1. Phylogenetic structure of European forest vegetation
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Jens-Christian Svenning, Emiliano Agrillo, Adrian Indreica, Kiril Vassilev, Jonathan Lenoir, Gianmaria Bonari, Ilona Knollová, Mirjana Ćuk, Juan Antonio Campos, Željko Škvorc, Larisa Khanina, Wolfgang Willner, Remigiusz Pielech, Idoia Biurrun, Erwin Bergmeier, Andraž Čarni, Fabio Attorre, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Valerijus Rašomavičius, Zdeňka Lososová, Josep Padullés Cubino, Milan Chytrý, Michele De Sanctis, Czech Science Foundation, Villum Fonden, Eusko Jaurlaritza, Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés - UMR CNRS 7058 (EDYSAN), Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)
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0106 biological sciences ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,postglacial recolonization ,[SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes ,[SDV.BID]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity ,Glacial refugia ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Mediterranean Basin ,Vegetation-plot data ,phylogenetic relatedness ,Phylogenetic community structure ,Postglacial recolonization ,community assembly, environmental filtering, European forests, glacial refugia, phylogenetic community structure, phylogenetic relatedness, postglacial recolonization, vegetation-plot data ,Phylogenetics ,glacial refugia ,Clade ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,[SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment ,Ecology ,Hemiboreal ,Phylogenetic tree ,Community assembly ,phylogenetic community structure ,environmental filtering ,15. Life on land ,vegetation-plot data ,community assembly ,European forests ,Taxon ,Geography ,Spatial ecology ,Biological dispersal ,[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology ,Phylogenetic relatedness ,Environmental filtering - Abstract
[Aims] (a) To determine the contribution of current macro-environmental factors in explaining the phylogenetic structure of European forest vegetation, (b) to map and describe spatial patterns in their phylogenetic structure and (c) to examine which lineages are the most important contributors to phylogenetic clustering and whether their contribution varies across forest types and regions. [Location] Europe. [Taxon] Angiosperms. [Methods] We analysed the phylogenetic structure of 61,816 georeferenced forest vegetation plots across Europe considering alternative metrics either sensitive to basal (ancient evolutionary dynamics) or terminal (recent dynamics) branching in the phylogeny. We used boosted regression trees to model metrics of the phylogenetic structure as a function of current macro-environmental factors. We also identified clades encompassing significantly more taxa than under random expectation in phylogenetically clustered plots. [Results] Phylogenetic clustering was driven by climatic stress and instability and was strong in the areas glaciated during the Pleistocene, likely reflecting limited postglacial migration, and to a lower extent in areas of northern-central Europe and in summer-dry Mediterranean regions. Phylogenetic overdispersion was frequent in the hemiboreal zone in Russia, in some areas around the Mediterranean Basin, and along the Atlantic seaboard of the Iberian Peninsula. The families Ericaceae, Poaceae and Fagaceae were overrepresented in clustered plots in different regions of Europe. [Main conclusions] We provide the first maps and analyses on the phylogenetic structure of European forest vegetation at the plot level. Our results highlight the role of environmental filtering, postglacial dispersal limitation and spatial transitions between major biomes in determining the distribution of plant lineages in Europe., The study was supported by the Czech Science Foundation (19-28491X). IB and JAC were funded by the Basque Government (IT936-16). JCS considers this work a contribution to his VILLUM Investigator project “Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World” funded by VILLUM FONDEN (grant 16549).
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- 2021