Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
The Evolution of Local Co-occurrence in Birds in Relation to Latitude, Degree of Sympatry, and Range Symmetry. |
| Authors: |
Harmáčková, Lenka1 (AUTHOR), Remeš, Vladimír1 (AUTHOR) vladimir.remes@upol.cz |
| Superior Title: |
American Naturalist. Mar2024, Vol. 203 Issue 3, p432-443. 12p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*SYMPATRIC speciation, *LATITUDE, *SPECIES diversity, *PASSERIFORMES, *SPECIES distribution, *SYMMETRY, *GENETIC speciation |
| Abstract: |
Recent speciation rates and the degree of range-wide sympatry are usually higher farther from the equator. Is there also a higher degree of secondary syntopy (coexistence in local assemblages in sympatry) at higher latitudes and, subsequently, an increase in local species richness? We studied the evolution of syntopy in passerine birds using worldwide species distribution data. We chose recently diverged species pairs from subclades not older than 5 or 7 million years, range-wide degree of sympatry not lower than 5% or 25%, and three definitions of the breeding season. We related their syntopy to latitude, the degree of sympatry (breeding range overlap), range symmetry, and the age of split. Syntopy was positively related to latitude, but it did not differ between tropical and temperate regions, instead increasing from the Southern to the Northern Hemisphere. Syntopy was also higher in species pairs with a higher degree of sympatry and more symmetric ranges, but it did not predict local species richness. Following speciation, species in the Northern Hemisphere presumably achieve positive local co-occurrence faster than elsewhere, which could facilitate their higher speciation rates. However, this does not seem to be linked to local species richness, which is probably governed by other processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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