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Species versus within-species niches: a multi-modelling approach to assess range size of a spring-dwelling amphibian
Species Distribution Models (SDMs) can be used to estimate potential geographic ranges and derive indices to assess species conservation status. However, habitat-specialist species require fine-scale range estimates that reflect resource dependency. Furthermore, local adaptation of intraspecific lin...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7804274/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33436694 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79783-0 |
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author | Goudarzi, Forough Hemami, Mahmoud-Reza Malekian, Mansoureh Fakheran, Sima Martínez-Freiría, Fernando |
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description | Species Distribution Models (SDMs) can be used to estimate potential geographic ranges and derive indices to assess species conservation status. However, habitat-specialist species require fine-scale range estimates that reflect resource dependency. Furthermore, local adaptation of intraspecific lineages to distinct environmental conditions across ranges have frequently been neglected in SDMs. Here, we propose a multi-stage SDM approach to estimate the distributional range and potential area of occupancy (pAOO) of Neurergus kaiseri, a spring-dwelling amphibian with two climatically-divergent evolutionary lineages. We integrate both broad-scale climatic variables and fine-resolution environmental data to predict the species distribution while examining the performance of lineage-level versus species-level modelling on the estimated pAOO. Predictions of habitat suitability at the landscape scale differed considerably between evolutionary level models. At the landscape scale, spatial predictions derived from lineage-level models showed low overlap and recognised a larger amount of suitable habitats than species-level model. The variable dependency of lineages was different at the landscape scale, but similar at the local scale. Our results highlight the importance of considering fine-scale resolution approaches, as well as intraspecific genetic structure of taxa to estimate pAOO. The flexible procedure presented here can be used as a guideline for estimating pAOO of other similar species. |
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spelling | pubmed-78042742021-01-13 Species versus within-species niches: a multi-modelling approach to assess range size of a spring-dwelling amphibian Goudarzi, Forough Hemami, Mahmoud-Reza Malekian, Mansoureh Fakheran, Sima Martínez-Freiría, Fernando Sci Rep Article Species Distribution Models (SDMs) can be used to estimate potential geographic ranges and derive indices to assess species conservation status. However, habitat-specialist species require fine-scale range estimates that reflect resource dependency. Furthermore, local adaptation of intraspecific lineages to distinct environmental conditions across ranges have frequently been neglected in SDMs. Here, we propose a multi-stage SDM approach to estimate the distributional range and potential area of occupancy (pAOO) of Neurergus kaiseri, a spring-dwelling amphibian with two climatically-divergent evolutionary lineages. We integrate both broad-scale climatic variables and fine-resolution environmental data to predict the species distribution while examining the performance of lineage-level versus species-level modelling on the estimated pAOO. Predictions of habitat suitability at the landscape scale differed considerably between evolutionary level models. At the landscape scale, spatial predictions derived from lineage-level models showed low overlap and recognised a larger amount of suitable habitats than species-level model. The variable dependency of lineages was different at the landscape scale, but similar at the local scale. Our results highlight the importance of considering fine-scale resolution approaches, as well as intraspecific genetic structure of taxa to estimate pAOO. The flexible procedure presented here can be used as a guideline for estimating pAOO of other similar species. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-01-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7804274/ /pubmed/33436694 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79783-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Goudarzi, Forough Hemami, Mahmoud-Reza Malekian, Mansoureh Fakheran, Sima Martínez-Freiría, Fernando Species versus within-species niches: a multi-modelling approach to assess range size of a spring-dwelling amphibian |
title | Species versus within-species niches: a multi-modelling approach to assess range size of a spring-dwelling amphibian |
title_full | Species versus within-species niches: a multi-modelling approach to assess range size of a spring-dwelling amphibian |
title_fullStr | Species versus within-species niches: a multi-modelling approach to assess range size of a spring-dwelling amphibian |
title_full_unstemmed | Species versus within-species niches: a multi-modelling approach to assess range size of a spring-dwelling amphibian |
title_short | Species versus within-species niches: a multi-modelling approach to assess range size of a spring-dwelling amphibian |
title_sort | species versus within-species niches: a multi-modelling approach to assess range size of a spring-dwelling amphibian |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7804274/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33436694 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79783-0 |
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