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- Title
The formation of avian montane diversity across barriers and along elevational gradients.
- Authors
Pujolar, José Martín; Blom, Mozes P. K.; Reeve, Andrew Hart; Kennedy, Jonathan D.; Marki, Petter Zahl; Korneliussen, Thorfinn S.; Freeman, Benjamin G.; Sam, Katerina; Linck, Ethan; Haryoko, Tri; Iova, Bulisa; Koane, Bonny; Maiah, Gibson; Paul, Luda; Irestedt, Martin; Jønsson, Knud Andreas
- Abstract
Tropical mountains harbor exceptional concentrations of Earth's biodiversity. In topographically complex landscapes, montane species typically inhabit multiple mountainous regions, but are absent in intervening lowland environments. Here we report a comparative analysis of genome-wide DNA polymorphism data for population pairs from eighteen Indo-Pacific bird species from the Moluccan islands of Buru and Seram and from across the island of New Guinea. We test how barrier strength and relative elevational distribution predict population differentiation, rates of historical gene flow, and changes in effective population sizes through time. We find population differentiation to be consistently and positively correlated with barrier strength and a species' altitudinal floor. Additionally, we find that Pleistocene climate oscillations have had a dramatic influence on the demographics of all species but were most pronounced in regions of smaller geographic area. Surprisingly, even the most divergent taxon pairs at the highest elevations experience gene flow across barriers, implying that dispersal between montane regions is important for the formation of montane assemblages. Islands and mountaintops are often considered evolutionary dead ends. Using whole genomic data of 18 bird species and demographic models, the authors show that populations become isolated at high elevations, but disjunct montane populations maintain gene flow and thus the capacity for further colonisation.
- Subjects
NEW Guinea (Island); GENE flow; BIRD populations; POPULATION differentiation; DNA analysis; COLONIZATION (Ecology); PLEISTOCENE Epoch; ALTITUDES
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2022, Vol 13, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-021-27858-5