Community assembly in Nothobranchius annual fishes: nested patterns, environmental niche and biogeographic history

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68081766%3A_____%2F17%3A00472395" target="_blank" >RIV/68081766:_____/17:00472395 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2851" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2851</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2851" target="_blank" >10.1002/ece3.2851</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Community assembly in Nothobranchius annual fishes: nested patterns, environmental niche and biogeographic history

Original language description

The assembly of local communities from regional species pools is shaped by historical aspects of distribution, environmental conditions, and biotic interactions. We studied local community assembly patterns in African annual killifishes of the genus Nothobranchius (Cyprinodontiformes), investigating data from 168 communities across the entire range of regionally co-existing species. Nothobranchius are small fishes associated with annually desiccating pools. We detected a nested pattern of local communities in one region (Southern Mozambique, with Nothobranchius furzeri as the core and dominant species), but no nestedness was found in the second region (Central Mozambique, with Nothobranchius orthonotus being the dominant species). A checkerboard pattern of local Nothobranchius community assembly was demonstrated in both regions. Multivariate environmental niche modeling revealed moderate differences in environmental niche occupancy between three monophyletic clades that largely co-occurred geographically and greater differences between strictly allopatric species within the clades. Most variation among species was observed along an altitudinal gradient, N. furzeri and Nothobranchius kadleci were absent from coastal plains, Nothobranchius pienaari, Nothobranchius rachovii, and Nothobranchius krysanovi were associated with lower altitude and N. orthonotus was intermediate and geographically most widespread species. We discuss implications for ecological and evolutionary research in this taxon.

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

10618 - Ecology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-00291S" target="_blank" >GA16-00291S: Ageing in the wild: from demography to gene expression</a><br>

Continuities

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

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Ecology and Evolution

ISSN

2045-7758

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

2294-2306

UT code for WoS article

000399738700027

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85014897576