Evolution of dispersal traits in a biogeographical context: A study using the heterocarpic Rumex bucephalophorus as a model

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1194-1203

  Talavera, María ^a   Arista, Montserrat ^a   Ortiz, Pedro L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Dispersal distance; Habitat stability; Islands; Phenotypic plasticity; Seed heteromorphism; Succession

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; DIASPORE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HABITAT TYPE; HERB; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SEED DISPERSAL; SUCCESSION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84865295962     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2012.01999.x     Document Type: Article

References (71)

1. Alberts, S.C. & Altmann, J. (1995) Balancing costs and opportunities: dispersal in male baboons. The American Naturalist, 145, 279-306.
2. Baker, G.A. & O'Dowd, D.J. (1982) Effects of parent plant density on the production of achene types in the annual Hypochoeris glabra. Journal of Ecology, 70, 201-215.
3. Benard, M.F. & McCauley, S.J. (2008) Integrating across life-history stages: consequences of natal habitat effects on dispersal. The American Naturalist, 171, 553-567.
4. Bengtsson, B.O. (1978) Avoiding inbreeding: at what cost? Journal of Theoretical Biology, 73, 439-444.
5. Bensch, S., Hasselquist, D., Nielsen, B. & Hansson, B. (1998) Higher fitness for philopatric than for immigrant males in a semi-isolated population of great reed warblers. Evolution, 52, 877-883.
6. Bonte, D., Hovestadt, T. & Poethke, H.-J. (2010) Evolution of dispersal polymorphism and local adaptation of dispersal distance in spatially structured landscapes. Oikos, 119, 560-566.
7. Bowler, D.E. & Benton, T.G. (2005) Causes and consequences of animal dispersal strategies: relating individual behaviour to spatial dynamics. Biological Reviews, 80, 205-225.
8. Carlquist, S.C. (1965) Island Life: A Natural History of the islands of World. Natural History Press, Garden City, New York, USA.
9. Cheplick, G.P. & Quinn, J.A. (1982) Amphicarpum purshii and the "pessimistic strategy" in amphicarpic annuals with subterranean fruit. Oecologia, 52, 327-332.
10. Cheptou, P.O., Carrue, O. & Cantarel, A. (2008) Rapid evolution of seed dispersal in an urban environment in the weed Crepis sancta. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105, 3796-3799.
11. Clay, K. (1982) Environmental and genetic determinants of cleistogamy in a natural population of the grass Danthonia spicata. Evolution, 36, 734-741.
12. Clobert, J., Danchin, E., Dhondt, A.A. & Nichols, J.D. (2001) Dispersal. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
13. Cody, M.L. & Overton, J.M. (1996) Short-term evolution of reduced dispersal in island plant populations. Journal of Ecology, 84, 53-61.
14. Cowie, R.H. & Holland, B.S. (2006) Dispersal is fundamental to biogeography and the evolution of biodiversity on oceanic islands. Journal of Biogeography, 33, 193-198.
15. Darling, E., Samis, K.E. & Eckert, C.G. (2008) Increased seed dispersal potential towards geographic range limits in a Pacific coast dune plant. New Phytologist, 178, 424-435.
16. Darwin, C.R. (1859) On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 1st edn. John Murray, London.
17. Donohue, K. (1999) Seed dispersal as a maternally influenced character: mechanistic basis of maternal effects and selection on maternal characters in an annual plant. The American Naturalist, 154, 674-689.
18. Donohue, K., Polisetty, C.R. & Wender, N.J. (2005) Genetic basis and consequences of niche construction: plasticity-induced genetic constraints on the evolution of seed dispersal in Arabidopsis thaliana. The American Naturalist, 165, 537-550.
19. Fresnillo, B. & Ehlers, B.K. (2008) Variation in dispersability among mainland and island populations of three wind dispersed plant species. Plant Systematics and Evolution, 270, 243-255.
20. Gadgil, M. (1971) Dispersal: population consequences and evolution. Ecology, 52, 253-261.
21. Gandon, S. & Michalakis, Y. (2001) Multiple causes of the evolution of dispersal. Dispersal (eds J. Clobert, E. Danchin, A.A. Dhondt & J.D. Nichols ), pp. 155-167. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
22. Garant, D., Forde, S.E. & Hendry, A.P. (2007) The multifarious effects of dispersal and gene flow on contemporary adaptation. Functional Ecology, 21, 434-443.
23. García, R., Gallego, D., Hernández, E., Gimeno, L. & Ribera, P. (2001) Influence of the North Atlantic oscillation on the Canary Islands precipitation. Journal of Climate, 14, 3889-3903.
24. Greene, D.F. & Johnson, E.A. (1990) Seed mass and dispersal capacity in wind-dispersed diaspores. Oikos, 67, 69-74.
25. Hamilton, W.H. & May, R.M. (1977) Dispersal in stable habitats. Nature, 269, 578-581.
26. Hanski, I., Alho, J. & Moilanen, A. (2000) Estimating the parameters of migration and survival for individuals in metapopulations. Ecology, 81, 239-251.
27. Hendry, A.P. (2004) Selection against migrants contributes to the rapid evolution of ecologically dependent reproductive isolation. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 6, 1219-1236.
28. Hovestadt, T., Messner, S. & Poethke, H.-J. (2001) Evolution of reduced dispersal mortality and 'fat-tailed' dispersal kernels in autocorrelated landscapes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 268, 385-391.
29. Howe, H.F. & Smallwood, J. (1982) Ecology of seed dispersal. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 13, 201-228.
30. Imbert, E. (2002) Ecological consequences and ontogeny of seed heteromorphism. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 5, 13-36.
31. Imbert, E., Escarré, J. & Lepart, J. (1999) Differentiation among populations for life history, morphology, head traits, and achene morph proportions in the heterocarpic species Crepis sancta (L.) Bornm. (Asteraceae). International Journal of Plant Sciences, 160, 543-552.
32. Imbert, E. & Ronce, O. (2001) Phenotypic plasticity for dispersal ability in the seed heteromorphic Crepis sancta (Asteraceae). Oikos, 93, 126-134.
33. Lázaro, A. & Traveset, A. (2009) Does the spatial variation in selective pressures explain among-site differences in seed mass? A test with Buxus balearica Evolutionary Ecology, 23, 847-865.
34. Lenormand, T. (2002) Gene flow and the limits to natural selection. Trends in Ecology and Evoution, 17, 183-189.
35. López González, G. (1990) Rumex L. Flora iberica II (eds S. Castroviejo, M. Laínz, G. López González, P. Montserrat, F. Muñoz Garmendia, J. Paiva & L. Villar ), pp. 595-634. Jardín Botánico de Madrid, CSIC, Madrid.
36. Marshall, D.J. & Uller, T. (2007) When is a maternal effect adaptive? Oikos, 116, 1957-1963.
37. Mathias, A., Kisdi, È.A. & Olivieri, I. (2001) Divergent evolution of dispersal in a heterogeneous landscape. Evolution, 55, 246-259.
38. McNamara, J. & Quinn, J.A. (1977) Resource allocation and reproduction in populations of Amphicarpum purshii (Gramineae). American Journal of Botany, 64, 17-23.
39. McPeek, M.A. & Holt, R.D. (1992) The evolution of dispersal in spatially and temporally varying environments. The American Naturalist, 140, 1010-1027.
40. Meyer, S.E. & Carlson, S.L. (2001) Achene mass variation in Ericameria nauseosus (Asteraceae) in relation to dispersal ability and seedling fitness. Functional Ecology, 15, 274-281.
41. Mix, C., Picó, F.X., van Groenendael, J.M. & Ouborg, N.J. (2006) Inbreeding and soil conditions affect dispersal and components of performance of two plant species in fragmented landscapes. Basic and Applied Ecology, 7, 59-69.
42. Monty, A. & Mahy, G. (2010) Evolution of dispersal traits along an invasion route in the wind-dispersed Senecio inaequidens (Asteraceae). Oikos, 119, 1563-1570.
43. Murrell, D.J., Travis, J.M.J. & Dytham, C. (2002) The evolution of dispersal distance in spatially-structured populations. Oikos, 97, 229-236.
44. Murren, C.J., Julliard, R., Schlichting, C.D. & Clobert, J. (2001) Dispersal, individual phenotype, and phenotypic plasticity. Dispersal (eds J. Clobert, E. Danchin, A.A. Dhondt & J.D. Nichols ), pp. 262-272. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
45. Nathan, R., Katul, G.G., Horn, H.S., Thomas, S.M., Oren, R., Avissar, R., Pacala, S.W. & Levin, S.A. (2002) Mechanisms of long-distance dispersal of seeds by wind. Nature, 418, 409-413.
46. Navajas-Pérez, R., de la Herran, R., González, G.L., Jamilena, M., Lozano, R., Rejón, C.R., Rejón, M.R. & Garrido-Ramos, M.A. (2005) The evolution of reproductive systems and sex-determining mechanisms within Rumex (Polygonaceae) inferred from nuclear and chloroplastidial sequence data. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 22, 1929-1939.
47. Nosil, P., Vines, T.H. & Funk, D.J. (2005) Reproductive isolation caused by natural selection against immigrants from divergent habitats. Evolution, 59, 705-719.
48. Olivieri, I., Couvet, D. & Gouyon, P.H. (1990) The genetics of transient populations: research at the metapopulation level. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 5, 207-210.
49. Olivieri, I. & Gouyon, P.H. (1985) Seed dimorphism for dispersal: theory and implications. Structure and Functioning of Plant Populations (eds J. Haeck & J.W. Woldendorp ), pp. 77-90. North-Holland Publishers, Amsterdam.
50. Olivieri, I. & Gouyon, P.H. (1997) Evolution of migration rate and other traits. The metapopulation effect. Metapopulation Biology (eds I. Hanski & M.E. Gilpin ), pp. 293-323. Academic Press, San Diego, California, USA.
51. Olivieri, I., Michalakis, Y. & Gouyon, P.H. (1995) Metapopulation genetics and the evolution of dispersal. The American Naturalist, 146, 202-228.
52. Ortiz, P.L., Berjano, R., Talavera, M. & Arista, M. (2009) The role of resources and architecture in modeling floral variability for the monoecious amphicarpic Emex spinosa (Polygonaceae). American Journal of Botany, 96, 2062-2073.
53. Prada, S., Sequeira, M.M., Figuera, C. & Oliveira da Silva, M. (2009) Fog precipitation and rainfall interception in the natural forests of Madeira Island (Portugal). Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 149, 1179-1187.
54. Riba, M., Mayol, M., Giles, B.E., Ronce, O., Imbert, E., Van Der Velde, M., Chauvet, S., Ericson, L., Bijlsma, R., Vosman, B., Smulders, M.J.M. & Olivieri, I. (2009) Darwin's wind hypothesis: does it work for plant dispersal in fragmented habitats? New Phytologist, 183, 667-677.
55. Rodó, X. & Comín, F. (2001) Fluctuaciones del clima mediterráneo. Conexiones globales y consecuencias regionales. Ecosistemas Mediterráneos, análisis funcional (eds R. Zamora & F.I. Pugnaire ), pp. 1-35. CSIC, Madrid.
56. Roff, D.A. (1975) Population stability and the evolution of dispersal in a heterogeneous environment. Oecologia, 19, 217-237.
57. Ronce, O., Olivieri, I., Clobert, J. & Danchin, E. (2001) Perspectives on the study of dispersal evolution. Dispersal (eds J. Clobert, E. Danchin, A.A. Dhondt & J.D. Nichols ), pp. 341-357. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
58. Ronce, O., Branchet, S., Olivieri, I., Gouyon, P.H. & Clobert, J. (2005) Plastic changes in seed dispersal along ecological succession: theoretical predictions from an evolutionary model. Journal of Ecology, 93, 431-440.
59. Ruiz de Clavijo, E. (1995) The ecological significance of fruit heteromorphism in the amphicarpic species Catananche lutea (Asteraceae). International Journal of Plant Sciences, 156, 824-833.
60. Sadeh, A., Guterman, H., Gersani, M. & Ovadia, O. (2009) Plastic bet-hedging in an amphicarpic annual: an integrated strategy under variable conditions. Evolutionary Ecology, 23, 373-388.
61. Snyder, R.E. (2011) Leaving home ain't easy: non-local seed dispersal is only evolutionary stable in highly unpredictable environments. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 278, 739-744.
62. Soons, M.B., Heil, G.W., Nathan, R. & Katul, G.G. (2004) Determinants of long-distance seed dispersal by wind in grasslands. Ecology, 85, 3056-3068.
63. Talavera, M. (2011) La heterocarpia en Rumex bucephalophorus L.: significado ecológico e implicaciones filogeográficas. PhD thesis, University of Seville, Seville.
64. Talavera, M., Ortiz, P.L., Arista, M., Berjano, R. & Imbert, E. (2010) Disentangling sources of maternal effects in the heterocarpic species Rumex bucephalophorus. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 12, 295-304.
65. Talavera, M., Balao, F., Casimiro-Soriguer, R., Ortiz, M.Á., Terrab, A., Arista, M., Ortiz, P.L., Stuessy, T.F. & Talavera, S. (2011) Molecular phylogeny and systematics of the highly polymorphic Rumex bucephalophorus complex (Polygonaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 61, 659-670.
66. Tébar, F.J. & Llorens, I. (1993) Heterocarpy in Thymelea velutina (Poire ex. Camb.) Endl., a case of phenotypic adaptation to Mediterranean selective pressures. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 111, 295-300.
67. Telenius, A. & Torstensson, P. (1999) Seed type and seed size variation in the heteromorphic saltmarsh annual Spergularia salina along the coast of Sweden. Plant Biology, 1, 585-593.
68. Thiede, D.A. & Augspurger, C.K. (1996) Intraspecific variation in seed dispersion of Lepidium campestre (Brassicaceae). American Journal of Botany, 83, 856-866.
69. Venable, D.L. (1985) The evolutionary ecology of seed heteromorphism. The American Naturalist, 126, 577-595.
70. Venable, D.L., Dyreson, E. & Morales, E. (1995) Population dynamic consequences and evolution of seed traits of Heterosperma pinnatum (Asteraceae). American Journal of Botany, 82, 410-420.
71. Venable, D.L., Corral, G., Morales, E. & Espinosa, F. (1987) The ecology of seed heteromorphism in Heterosperma pinnatum in Central Mexico. Ecology, 68, 65-76.