Conservatism of Ecological Niches in Evolutionary Time-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Conservatism of Ecological Niches in Evolutionary Time

Published:1999-08-20 Issue:5431 Volume:285 Page:1265-1267
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
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Author:

Peterson A. T.¹,Soberón J.²,Sánchez-Cordero V.³

Affiliation:

1. Natural History Museum, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA.

2. Instituto de Ecologı́a, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F. 04510, México.

3. Departamento de Zoologı́a, Instituto de Biologı́a, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F. 04510, México.

Abstract

Theory predicts low niche differentiation between species over evolutionary time scales, but little empirical evidence is available. Reciprocal geographic predictions based on ecological niche models of sister taxon pairs of birds, mammals, and butterflies in southern Mexico indicate niche conservatism over several million years of independent evolution (between putative sister taxon pairs) but little conservatism at the level of families. Niche conservatism over such time scales indicates that speciation takes place in geographic, not ecological, dimensions and that ecological differences evolve later.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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