Tempo and drivers of plant diversification in the European mountain system
Smyčka, Jan (Charles University. Department of Botany)
Roquet, Cristina (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Biologia Animal, de Biologia Vegetal i d'Ecologia)
Boleda, Martí (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Alberti, Adriana (Université Paris-Saclay. Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell)
Boyer, Frédéric (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Douzet, Rolland (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Perrier, Christophe (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Rome, Maxime (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Valay, Jean-Gabriel (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Denoeud, France (Université Paris-Saclay)
Šemberová, Kristýna (Czech Academy of Sciences. Institute of Botany)
Zimmermann, Niklaus E. (Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL)
Thuiller, Wilfried (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Wincker, Patrick (Université Evry)
Alsos, Inger Greve (The Arctic University of Norway)
Coissac, Eric (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Lavergne, Sébastien (Université Grenoble Alpes)

Date:	2022
Abstract:	There is still limited consensus on the evolutionary history of species-rich temperate alpine floras due to a lack of comparable and high-quality phylogenetic data covering multiple plant lineages. Here we reconstructed when and how European alpine plant lineages diversified, i. e. , the tempo and drivers of speciation events. We performed full-plastome phylogenomics and used multi-clade comparative models applied to six representative angiosperm lineages that have diversified in European mountains (212 sampled species, 251 ingroup species total). Diversification rates remained surprisingly steady for most clades, even during the Pleistocene, with speciation events being mostly driven by geographic divergence and bedrock shifts. Interestingly, we inferred asymmetrical historical migration rates from siliceous to calcareous bedrocks, and from higher to lower elevations, likely due to repeated shrinkage and expansion of high elevation habitats during the Pleistocene. This may have buffered climate-related extinctions, but prevented speciation along elevation gradients as often documented for tropical alpine floras.
Grants:	European Commission 281422
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Biogeography ; Phylogenetics ; Speciation
Published in:	Nature communications, Vol. 13 (May 2022) , art. 2750, ISSN 2041-1723

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30394-5
PMID: 35585056

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