ArticleThe New phytologist2016
Niche dynamics of alien species do not differ among sexual and apomictic flowering plants.
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- Geographical Parthenogenesis in Alpine and Arctic Plants.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Autonomous apomixis inAoB PLANTS · 2021Article
- Most invasive species largely conserve their climatic niche.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Ligustrum lucidum W. T. Aiton (broad-leaf privet) demonstrates climatic niche shifts during global-scale invasion.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Global, regional, and cladistic patterns of variation in climatic niche breadths in terrestrial elapid snakes.Current zoology · 2019Article
- The Rise of Apomixis in Natural Plant Populations.Frontiers in plant science · 2019Review
- Ecological differentiation facilitates fine-scale coexistence of sexual and asexual Boechera.American journal of botany · 2018Article
- Niche conservatism of Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti - two mosquito species with different invasion histories.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Intraspecific ecological niche divergence and reproductive shifts foster cytotype displacement and provide ecological opportunity to polyploids.Annals of botany · 2018Article
- Invasive alien pests threaten the carbon stored in Europe's forests.Nature communications · 2018Article
- Climatic niche and potential distribution of Tithonia diversifolia (Hemsl.) A. Gray in Africa.PloS one · 2018Article
- Will climate change increase hybridization risk between potential plant invaders and their congeners in Europe?Diversity & distributions · 2017Article
- Climatic niche divergence and habitat suitability of eight alien invasive weeds in China under climate change.Ecology and evolution · 2017Article
- Niche shifts and the potential distribution of Phenacoccus solenopsis (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) under climate change.PloS one · 2017Article
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Abstract
Biological invasions can be associated with shifts of the species' climatic niches but the incidence of such shifts is under debate. The reproductive system might be a key factor controlling such shifts because it influences a species' evolutionary flexibility. However, the link between reproductive systems and niche dynamics in plant invasions has been little studied so far. We compiled global occurrence data sets of 13 congeneric sexual and apomictic species pairs, and used principal components analysis (PCA) and kernel smoothers to compare changes in climatic niche optima, breadths and unfilling/expansion between native and alien ranges. Niche change metrics were compared between sexual and apomictic species. All 26 species showed changes in niche optima and/or breadth and 14 species significantly expanded their climatic niches. However, we found no effect of the reproductive system on niche dynamics. Instead, species with narrower native niches showed higher rates of niche expansion in the alien ranges. Our results suggest that niche shifts are frequent in plant invasions but evolutionary potential may not be of major importance for such shifts. Niche dynamics rather appear to be driven by changes of the realized niche without adaptive change of the fundamental climatic niche.
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