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Climatic niche divergence or conservatism? Environmental niches and range limits in ecologically similar damselflies

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

The factors that determine species' range limits are of central interest to biologists. One particularly interesting group comprises odonates (dragonflies and damselflies), which show large differences in secondary sexual traits and respond quickly to climatic factors, but often have minor interspecific niche differences, challenging models of niche-based species coexistence. We quantified the environmental niches at two geographic scales to understand the ecological causes of northern range limits and the coexistence of two congeneric damselflies (Calopteryx splendens and C. virgo). Using environmental niche modeling, we quantified niche divergence first across the whole geographic range in Fennoscandia, and second only in the sympatric part of this range. We found evidence for interspecific divergence along the environmental axes of temperature and precipitation across the northern range in Fennoscandia, suggesting that adaptation to colder and wetter climate might have allowed C. virgo to expand farther north than C. splendens. However, in the sympatric zone in southern Fennoscandia we found only negligible and nonsignificant niche differences. Minor niche differences in sympatry lead to frequent encounters and intense interspecific sexual interactions at the local scale of populations. Nevertheless, niche differences across Fennoscandia suggest that species differences in physiological tolerances limit range expansions northward, and that current and future climate could have large effects on the distributional ranges of these and ecologically similar insects.

Publiceringsår

2012

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

1353-1366

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Ecology

Volym

93

Issue

6

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Ecological Society of America

Ämne

  • Biological Sciences

Nyckelord

  • biogeography
  • Calopteryx splendens
  • Calopteryx virgo
  • climate
  • ecological speciation
  • ectotherms
  • niche divergence
  • nonecological
  • speciation
  • sexual selection
  • thermal adaptation

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Molecular Ecology and Evolution Lab
  • Evolution and Ecology of Phenotypes in Nature

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0012-9658