Suzette G. A. Flantua
Snapshot isolation and isolation history challenge the analogy between mountains and islands used to understand endemism
Flantua, Suzette G. A.; Payne, Davnah; Borregaard, Michael K.; Beierkuhnlein, Carl; Steinbauer, Manuel J.; Dullinger, Stefan; Essl, Franz; Irl, Severin D. H.; Kienle, David; Kreft, Holger; Lenzner, Bernd; Norder, Sietze J.; Rijsdijk, Kenneth F.; Rumpf, Sabine B.; Weigelt, Patrick; Field, Richard
Authors
Davnah Payne
Michael K. Borregaard
Carl Beierkuhnlein
Manuel J. Steinbauer
Stefan Dullinger
Franz Essl
Severin D. H. Irl
David Kienle
Holger Kreft
Bernd Lenzner
Sietze J. Norder
Kenneth F. Rijsdijk
Sabine B. Rumpf
Patrick Weigelt
Dr RICHARD FIELD RICHARD.FIELD@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Biodiversity Science
Contributors
David Storch
Editor
Abstract
© 2020 The Authors. Global Ecology and Biogeography published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aim: Mountains and islands are both well known for their high endemism. To explain this similarity, parallels have been drawn between the insularity of “true islands” (land surrounded by water) and the isolation of habitats within mountains (so-called “mountain islands”). However, parallels rarely go much beyond the observation that mountaintops are isolated from one another, as are true islands. Here, we challenge the analogy between mountains and true islands by re-evaluating the literature, focusing on isolation (the prime mechanism underlying species endemism by restricting gene flow) from a dynamic perspective over space and time. Framework: We base our conceptualization of “isolation” on the arguments that no biological system is completely isolated; instead, isolation has multiple spatial and temporal dimensions relating to biological and environmental processes. We distinguish four key dimensions of isolation: (a) environmental difference from surroundings; (b) geographical distance to equivalent environment [points (a) and (b) are combined as “snapshot isolation”]; (c) continuity of isolation in space and time; and (d) total time over which isolation has been present [points (c) and (d) are combined as “isolation history”]. We evaluate the importance of each dimension in different types of mountains and true islands, demonstrating that substantial differences exist in the nature of isolation between and within each type. In particular, different types differ in their initial isolation and in the dynamic trajectories they follow, with distinct phases of varying isolation that interact with species traits over time to form present-day patterns of endemism. Conclusions: Our spatio-temporal definition of isolation suggests that the analogy between true islands and mountain islands masks important variation of isolation over long time-scales. Our understanding of endemism in isolated systems can be greatly enriched if the dynamic spatio-temporal dimensions of isolation enter models as explanatory variables and if these models account for the trajectories of the history of a system.
Citation
Flantua, S. G. A., Payne, D., Borregaard, M. K., Beierkuhnlein, C., Steinbauer, M. J., Dullinger, S., …Field, R. (2020). Snapshot isolation and isolation history challenge the analogy between mountains and islands used to understand endemism. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29(10), 1651-1673. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13155
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jun 16, 2020 |
Online Publication Date | Aug 4, 2020 |
Publication Date | 2020-10 |
Deposit Date | Aug 21, 2020 |
Publicly Available Date | Aug 24, 2020 |
Journal | Global Ecology and Biogeography |
Print ISSN | 1466-822X |
Electronic ISSN | 1466-8238 |
Publisher | Wiley |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 29 |
Issue | 10 |
Pages | 1651-1673 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13155 |
Keywords | Ecology; Global and Planetary Change; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4816628 |
Publisher URL | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/geb.13155 |
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