Niche overlap and divergence times support niche conservatism in eastern Asia–eastern North America disjunct plants

Xue Yin; Scott Jarvie; Wen Yong Guo; Tao Deng; Lingfeng Mao; Minhua Zhang; Chengjin Chu; Hong Qian; Jens Christian Svenning; Fangliang He

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Niche overlap and divergence times support niche conservatism in eastern Asia–eastern North America disjunct plants

Xue Yin, Scott Jarvie, Wen Yong Guo, Tao Deng, Lingfeng Mao, Minhua Zhang, Chengjin Chu^*, Hong Qian, Jens Christian Svenning, Fangliang He

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Aim: The plant species sharing ancestors now disjunctly distributed in eastern Asia (EAS) and eastern North America (ENA) have long been a biogeographic puzzle. Species within the EAS–ENA disjunct genera are presumed to exhibit niche conservatism, the tendency of closely related species to be more ecologically similar, reflecting lineages’ common evolutionary history. However, the hypothesis has not been well examined at the species level. Location: EAS and ENA. Time period: Current. Major taxa studied: Species within the EAS–ENA disjunct genera. Methods: We compiled data on climate, species occurrence, growth form, and phylogeny to examine niche conservatism. We first built a phylogenetic tree to select intercontinental congeneric pairwise species and obtained their divergence times. We then quantified the observed niche overlaps with Schoener’s D, which has a 0–1 range, based on species occurrence and climate of species’ native ranges. To obtain projected distributions, each species’ niche was projected to the non-native region using ensemble ecological niche models. Projected-related niche overlaps were then calculated using projected distributions and the corresponding climatic conditions. Results: Average observed niche overlaps of congeneric pairwise species were relatively small:.124,.211 and.109 for all, herbaceous and woody species, respectively. Both observed and projected-related niche overlaps had significant negative relationships with divergence times of intercontinental congeneric pairwise species, with niche overlap for herbaceous species being higher than that for woody plants when controlling for divergence times. Main conclusions: We conclude that the significant negative relationships between niche overlap and divergence times of congeneric pairwise species confirm niche conservatism among species of EAS–ENA disjunct plants and that the extent of niche conservatism is slightly different for herbaceous and woody plants. These findings suggest the potential role of allopatric speciation in EAS, and could help to understand the evolutionary history and the Asian-bias diversity pattern of the EAS–ENA disjunct plants.

Original language	English
Journal	Global Ecology and Biogeography
Volume	30
Issue	10
Pages (from-to)	1990-2003
Number of pages	14
ISSN	1466-822X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13360
Publication status	Published - Oct 2021

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divergence times
EAS–ENA plant disjunction
ensemble ecological niche models
niche conservatism
niche overlap
pairwise species

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Niche overlap and divergence times support niche conservatism in eastern Asia–eastern North America disjunct plants. / Yin, Xue; Jarvie, Scott; Guo, Wen Yong et al.
In: Global Ecology and Biogeography, Vol. 30, No. 10, 10.2021, p. 1990-2003.

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