Effects of species traits on the genetic diversity of high-mountain plants: a multi-species study across the Alps and the Carpathians
International audience To test the influence of various species traits, elevation and phylogeographical history on the genetic diversity of high-mountain plants in the Alps and Carpathians. The regular sampling grid comprised the whole range of the European Alps and the Carpathians. Twenty-two high-...
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AFLPs alpine plants Alps Carpathians elevation genetic diversity Nei's gene diversity phylogeographical history Quaternary glaciations range-wide sampling grid Life-history traits glacial refugia ice ages saxifraga-oppositifolia population-size alpine differentiation campanulaceae consequences conservation [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes [SDV.BID]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity [SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology environment Thiel-Egenter, C. Gugerli, F. Alvarez, N. Brodbeck, S. Cieslak, E. Colli, L. Englisch, T. Gaudeul, M. Gielly, L. Korbecka, G. Negrini, R. Paun, O. Pellecchia, M. Rioux, D. Ronikier, M. Schonswetter, P. Schupfer, F. Taberlet, P. Tribsch, A. van Loo, M. Winkler, M. Holderegger, R. Effects of species traits on the genetic diversity of high-mountain plants: a multi-species study across the Alps and the Carpathians |
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International audience To test the influence of various species traits, elevation and phylogeographical history on the genetic diversity of high-mountain plants in the Alps and Carpathians. The regular sampling grid comprised the whole range of the European Alps and the Carpathians. Twenty-two high-mountain plant species were exhaustively sampled and their genetic diversity was assessed with amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs). ANOVAs were used to check for relationships between species traits and species genetic diversity, and to test whether genetic diversity was influenced by altitude and phylogeographical history (i.e. Alps versus Carpathians). In both mountain systems, species dispersed and pollinated by wind showed higher genetic diversity than species with self or insect pollination, and with animal- or gravity-dispersed seeds. Only in the Alps did altitudinal range size affect species genetic diversity significantly: species with narrow altitudinal ranges in the highest vegetation belts had significantly higher genetic diversity than those expanding over wide altitudinal ranges. Genetic diversity was species specific and significantly higher in the Alps than in the Carpathians, but it was not influenced by elevation. Wind pollination and wind dispersal seem to foster high genetic diversity. However, species traits are often associated and their effects on genetic diversity cannot be clearly disentangled. As genetic diversity is species specific, comparisons across species need to be interpreted with care. Genetic diversity was generally lower in the Carpathians than in the Alps, due to higher topographical isolation of alpine habitats in the Carpathians and this mountain massif's divergent phylogeographical history. Elevation did not influence genetic diversity, challenging the long-held view of decreasing genetic diversity with increasing elevation in mountain plants. |
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WSL Swiss Federal Research Institute SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL Laboratoire de Botanique Evolutive Universite de Neuchdtel Institute of Botany Polska Akademia Nauk = Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) Istituto di Zootecnica Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore Piacenza e Cremona (Unicatt) Department of Biogeography University of Vienna Vienna Département Systématique et Évolution Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN) Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine (LECA) Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany Department of Organismic Biology/Ecology and Diversity of Plants Universität Salzburg |
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Thiel-Egenter, C. Gugerli, F. Alvarez, N. Brodbeck, S. Cieslak, E. Colli, L. Englisch, T. Gaudeul, M. Gielly, L. Korbecka, G. Negrini, R. Paun, O. Pellecchia, M. Rioux, D. Ronikier, M. Schonswetter, P. Schupfer, F. Taberlet, P. Tribsch, A. van Loo, M. Winkler, M. Holderegger, R. |
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Effects of species traits on the genetic diversity of high-mountain plants: a multi-species study across the Alps and the Carpathians |
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Effects of species traits on the genetic diversity of high-mountain plants: a multi-species study across the Alps and the Carpathians |
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Effects of species traits on the genetic diversity of high-mountain plants: a multi-species study across the Alps and the Carpathians |
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Effects of species traits on the genetic diversity of high-mountain plants: a multi-species study across the Alps and the Carpathians |
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Effects of species traits on the genetic diversity of high-mountain plants: a multi-species study across the Alps and the Carpathians |
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effects of species traits on the genetic diversity of high-mountain plants: a multi-species study across the alps and the carpathians |
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ftunivnantes:oai:HAL:halsde-00378002v1 2023-05-15T18:15:15+02:00 Effects of species traits on the genetic diversity of high-mountain plants: a multi-species study across the Alps and the Carpathians Thiel-Egenter, C. Gugerli, F. Alvarez, N. Brodbeck, S. Cieslak, E. Colli, L. Englisch, T. Gaudeul, M. Gielly, L. Korbecka, G. Negrini, R. Paun, O. Pellecchia, M. Rioux, D. Ronikier, M. Schonswetter, P. Schupfer, F. Taberlet, P. Tribsch, A. van Loo, M. Winkler, M. Holderegger, R. WSL Swiss Federal Research Institute SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL Laboratoire de Botanique Evolutive Universite de Neuchdtel Institute of Botany Polska Akademia Nauk = Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) Istituto di Zootecnica Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore Piacenza e Cremona (Unicatt) Department of Biogeography University of Vienna Vienna Département Systématique et Évolution Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN) Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine (LECA) Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany Department of Organismic Biology/Ecology and Diversity of Plants Universität Salzburg 2009 https://hal.science/halsde-00378002 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2008.00421.x en eng HAL CCSD Wiley info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2008.00421.x halsde-00378002 https://hal.science/halsde-00378002 doi:10.1111/j.1466-8238.2008.00421.x ISSN: 1466-822X EISSN: 1466-822X Global Ecology and Biogeography https://hal.science/halsde-00378002 Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2009, 18 (1), pp.78-87. ⟨10.1111/j.1466-8238.2008.00421.x⟩ AFLPs alpine plants Alps Carpathians elevation genetic diversity Nei's gene diversity phylogeographical history Quaternary glaciations range-wide sampling grid Life-history traits glacial refugia ice ages saxifraga-oppositifolia population-size alpine differentiation campanulaceae consequences conservation [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes [SDV.BID]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity [SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology environment info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2009 ftunivnantes https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2008.00421.x 2023-02-08T02:26:56Z International audience To test the influence of various species traits, elevation and phylogeographical history on the genetic diversity of high-mountain plants in the Alps and Carpathians. The regular sampling grid comprised the whole range of the European Alps and the Carpathians. Twenty-two high-mountain plant species were exhaustively sampled and their genetic diversity was assessed with amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs). ANOVAs were used to check for relationships between species traits and species genetic diversity, and to test whether genetic diversity was influenced by altitude and phylogeographical history (i.e. Alps versus Carpathians). In both mountain systems, species dispersed and pollinated by wind showed higher genetic diversity than species with self or insect pollination, and with animal- or gravity-dispersed seeds. Only in the Alps did altitudinal range size affect species genetic diversity significantly: species with narrow altitudinal ranges in the highest vegetation belts had significantly higher genetic diversity than those expanding over wide altitudinal ranges. Genetic diversity was species specific and significantly higher in the Alps than in the Carpathians, but it was not influenced by elevation. Wind pollination and wind dispersal seem to foster high genetic diversity. However, species traits are often associated and their effects on genetic diversity cannot be clearly disentangled. As genetic diversity is species specific, comparisons across species need to be interpreted with care. Genetic diversity was generally lower in the Carpathians than in the Alps, due to higher topographical isolation of alpine habitats in the Carpathians and this mountain massif's divergent phylogeographical history. Elevation did not influence genetic diversity, challenging the long-held view of decreasing genetic diversity with increasing elevation in mountain plants. Article in Journal/Newspaper Saxifraga oppositifolia Université de Nantes: HAL-UNIV-NANTES Global Ecology and Biogeography 18 1 78 87 |