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DOI | 10.1111/gcb.15997 |
Survival of climate warming through niche shifts: Evidence from frogs on tropical islands | |
Jim Labisko; Nancy Bunbury; Richard A. Griffiths; Jim J. Groombridge; Lindsay Chong-Seng; Kay S. Bradfield; Jeffrey W. Streicher | |
2021-12-07 | |
发表期刊 | Global Change Biology |
出版年 | 2021 |
英文摘要 | How will organisms cope when forced into warmer-than-preferred thermal environments? This is a key question facing our ability to monitor and manage biota as average annual temperatures increase, and is of particular concern for range-limited terrestrial species unable to track their preferred climatic envelope. Being ectothermic, desiccation prone, and often spatially restricted, island-inhabiting tropical amphibians exemplify this scenario. Pre-Anthropocene case studies of how insular amphibian populations responded to the enforced occupation of warmer-than-ancestral habitats may add a valuable, but currently lacking, perspective. We studied a population of frogs from the Seychelles endemic family Sooglossidae which, due to historic sea-level rise, have been forced to occupy a significantly warmer island (Praslin) than their ancestors and close living relatives. Evidence from thermal activity patterns, bioacoustics, body size distributions, and ancestral state estimations suggest that this population shifted its thermal niche in response to restricted opportunities for elevational dispersal. Relative to conspecifics, Praslin sooglossids also have divergent nuclear genotypes and call characters, a finding consistent with adaptation causing speciation in a novel thermal environment. Using an evolutionary perspective, our study reveals that some tropical amphibians have survived episodes of historic warming without the aid of dispersal and therefore may have the capacity to adapt to the currently warming climate. However, two otherwise co-distributed sooglossid species are absent from Praslin, and the deep evolutionary divergence between the frogs on Praslin and their closest extant relatives (~8 million years) may have allowed for gradual thermal adaptation and speciation. Thus, local extinction is still a likely outcome for tropical frogs experiencing warming climates in the absence of dispersal corridors to thermal refugia. |
领域 | 气候变化 ; 资源环境 |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/343032 |
专题 | 气候变化 资源环境科学 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jim Labisko,Nancy Bunbury,Richard A. Griffiths,et al. Survival of climate warming through niche shifts: Evidence from frogs on tropical islands[J]. Global Change Biology,2021. |
APA | Jim Labisko.,Nancy Bunbury.,Richard A. Griffiths.,Jim J. Groombridge.,Lindsay Chong-Seng.,...&Jeffrey W. Streicher.(2021).Survival of climate warming through niche shifts: Evidence from frogs on tropical islands.Global Change Biology. |
MLA | Jim Labisko,et al."Survival of climate warming through niche shifts: Evidence from frogs on tropical islands".Global Change Biology (2021). |
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