Biodiversity only makes sense in the light of evolution

Geeta, R.; Lohmann, Lúcia G.; Magallón, Susana; Faith, Daniel P.; Hendry, Andrew P.; Crandall, Keith A.; Meester, Luc De; Webb, Campbell O.; Prieur‐Richard, Anne‐Hélène; Mimura, M.; Conti, Elena; Cracraft, Joel; Forest, Félix; Jaramillo, Carlos; Donoghue, Michael J.; Yahara, Tetsukazu

doi:10.1007/s12038-014-9427-y

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“…changes to large seeds and to lack of seed dormancy) from wild relatives to domesticates of the Fertile Crescent are driven by indirect selection of traits correlated with either human‐targeted features or with environmental adaptations (Milla et al, ). These analyses may expose unexpected genetic potential of the wild relatives of domesticates and their potential responses to climate change, especially aridification (Geeta et al, ).…”

Section: Evolutionary Perspectives On the Irano‐turanian Regionmentioning

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Visions of the past and dreams of the future in the Orient: the Irano‐Turanian region from classical botany to evolutionary studies

2016

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Ever since the 19th century, the immense arid lands of the Orient, now called the Irano-Turanian (IT) floristic region, attracted the interest of European naturalists with their tremendous plant biodiversity. Covering approximately 30% of the surface of Eurasia (16000000 km ), the IT region is one of the largest floristic regions of the world. The IT region represents one of the hotspots of evolutionary and biological diversity in the Old World, and serves as a source of xerophytic taxa for neighbouring regions. Moreover, it is the cradle of the numerous species domesticated in the Fertile Crescent. Over the last 200 years, naturalists outlined different borders for the IT region. Yet, the delimitation and evolutionary history of this area remain one of the least well-understood fields of global biogeography, even though it is crucial to explaining the distribution of life in Eurasia. No comprehensive review of the biogeographical delimitations nor of the role of geological and climatic changes in the evolution of the IT region is currently available. After considering the key role of floristic regions in biogeography, we review the history of evolving concepts about the borders and composition of the IT region over the past 200 years and outline a tentative circumscription for it. We also summarise current knowledge on the geological and climatic history of the IT region. We then use this knowledge to generate specific evolutionary hypotheses to explain how different geological, palaeoclimatic, and ecological factors contributed to range expansion and contraction, thus shaping patterns of speciation in the IT region over time and space. Both historical and ecological biogeography should be applied to understand better the floristic diversification of the region. This will ultimately require evolutionary comparative analyses based on integrative phylogenetic, geological, climatic, ecological, and species distribution studies on the region. Furthermore, an understanding of evolutionary and ecological processes will play a major role in regional planning for protecting biodiversity of the IT region in facing climatic change. With this review, we aim to introduce the IT floristic region to a broader audience of evolutionary, ecological and systematic biologists, thus promoting cutting-edge research on this area and raising awareness of this vast and diverse, yet understudied, part of the world.

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Visions of the past and dreams of the future in the Orient: the Irano‐Turanian region from classical botany to evolutionary studies

2016

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“…Over 50% of the global usable land is already in pastoral or intensive agricultural uses and urban systems, reducing the potential for the sustainable provision of many goods and services from natural ecosystems. These new systems have been causing negative effects on climate, soil fertility, biogeochemical cycles, land use, and diversity at different spatial scales [5,37,38].…”

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Effect of Agricultural Pesticides and Land Use Intensification on Amphibian Larval Development

Rozo¹,

Camacho-Reyes²

2023

Veterinary Medicine and Science

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The increase in human population had to increase the demand for vital resources, including food, generating intensive and extractive exploitation, and impacting natural ecosystems and biodiversity. Land degradation of ecosystems is a serious and widespread problem in the world. The expansion of the agricultural frontier is by direct or indirect human-induced processes, expressed as long-term reduction or loss of biodiversity. The expansion and industrialization of agriculture had been negatively affected by soil fertility, the climate, biogeochemical cycles, bodies of water, and loss of biodiversity on different spatiotemporal scales. Intensive agriculture, in the form of monocultures, is subjected to strict pest controls for the use of highly toxic agrochemicals. Pesticides are used in monocultures by spraying aqueous dilutions. Knowing the toxic effect of pesticides and agrochemicals on amphibians is very important. These animals have special ecophysiological conditions because they have biphasic life cycles composed of an embryonic and larval aquatic development stage and the adult stage in humid terrestrial environments. For these reasons, the amphibians have been observed with increased mortality rates, reduced prey availability, and affected growth rates.

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“…For example, an assemblage or region that houses many lineages can be interpreted as having a richer evolutionary history, and therefore may be a greater priority for conservation than one that houses few. However, the conservation value of lineage diversity has yet to be fully, and persuasively, communicated [2][3][4]. Providing clear and accurate quantification of lineage diversity may assist its integration into conservation practice.…”

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Exploring the Concept of Lineage Diversity across North American Forests

Dexter

Cortés

Griffiths

2019

Forests

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Lineage diversity can refer to the number of genetic lineages within species or to the number of deeper evolutionary lineages, such as genera or families, within a community or assemblage of species. Here, we study the latter, which we refer to as assemblage lineage diversity (ALD), focusing in particular on its richness dimension. ALD is of interest to ecologists, evolutionary biologists, biogeographers, and those setting conservation priorities, but despite its relevance, it is not clear how to best quantify it. With North American tree assemblages as an example, we explore and compare different metrics that can quantify ALD. We show that both taxonomic measures (e.g., family richness) and Faith’s phylogenetic diversity (PD) are strongly correlated with the number of lineages in recent evolutionary time, but have weaker correlations with the number of lineages deeper in the evolutionary history of an assemblage. We develop a new metric, time integrated lineage diversity (TILD), which serves as a useful complement to PD, by giving equal weight to old and recent lineage diversity. In mapping different ALD metrics across the contiguous United States, both PD and TILD reveal high ALD across large areas of the eastern United States, but TILD gives greater value to the southeast Coastal Plain, southern Rocky Mountains and Pacific Northwest, while PD gives relatively greater value to the southern Appalachians and Midwest. Our results demonstrate the value of using multiple metrics to quantify ALD, in order to highlight areas of both recent and older evolutionary diversity.

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Biodiversity only makes sense in the light of evolution

Cited by 12 publications

References 26 publications

Visions of the past and dreams of the future in the Orient: the Irano‐Turanian region from classical botany to evolutionary studies

Visions of the past and dreams of the future in the Orient: the Irano‐Turanian region from classical botany to evolutionary studies

Effect of Agricultural Pesticides and Land Use Intensification on Amphibian Larval Development

Exploring the Concept of Lineage Diversity across North American Forests

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