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標題: | Marine latitudinal diversity gradients, niche conservatism and out of the tropics and Arctic: Climatic sensitivity of small organisms | 作者: | Chiu, W.-T.R. Yasuhara, M. Cronin, T.M. Hunt, G. Gemery, L. CHIH-LIN WEI |
公開日期: | 2020 | 卷: | 47 | 期: | 4 | 起(迄)頁: | 817-828 | 來源出版物: | Journal of Biogeography | 摘要: | Aim: The latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) is a consequence of evolutionary and ecological mechanisms acting over long history, and thus is best investigated with organisms that have rich fossil records. However, combined neontological-palaeontological investigations are mostly limited to large, shelled invertebrates, which keeps our mechanistic understanding of LDGs in its infancy. This paper aims to describe the modern meiobenthic ostracod LDG and to explore the possible controlling factors and the evolutionary mechanisms of this large-scale biodiversity pattern. Location: Present-day Western North Atlantic. Taxon: Ostracoda. Methods: We compiled ostracod census data from shallow-marine environments of the western North Atlantic Ocean. Using these data, we documented the marine LDG with multiple metrics of alpha, beta (nestedness and turnover) and gamma diversity, and we tested whether macroecological patterns could be governed by different environmental factors, including temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, pH and primary productivity. We also explored the geologic age distribution of ostracod genera to investigate the evolutionary mechanisms underpinning the LDG. Results: Our results show that temperature and climatic niche conservatism are important in setting LDGs of these small, poorly dispersing organisms. We also found evidence for some dispersal-driven spatial dynamics in the ostracod LDG. Compared to patterns observed in marine bivalves, however, dispersal dynamics were weaker and they were bi-directional, rather than following the ‘out-of-the-tropics’ model. Main conclusions: Our detailed analyses revealed that meiobenthic organisms, which comprise two-thirds of marine diversity, do not always follow the same rules as larger, better-studied organisms. Our findings suggest that the understudied majority of biodiversity may be more sensitive to climate than well-studied, large organisms. This implies that the impacts of ongoing Anthropocene climatic change on marine ecosystems may be much more serious than presently thought. © 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd |
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DOI: | 10.1111/jbi.13793 | SDG/關鍵字: | age structure; Anthropocene; benthos; biodiversity; climate change; conservation management; dispersal; latitudinal gradient; macroecology; marine environment; niche; ostracod; sensitivity analysis; species diversity; temperature effect; tropical environment; Arctic; Atlantic Ocean; Atlantic Ocean (North); Bivalvia; Invertebrata; Ostracoda |
顯示於: | 海洋研究所 |
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