tetraploid individuals of the granite endemic Stypandraglauca were sampled from each of 12 granite outcrops: 7 from a mesic environment and 5 from the semi-arid region. Phylogenetic reconstruction and divergence-dating was achieved using Bayesian and parsimony analyses of chloroplast haplotypes from 90 individuals. Nuclear diversity and population differentiation were analysed across all individuals using 10 microsatellite loci. Results Stypandra glauca exhibited high (chloroplast) or moderate (nuclear)levels of divergence among, and low diversity within, outcrops. Haplotype diversity was high in both sampling regions, and each haplotype was unique to one outcrop. There was little correlation between geographical and genetic distance.Both nuclear and chloroplast diversity were higher in southern (mesic)outcrops than in northern (semi-arid) outcrops, although the level of chloroplast divergence among outcrops was similar for both climatic regions. Refereed/Peer-reviewed
- Subjects :
- geoecology
Ecology
Stypandra glauca
biology
nuclear diversity
Outcrop
Population size
fungi
Biodiversity
Climate change
Western Australia
chloroplast divergence
phylogeography
biology.organism_classification
Pleistocene refugia
Arid
Phylogeography
Stypandra glaauca
edaphic endemism
Persistence (discontinuity)
evolutionary history
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....74808f2e8028f84481cdd5a6bbdfca91