Affiliation:
1. Université de Rennes 1, CNRS Research Unit Ecosystèmes Biodiversité Evolution (ECOBIO) Campus de Beaulieu 35042 Rennes France
2. Department of Genetic Ecology Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences CZ‐25243 Pruhonice 1 Czech Republic
3. Institute of Biology/Geobotany & Botanical Garden Martin Luther University Halle‐Wittenberg Am Kirchtor 1 06108 Halle Germany
4. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle‐Jena‐Leipzig Puschstr. 4 04103 Leipzig Germany
5. Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm SE‐100 44 Sweden
Abstract
AbstractPremisePlant lineages differ markedly in species richness globally, regionally, and locally. Differences in whole‐genome characteristics (WGCs) such as monoploid chromosome number, genome size, and ploidy level may explain differences in global species richness through speciation or global extinction. However, it is unknown whether WGCs drive species richness within lineages also in a recent, postglacial regional flora or in local plant communities through local extinction or colonization and regional species turnover.MethodsWe tested for relationships between WGCs and richness of angiosperm families across the Netherlands/Germany/Czechia as a region, and within 193,449 local vegetation plots.ResultsFamilies that are species‐rich across the region have lower ploidy levels and small monoploid chromosomes numbers or both (interaction terms), but the relationships disappear after accounting for continental and local richness of families. Families that are species‐rich within occupied localities have small numbers of polyploidy and monoploid chromosome numbers or both, independent of their own regional richness and the local richness of all other locally co‐occurring species in the plots. Relationships between WGCs and family species‐richness persisted after accounting for niche characteristics and life histories.ConclusionsFamilies that have few chromosomes, either monoploid or holoploid, succeed in maintaining many species in local communities and across a continent and, as indirect consequence of both, across a region. We suggest evolutionary mechanisms to explain how small chromosome numbers and ploidy levels might decrease rates of local extinction and increase rates of colonization. The genome of a macroevolutionary lineage may ultimately control whether its species can ecologically coexist.
Subject
Plant Science,Genetics,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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