The importance of species traits for species distribution on oceanic islands.

Understanding species' ability to colonize new habitats is a key knowledge allowing us to predict species' survival in the changing landscapes. However, most studies exploring this topic observe distribution of species in landscapes which are under strong human influence being fragmented o...

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Autores principales:	Kristýna Vazačová, Zuzana Münzbergová
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:c3b589b41a69408c9916c00e448dba892021-11-25T06:09:20ZThe importance of species traits for species distribution on oceanic islands.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0101046https://doaj.org/article/c3b589b41a69408c9916c00e448dba892014-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/25003737/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Understanding species' ability to colonize new habitats is a key knowledge allowing us to predict species' survival in the changing landscapes. However, most studies exploring this topic observe distribution of species in landscapes which are under strong human influence being fragmented only recently and ignore the fact that the species distribution in these landscapes is far from equilibrium. Oceanic islands seem more appropriate systems for studying the relationship between species traits and its distribution as they are fragmented without human contribution and as they remained unchanged for a long evolutionary time. In our study we compared the values of dispersal as well as persistence traits among 18 species pairs from the Canary Islands differing in their distribution within the archipelago. The data were analyzed both with and without phylogenetic correction. The results demonstrate that no dispersal trait alone can explain the distribution of the species in the system. They, however, also suggest that species with better dispersal compared to their close relatives are better colonizers. Similarly, abundance of species in the archipelago seems to be an important predictor of species colonization ability only when comparing closely related species. This implies that analyses including phylogenetic correction may provide different insights than analyses without such a correction and both types of analyses should be combined to understand the importance of various plant traits for species colonization ability.Kristýna VazačováZuzana MünzbergováPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 7, p e101046 (2014)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Kristýna Vazačová Zuzana Münzbergová The importance of species traits for species distribution on oceanic islands.
description	Understanding species' ability to colonize new habitats is a key knowledge allowing us to predict species' survival in the changing landscapes. However, most studies exploring this topic observe distribution of species in landscapes which are under strong human influence being fragmented only recently and ignore the fact that the species distribution in these landscapes is far from equilibrium. Oceanic islands seem more appropriate systems for studying the relationship between species traits and its distribution as they are fragmented without human contribution and as they remained unchanged for a long evolutionary time. In our study we compared the values of dispersal as well as persistence traits among 18 species pairs from the Canary Islands differing in their distribution within the archipelago. The data were analyzed both with and without phylogenetic correction. The results demonstrate that no dispersal trait alone can explain the distribution of the species in the system. They, however, also suggest that species with better dispersal compared to their close relatives are better colonizers. Similarly, abundance of species in the archipelago seems to be an important predictor of species colonization ability only when comparing closely related species. This implies that analyses including phylogenetic correction may provide different insights than analyses without such a correction and both types of analyses should be combined to understand the importance of various plant traits for species colonization ability.
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title	The importance of species traits for species distribution on oceanic islands.
title_short	The importance of species traits for species distribution on oceanic islands.
title_full	The importance of species traits for species distribution on oceanic islands.
title_fullStr	The importance of species traits for species distribution on oceanic islands.
title_full_unstemmed	The importance of species traits for species distribution on oceanic islands.
title_sort	importance of species traits for species distribution on oceanic islands.
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The importance of species traits for species distribution on oceanic islands.

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