TY - JOUR
T1 - Global patterns and determinants of lake macrophyte taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic beta diversity.
AU - Garcia-Giron, Jorge
AU - Heino, Jani
AU - Baastrup-Spohr, Lars
AU - Bove, Claudia P.
AU - Clayton, John
AU - de Winton, Mary
AU - Feldmann, Tonu
AU - Fernandez-Alaez, Margarita
AU - Ecke, Frauke
AU - Grillas, Patrick
AU - Hoyer, Mark V.
AU - Kolada, Agnieszka
AU - Kosten, Sarian
AU - Lukacs, Balazs A.
AU - Mjelde, Marit
AU - Mormul, Roger P.
AU - Rhazi, Laila
AU - Rhazi, Mouhssine
AU - Sass, Laura
AU - Xu, Jun
AU - Alahuhta, Janne
N1 - Funding Information:
JGG appreciates financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Industry [project METAPONDS, grant CGL2017-84176R ], the Junta de Castilla y León [grant LE004G18 ] and from the Fundación Biodiversidad (Spanish Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge). BAL was supported by National Research, Development and Innovation Fund [grant NKFIH, OTKA PD120775 ] and by the Bolyai János Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences . S.K. was supported by NWO Veni [grant 86312012 ]. Sampling of the coastal Brazilian lakes was financed by NWO [grant W84-549 ]; The National Geographic Society [grant 7864-5 ]; and CNPq [grants 480122 , 490409 , 311427 ]. We thank the SALGA team, especially Gissell Lacerot, Nestor Mazzeo, Vera Huszar, David da Motta Marques, and Erik Jeppesen for organizing and executing the SALGA field sampling campaign and Bruno Irgang† and Eduardo Alonso Paz for helping with identification. We thank Minnesota and Wisconsin Departments of Natural Resources for collecting the macrophyte data. We are grateful to Carol Reschke for her work in combining and performing quality control for the Minnesota macrophyte data used in the analysis. This is contribution no. 607 of the Natural Resources Research Inst. of the Univ. of Minnesota Duluth. Provision of New Zealand macrophyte data was possible via NIWA SSIF funding.
Funding Information:
JGG appreciates financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Industry [project METAPONDS, grant CGL2017-84176R], the Junta de Castilla y Le?n [grant LE004G18] and from the Fundaci?n Biodiversidad (Spanish Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge). BAL was supported by National Research, Development and Innovation Fund [grant NKFIH, OTKA PD120775] and by the Bolyai J?nos Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. S.K. was supported by NWO Veni [grant 86312012]. Sampling of the coastal Brazilian lakes was financed by NWO [grant W84-549]; The National Geographic Society [grant 7864-5]; and CNPq [grants 480122, 490409, 311427]. We thank the SALGA team, especially Gissell Lacerot, Nestor Mazzeo, Vera Huszar, David da Motta Marques, and Erik Jeppesen for organizing and executing the SALGA field sampling campaign and Bruno Irgang? and Eduardo Alonso Paz for helping with identification. We thank Minnesota and Wisconsin Departments of Natural Resources for collecting the macrophyte data. We are grateful to Carol Reschke for her work in combining and performing quality control for the Minnesota macrophyte data used in the analysis. This is contribution no. 607 of the Natural Resources Research Inst. of the Univ. of Minnesota Duluth. Provision of New Zealand macrophyte data was possible via NIWA SSIF funding. The data sets are from state or national administration, where they can be obtained by request. A key extract of the data set is available in Supporting Information Appendix S1.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2020/6/25
Y1 - 2020/6/25
N2 - Documenting the patterns of biological diversity on Earth has always been a central challenge in macroecology and biogeography. However, for the diverse group of freshwater plants, such research program is still in its infancy. Here, we examined global variation in taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic beta diversity patterns of lake macrophytes using regional data from six continents. A data set of ca. 480 lake macrophyte community observations, together with climatic, geographical and environmental variables, was compiled across 16 regions worldwide. We (a) built the very first phylogeny comprising most freshwater plant lineages; (b) exploited a wide array of functional traits that are important to macrophyte autoecology or that relate to lake ecosystem functioning; (c) assessed if different large-scale beta diversity patterns show a clear latitudinal gradient from the equator to the poles using null models; and (d) employed evolutionary and regression models to first identify the degree to which the studied functional traits show a phylogenetic signal, and then to estimate community-environment relationships at multiple spatial scales. Our results supported the notion that ecological niches evolved independently of phylogeny in macrophyte lineages worldwide. We also showed that taxonomic and phylogenetic beta diversity followed the typical global trend with higher diversity in the tropics. In addition, we were able to confirm that species, multi-trait and lineage compositions were first and foremost structured by climatic conditions at relatively broad spatial scales. Perhaps more importantly, we showed that large-scale processes along latitudinal and elevational gradients have left a strong footprint in the current diversity patterns and community-environment relationships in lake macrophytes. Overall, our results stress the need for an integrative approach to macroecology, biogeography and conservation biology, combining multiple diversity facets at different spatial scales.
AB - Documenting the patterns of biological diversity on Earth has always been a central challenge in macroecology and biogeography. However, for the diverse group of freshwater plants, such research program is still in its infancy. Here, we examined global variation in taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic beta diversity patterns of lake macrophytes using regional data from six continents. A data set of ca. 480 lake macrophyte community observations, together with climatic, geographical and environmental variables, was compiled across 16 regions worldwide. We (a) built the very first phylogeny comprising most freshwater plant lineages; (b) exploited a wide array of functional traits that are important to macrophyte autoecology or that relate to lake ecosystem functioning; (c) assessed if different large-scale beta diversity patterns show a clear latitudinal gradient from the equator to the poles using null models; and (d) employed evolutionary and regression models to first identify the degree to which the studied functional traits show a phylogenetic signal, and then to estimate community-environment relationships at multiple spatial scales. Our results supported the notion that ecological niches evolved independently of phylogeny in macrophyte lineages worldwide. We also showed that taxonomic and phylogenetic beta diversity followed the typical global trend with higher diversity in the tropics. In addition, we were able to confirm that species, multi-trait and lineage compositions were first and foremost structured by climatic conditions at relatively broad spatial scales. Perhaps more importantly, we showed that large-scale processes along latitudinal and elevational gradients have left a strong footprint in the current diversity patterns and community-environment relationships in lake macrophytes. Overall, our results stress the need for an integrative approach to macroecology, biogeography and conservation biology, combining multiple diversity facets at different spatial scales.
KW - INHS
KW - Elevation range
KW - Metacommunity ecology
KW - Aquatic plants
KW - Biogeography
KW - Trait diversity
KW - Latitude
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U2 - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138021
DO - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138021
M3 - Article
C2 - 32213415
VL - 723
SP - 138021
JO - Science of the Total Environment
JF - Science of the Total Environment
M1 - 138021
ER -