Centers of endemism of freshwater protists deviate from pattern of taxon richness on a continental scale
| Autor: | Janina C. Vogt, Manfred Jensen, Jens Boenigk, Guido Sieber, Dirk C. Albach, Christina Bock, Jana L. Olefeld |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0301 basic medicine
Water microbiology lcsh:Medicine Fresh Water medicine.disease_cause Article Microbial ecology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine parasitic diseases medicine DNA Barcoding Taxonomic Taxonomic rank Endemism lcsh:Science Multidisciplinary biology Phylogenetic tree Ecology lcsh:R fungi Fungi Protist Biodiversity biology.organism_classification Phylogeography 030104 developmental biology Taxon Geography Habitat Biogeography Alveolata Freshwater ecology lcsh:Q Species richness Biologie 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Stramenopiles Dinophyceae |
| Zdroj: | Scientific Reports, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2020) Scientific Reports |
| Popis: | Here, we analyzed patterns of taxon richness and endemism of freshwater protists in Europe. Even though the significance of physicochemical parameters but also of geographic constraints for protist distribution is documented, it remains unclear where regional areas of high protist diversity are located and whether areas of high taxon richness harbor a high proportion of endemics. Further, patterns may be universal for protists or deviate between taxonomic groups. Based on amplicon sequencing campaigns targeting the SSU and ITS region of the rDNA we address these patterns at two different levels of phylogenetic resolution. Our analyses demonstrate that protists have restricted geographical distribution areas. For many taxonomic groups the regions of high taxon richness deviate from those having a high proportion of putative endemics. In particular, the diversity of high mountain lakes as azonal habitats deviated from surrounding lowlands, i.e. many taxa were found exclusively in high mountain lakes and several putatively endemic taxa occurred in mountain regions like the Alps, the Pyrenees or the Massif Central. Beyond that, taxonomic groups showed a pronounced accumulation of putative endemics in distinct regions, e.g. Dinophyceae along the Baltic Sea coastline, and Chrysophyceae in Scandinavia. Many other groups did not have pronounced areas of increased endemism but geographically restricted taxa were found across Europe. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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