The Gray Toad-headed Agama, Phrynocephalus scutellatus, on the Iranian Plateau: The degree of niche overlap depends on the phylogenetic distance
| Autor: | Masoud Yousefi, Anooshe Kafash, Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani, Farhad Ataei, Hamid Heidari, Shima Malakoutikhah |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0106 biological sciences
Ecology 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Niche Agama Zoology Climatic variables Seasonality Biology medicine.disease biology.organism_classification 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Phylogenetic distance medicine Phrynocephalus scutellatus Animal Science and Zoology Clade Gray (horse) |
| Zdroj: | Zoology in the Middle East. 64:47-54 |
| ISSN: | 2326-2680 0939-7140 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09397140.2017.1401309 |
| Popis: | The Gray Toad-headed Agama (Phrynocephalus scutellatus) occurs in Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan and is represented in Iran by four distinctive genetic clades. We built distribution models for three of these clades (one clade was not included due to a low number of distribution records) using Maximum Entropy Algorithm in order to determine the contribution of ecological factors to the distribution pattern. The degree of spatial niche overlap between every pair of clades were measured using Schoener's D niche overlap metric. The results showed that at species-level climate variables (annual precipitation, annual mean temperature) were the most influential parameters determining the boundaries of the distribution in Iran. Temperature seasonality was found to be the most influential factor in the distribution of both Clade I and Clade II. However, this variable was replaced by the annual mean temperature for Clade VI. Based on the results of Schoener's D metric, Clades I and II had the lowest, and Clades II ... |
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