Metacommunity phylogenetics: separating the roles of environmental filters and historical biogeography

Ecology Letters (2010) Biogeographical, evolutionary and ecological processes interact to regulate patterns in metacommunities. However, as there are few quantitative methods for evaluating their joint effects, resolving this interaction is difficult. We develop a method that aims to evaluate the in...

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Published in:Ecology letters 2010-10, Vol.13 (10), p.1290-1299
Main Authors: Leibold, Mathew A, Economo, Evan P, Peres-Neto, Pedro
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animal and plant ecology
Animal, plant and microbial ecology
Animals
Aqueous chemistry
Biodiversity
Biogeography
Biological and medical sciences
Calanoida
community phylogeny
Copepoda
Copepoda - genetics
Copepoda - physiology
Crustacea
Daphniidae
Ecology
Evolutionary biology
Fresh Water
Freshwater
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
General aspects
Genetics
Geography
historical biogeography
Invertebrates
metacommunity
Models, Biological
New England
Phylogeny
Population Density
Population Dynamics
variation decomposition
zooplankton
Zooplankton - genetics
Zooplankton - physiology
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Summary:Ecology Letters (2010) Biogeographical, evolutionary and ecological processes interact to regulate patterns in metacommunities. However, as there are few quantitative methods for evaluating their joint effects, resolving this interaction is difficult. We develop a method that aims to evaluate the interaction between phylogenetic structure, historical biogeographic events and environmental filtering in driving species distributions in a large-scale metacommunity. Using freshwater zooplankton as a case study, we contrast the phylogenetic metacommunity structure of calanoid copepods and an ecologically similar but more vagile group, daphniids, in the northeastern US. We find that legacies of historical biogeographical events have strongly constrained calanoid distributions within this area, but that adaptation to different water chemistry and lake morphology drives the metacommunity structure of daphniids. Our findings show that biogeographic history and metacommunity processes jointly regulate community structure in these lakes and suggest that this also depends on factors that affect the colonization rate of different types of organisms.
ISSN:1461-023X
1461-0248
DOI:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01523.x