Geographical features of Tulipa suaveolens Roth (Liliaceae, Magnoliophyta) distribution by flower color across its European range

Author:

Kashin A. S.1ORCID,Kritskaya T. A.1ORCID,Kondratieva A. O.1ORCID,Petrova N. A.1ORCID,Shilova I. V.1ORCID,Parkhomenko A. S.1ORCID,Murtazaliev R. A.2ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Saratov State University

2. Caspian Institute of Biological Resources of the Dagestan Federal Research Center of RAS

Abstract

The range of the polychromous Tulipa suaveolens Roth comprises almost the whole Ponto-Caspian Steppe, from the south-east of Ukraine to western Kazakhstan. High variation in flower color is a unique feature of this species, but features of its geographical distribution remain unclear. We studied T. suaveolens tepal color variation in 56 natural populations across the European range. Tepal colors were detected from digital images using the Lab color model with two chromatic components, a (red color intensity) and b (yellow color intensity). A conclusion was made that, throughout the European range, an obvious T. suaveolens flower color gradient is expressed in the direction from the south-west to the north-east, along which the red chromatic component intensity decreases. A similar gradient is observed when the height above mean sea level increases. The chromatic component a was shown to have a spatial autocorrelation and to depend on the long-term bioclimatic environmental parameters, temperature and precipitation. Thus, the identified geographical trends in the T. suaveolens flower color distribution across the studied part of its range are a consequence of natural selection caused by these two abiotic factors. 

Publisher

A.N.Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS - IEE RAS

Subject

Ecology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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