The Importance of Intraspecific Variation for Niche Differentiation and Species Distribution Models: The Ecologically Diverse Frog Pleurodema thaul as Study Case

Genetic Diversity and Demographic History of the Shaggy Soft-Haired Mouse Abrothrix hirta (Cricetidae; Abrotrichini)

“…The latitude 43° S is also an area of contact of two widely distributed lineages of the guanaco Lama guanicoe ( Marín et al, 2013b ). The frogs Batrachyla leptopus ( Nuñez et al, 2020 ), Pleurodema thaul ( Barria et al, 2020 ), and the lizard Liolaemus petrophilus ( Fontanella et al, 2012 ) also present phylogeographic breaks in this area. Several of the species mentioned above, diverged into intraspecific lineages and subsequently showed demographic expansion of at least one of them toward Patagonia after the LGM.…”

“…Each lineage, which besides taxonomic status can be considered as distinct ESU, has its own combination of genetic variants (including those that discriminate the genetic groups in Figures 1 , 3 , 4 ), therefore a distinct genetic pool, which in turn would allow different responses to future environmental changes. Additionally, it has been shown that the distinctive properties of intraspecific lineages affect the projections of species distribution models (i.e., the sum of the areas resulting from models built for each lineage separately is distinct to the area resulting when modeling the species as a whole) and therefore the accuracy of predictions in the context of the environmental change due to global warming and anthropogenic impact ( Barria et al, 2020 ).…”

How the African house gecko (Hemidactylus mabouia) conquered the world

“…The model for the entire H. mabouia complex overpredicts, including areas outside the range of occurrence of H. mabouia ss , and highlights the importance of taxonomy and understanding the natural variation of a species in trying to predict its spread (e.g. [ 80 – 83 ]). Geographical range expansion in the case of invasive, commensal geckos has been shown to be linked to the expansion of the realized niche [ 84 ], which does not seem to be the case for H. mabouia .…”

Climatic‐niche evolution with key morphological innovations across clades within Scutiger boulengeri (Anura: Megophryidae)

“…In fact, spatial heterogeneity in environments coupled with reduced gene flow (resulted from intraspecific competition or dispersal limitations) can encourage local adaptation, leading to divergence in niches among closely related lineages (Smith et al, 2018). However, numerous researchers constructed niche models just by pooling but ignoring intraspecific lineages for widely distributed species owning phylogeographical structures may lose sight of considerable variation in morphological, physiological, and life-history traits under niche evolution dynamics across clades within species (Barria et al, 2020).…”