Historical biogeography identifies a possible role of Miocene wetlands in the diversification of the Amazonian rocket frogs (Aromobatidae: <i>Allobates</i>)

Réjaud, Alexandre; Rodrigues, Miguel Tréfaut; Crawford, Andrew J.; Castroviejo‐Fisher, Santiago; Jaramillo, Alberto; Chaparro, Juan C.; Glaw, Frank; Gagliardi‐Urrutia, Giussepe; Moravec, Jiří; Riva, Ignacio De la; Pérez, Pedro Seijo; Lima, Albertina P.; Werneck, Fernanda P.; Hrbek, Tomas; Ron, Santiago R.; Ernst, Raffael; Kok, Philippe J. R.; Driskell, Amy C.; Chave, Jérôme; Fouquet, Antoine

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“…Relationships of SD with air temperature and precipitation in these regions (Figures 7A,B) are consistent with contributing roles of both contemporary ecological and historical (time-integrated) macroevolutionary effects driving down aquatic species diversity at higher elevations (e.g., Lujan et al, 2013;Hazzi et al, 2018). Similarly, the history of topographic growth, as opposed to present-day topographic or climatic conditions, is thought to be more important to the evolution and enrichment of many terrestrial (Castroviejo-Fisher et al, 2014;Antonelli et al, 2018a;Azevedo et al, 2020;Réjaud et al, 2020;Igea and Tanentzap, 2021) and aquatic (Smith et al, 2010;Badgley et al, 2017) vertebrate faunas.…”

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Landscape Evolution as a Diversification Driver in Freshwater Fishes

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The exceptional concentration of vertebrate diversity in continental freshwaters has been termed the “freshwater fish paradox,” with > 15,000 fish species representing more than 20% of all vertebrate species compressed into tiny fractions of the Earth’s land surface area (<0.5%) or total aquatic habitat volume (<0.001%). This study asks if the fish species richness of the world’s river basins is explainable in terms of river captures using topographic metrics as proxies. The River Capture Hypothesis posits that drainage-network rearrangements have accelerated biotic diversification through their combined effects on dispersal, speciation, and extinction. Yet rates of river capture are poorly constrained at the basin scale worldwide. Here we assess correlations between fish species density (data for 14,953 obligate freshwater fish species) and basin-wide metrics of landscape evolution (data for 3,119 river basins), including: topography (elevation, average relief, slope, drainage area) and climate (average rainfall and air temperature). We assess the results in the context of both static landscapes (e.g., species-area and habitat heterogeneity relationships) and transient landscapes (e.g., river capture, tectonic activity, landscape disequilibrium). We also relax assumptions of functional neutrality of basins (tropical vs. extratropical, tectonically stable vs. active terrains). We found a disproportionate number of freshwater species in large, lowland river basins of tropical South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia, under predictable conditions of large geographic area, tropical climate, low topographic relief, and high habitat volume (i.e., high rainfall rates). However, our results show that these conditions are only necessary, but not fully sufficient, to explain the basins with the highest diversity. Basins with highest diversity are all located on tectonically stable regions, places where river capture is predicted to be most conducive to the formation of high fish species richness over evolutionary timescales. Our results are consistent with predictions of several landscape evolution models, including the River Capture Hypothesis, Mega Capture Hypothesis, and Intermediate Capture Rate Hypothesis, and support conclusions of numerical modeling studies indicating landscape transience as a mechanistic driver of net diversification in riverine and riparian organisms with widespread continental distributions.

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Landscape Evolution as a Diversification Driver in Freshwater Fishes

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“…With almost the entire eastern and southern parts (25%) of its extent being already deforested for agriculture, an unknown proportion of endemic species, and thus of the testimony of Amazonian history, has already vanished (Lovejoy & Nobre, 2019). Anuran clades have repeatedly been documented to harbour many unnamed species in Amazonia (Vacher et al, 2020) and to display strikingly allopatric distribution patterns that could provide crucial insights into Amazonia's past (Fouquet, Cassini, Haddad, Pech, & Rodrigues, 2014;R ejaud et al, 2020). This is notably the case of the Boana albopunctata species group (Caminer & Ron, 2014;Funk et al, 2012).…”

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Systematics and biogeography of theBoana albopunctataspecies group (Anura, Hylidae), with the description of two new species from Amazonia

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Réjaud

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Systematics and Biodiversity

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“…Both contemporary and historical drivers play important roles in explaining current patterns of diversity in Amazon taxa (Albert et al, 2021;Azevedo et al, 2020;Crouch et al, 2019;Coronado et al, 2015;Réjaud et al, 2020). Here, using a large data set on freshwater fish distribution in the Amazon River basin (Jézéquel, Tedesco, Bigorne, et al, 2020) and a recent phylogenetic supertree (Rabosky et al, 2018), we found marked and contrasting phylogenetic signatures of fish assemblages across the 97 sub-drainages covering the entire system, whatever the phylogenetic metric analysed (i.e.…”

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Drivers of phylogenetic structure in Amazon freshwater fish assemblages

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Cassemiro

Albert

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Journal of Biogeography

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Aim: Phylogenetic relatedness among species can provide useful information on the diversification history and past dispersal events that may have shaped contemporary assemblages. Here, using of the most comprehensive fish occurrence database currently available and a global molecular phylogeny of ray-finned fishes, we evaluate the respective roles of historical and contemporary processes in generating and maintaining fish assemblage phylodiversity patterns among 97 sub-drainages covering the Amazon River basin.Location: Amazon River basin.Taxon: Freshwater fishes.Methods: Using a large comprehensive database of freshwater fish species distributions, and a global molecular phylogeny of ray-finned (actinopterygian) fishes, we estimated historical and contemporary environmental effects on sub-drainage fish phylodiversity patterns using three phylogenetic metrics standardized for richness effect: Phylogenetic Diversity (ses.PD), Mean pairwise Phylogenetic Distance between species capturing patterns at older evolutionary timescales (ses.MPD), and Mean Nearest Taxon Distance capturing patterns at younger evolutionary timescales (ses.MNTD). Results:We found significant effects of elevation gradients, contemporary climate, and water types on assemblage phylodiversity patterns. Furthermore, we found

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Historical biogeography identifies a possible role of Miocene wetlands in the diversification of the Amazonian rocket frogs (Aromobatidae: Allobates)

Cited by 41 publications

References 69 publications

Landscape Evolution as a Diversification Driver in Freshwater Fishes

Landscape Evolution as a Diversification Driver in Freshwater Fishes

Systematics and biogeography of theBoana albopunctataspecies group (Anura, Hylidae), with the description of two new species from Amazonia

Drivers of phylogenetic structure in Amazon freshwater fish assemblages

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