Southern Africa's Great Escarpment as an amphitheater of climate-driven diversification and a buffer against future climate change in bats

© 2024 The Author(s). Global Change Biology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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Veröffentlicht in:Global change biology. - 1999. - 30(2024), 6 vom: 05. Juni, Seite e17344
1. Verfasser: Taylor, Peter J (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Kearney, Teresa C, Clark, Vincent Ralph, Howard, Alexandra, Mdluli, Monday V, Markotter, Wanda, Geldenhuys, Marike, Richards, Leigh R, Rakotoarivelo, Andrinajoro R, Watson, Johan, Balona, Julio, Monadjem, Ara
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2024
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Global change biology
Schlagworte:Journal Article Afromontane Chiroptera baculum biodiversity evolution craniometric cytochrome‐b echolocation frequency geographical range phenotype DNA, Mitochondrial
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520 |a Hosting 1460 plant and 126 vertebrate endemic species, the Great Escarpment (hereafter, Escarpment) forms a semi-circular "amphitheater" of mountains girdling southern Africa from arid west to temperate east. Since arid and temperate biota are usually studied separately, earlier studies overlooked the biogeographical importance of the Escarpment as a whole. Bats disperse more widely than other mammalian taxa, with related species and intraspecific lineages occupying both arid and temperate highlands of the Escarpment, providing an excellent model to address this knowledge gap. We investigated patterns of speciation and micro-endemism from modeled past, present, and future distributions in six clades of southern African bats from three families (Rhinolophidae, Cistugidae, and Vespertilionidae) having different crown ages (Pleistocene to Miocene) and biome affiliations (temperate to arid). We estimated mtDNA relaxed clock dates of key divergence events across the six clades in relation both to biogeographical features and patterns of phenotypic variation in crania, bacula and echolocation calls. In horseshoe bats (Rhinolophidae), both the western and eastern "arms" of the Escarpment have facilitated dispersals from the Afrotropics into southern Africa. Pleistocene and pre-Pleistocene "species pumps" and temperate refugia explained observed patterns of speciation, intraspecific divergence and, in two cases, mtDNA introgression. The Maloti-Drakensberg is a center of micro-endemism for bats, housing three newly described or undescribed species. Vicariance across biogeographic barriers gave rise to 29 micro-endemic species and intraspecific lineages whose distributions were congruent with those identified in other phytogeographic and zoogeographic studies. Although Köppen-Geiger climate models predict a widespread replacement of current temperate ecosystems in southern Africa by tropical or arid ecosystems by 2070-2100, future climate Maxent models for 13 bat species (all but one of those analyzed above) showed minimal range changes in temperate species from the eastern Escarpment by 2070, possibly due to the buffering effect of mountains to climate change 
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700 1 |a Clark, Vincent Ralph  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
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700 1 |a Mdluli, Monday V  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Markotter, Wanda  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Geldenhuys, Marike  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Richards, Leigh R  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
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700 1 |a Watson, Johan  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Balona, Julio  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Monadjem, Ara  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
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