Resistance or emigration? Response of alpine plants to the ice ages
Abstract There is a long‐standing debate about the fate of the mountain flora of the European Alps during the Pleistocene ice ages. Two main scenarios of glacial survival of alpine plant taxa have been discussed, namely (1) total extinction within glaciated areas, survival in peripheral refugia, and...
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crwiley:10.2307/3647448 2024-06-23T07:50:50+00:00 Resistance or emigration? Response of alpine plants to the ice ages Stehlik, Ivana 2003 http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3647448 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.2307%2F3647448 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.2307/3647448 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor TAXON volume 52, issue 3, page 499-510 ISSN 0040-0262 1996-8175 journal-article 2003 crwiley https://doi.org/10.2307/3647448 2024-05-31T08:15:02Z Abstract There is a long‐standing debate about the fate of the mountain flora of the European Alps during the Pleistocene ice ages. Two main scenarios of glacial survival of alpine plant taxa have been discussed, namely (1) total extinction within glaciated areas, survival in peripheral refugia, and postglacial re‐immigration into vacant areas ( tabula rasa hypothesis), and (2) long‐term in situ survival within glaciated regions in isolated ice‐free areas above the ice‐shield (nunatak hypothesis). Four alpine species with differing distributions and ecological demands were investigated to elucidate their glacial history using molecular methods (AFLPs, RFLPs of cpDNA, RAPDs). Their glacial histories are very diverse. Whereas in situ survival in the most intensely glaciated Central Alps played an important role in Eritrichium nanum , the low alpine Erinus alpinus survived in situ on some mountains of the northern Swiss Prealps, and Rumex nivalis grows at intermediate alpine elevations in snow‐beds in both the northern and the Central Swiss Alps. In the common arctic‐alpine Saxifraga oppositifolia , the species with the widest distribution and ecological amplitude as compared to the other three species, it is not possible to reconstruct its glacial history. It is probable, therefore, that in the Alps, as in northern Europe, resident genotypes surviving glaciation in situ were integrated into the gene pool of postglacially immigrating periglacial individuals. The size of refugia differed according to species and region. On the one hand, refugia were restricted to individual mountains ( E. alpinus, R. nivalis ). On the other hand, they spanned several mountain ranges in larger areas ( E. nanum, E. alpinus ). Postglacial migration over longer distances was inferred for E. alpinus from southern France to northern Switzerland, and, over shorter distances, for R. nivalis from the northern Prealps into the Central Alps in Switzerland. Both postglacial immigration and in situ survival shaped the phylogeography at least of ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Saxifraga oppositifolia Wiley Online Library Arctic Shield Nunatak ENVELOPE(164.500,164.500,-74.550,-74.550) TAXON 52 3 499 510 |
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Abstract There is a long‐standing debate about the fate of the mountain flora of the European Alps during the Pleistocene ice ages. Two main scenarios of glacial survival of alpine plant taxa have been discussed, namely (1) total extinction within glaciated areas, survival in peripheral refugia, and postglacial re‐immigration into vacant areas ( tabula rasa hypothesis), and (2) long‐term in situ survival within glaciated regions in isolated ice‐free areas above the ice‐shield (nunatak hypothesis). Four alpine species with differing distributions and ecological demands were investigated to elucidate their glacial history using molecular methods (AFLPs, RFLPs of cpDNA, RAPDs). Their glacial histories are very diverse. Whereas in situ survival in the most intensely glaciated Central Alps played an important role in Eritrichium nanum , the low alpine Erinus alpinus survived in situ on some mountains of the northern Swiss Prealps, and Rumex nivalis grows at intermediate alpine elevations in snow‐beds in both the northern and the Central Swiss Alps. In the common arctic‐alpine Saxifraga oppositifolia , the species with the widest distribution and ecological amplitude as compared to the other three species, it is not possible to reconstruct its glacial history. It is probable, therefore, that in the Alps, as in northern Europe, resident genotypes surviving glaciation in situ were integrated into the gene pool of postglacially immigrating periglacial individuals. The size of refugia differed according to species and region. On the one hand, refugia were restricted to individual mountains ( E. alpinus, R. nivalis ). On the other hand, they spanned several mountain ranges in larger areas ( E. nanum, E. alpinus ). Postglacial migration over longer distances was inferred for E. alpinus from southern France to northern Switzerland, and, over shorter distances, for R. nivalis from the northern Prealps into the Central Alps in Switzerland. Both postglacial immigration and in situ survival shaped the phylogeography at least of ... |
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Resistance or emigration? Response of alpine plants to the ice ages |
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Resistance or emigration? Response of alpine plants to the ice ages |
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Resistance or emigration? Response of alpine plants to the ice ages |
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