Alpine travellers in the Carpathians: The story of two rock-dwelling snails told by genes and fossils

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/24:10489975

Result on the web

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jbi.14793" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jbi.14793</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14793" target="_blank" >10.1111/jbi.14793</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Alpine travellers in the Carpathians: The story of two rock-dwelling snails told by genes and fossils

Original language description

Aim: Various species distributed in the Alps have their disjunct occurrences in the Carpathians. Fossil evidence for some woodland snails of Alpine distribution suggests that they colonized the Carpathians during the Holocene forest optimum or later. Here, we focus on disjunct Carpathian populations of the rock-dwelling alpine snail Pyramidula saxatilis. As it occupies very stable habitats, that is, high-elevation limestone rocks, one can assume its potential survival in Carpathian refugia over the glacial period(s). For comparison, the more widespread and warm-climate P. pusilla is analysed. Location: Europe. Taxon: Pyramidula saxatilis and P. pusilla. Methods: We analysed the genetic diversity of P. saxatilis and P. pusilla populations across their entire ranges using mitochondrial DNA and nuclear DNA markers. Seven fossil mollusc successions from the area where P. saxatilis occurs in the Carpathians were analysed and dated using the radiocarbon method. Habitat suitability models of both species were calculated for selected time periods since the Last Glacial Maximum. Results: All Carpathian P. saxatilis populations were genetically homogeneous and similar to those from the Eastern Alps. In P. pusilla, we found a genetically distinct lineage in the southern Western Carpathians. Both species were found in three fossil profiles since the Middle Holocene, and in one already in the Late Glacial. Habitat suitability models suggested the fluctuations of suitable conditions in the Carpathians driven by summer precipitation, especially for P. saxatilis. Main Conclusions: Our results suggest that the Carpathian populations of P. saxatilis represent a post-LGM colonization from the Eastern Alps triggered by climatic changes, mainly by the increase in summer precipitation during the Late Glacial interstadials and Middle Holocene. The evidence for P. pusilla is similar, but also suggests rare long-term survival in the Carpathian microrefugia. The palaeoecological evidence indicates a possible threat to high-elevation species from future fluctuations in precipitation regimes.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10510 - Climatic research

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA23-05132S" target="_blank" >GA23-05132S: New calibration and indicator systems for reconstruction of Holocene climate controlled for local habitat development</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Biogeography

ISSN

0305-0270

e-ISSN

1365-2699

Volume of the periodical

51

Issue of the periodical within the volume

9

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

1693-1708

UT code for WoS article

001137978600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85181248548