Journal
JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY
Volume 44, Issue 2, Pages 294-307Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12836
Keywords
biodiversity hotspot; gene flow; genetic differentiation; Hengduan Mountains; intraspecific radiation; Neogene; orogeny; Quercus aquifolioides; Tibet
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Funding
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2015ZCQ-LX-03]
- National Science Foundation of China [41201051, 41430749]
- Beijing Nova Program [Z151100000315056]
- Plan 111 Program [B13007]
- Sichuan Provincial Department of Science and Technology [2015JQ0018]
- Sichuan University
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AimHotspots of biodiversity are often associated with areas that have undergone orogenic activity during recent geological history. Mountain uplifts are known to catalyse species radiation but their impact on evolutionarily stable taxa such as many trees remains little understood. The oak Quercus aquifolioides is endemic to yet widely distributed across the Hengduanshan Biodiversity Hotspot in the Eastern Himalayas. Here, we investigate how the region's Neogene and Quaternary history has driven the species' past population dynamics and the resulting extant patterns of intraspecific diversity. LocationHengduanshan Biodiversity Hotspot in SW China. MethodsWe sampled 58 populations throughout the species range and genotyped a total of 959 individuals at four chloroplast DNA fragments and 11 nuclear microsatellite loci. Phylogenetic reconstructions, molecular dating techniques and ancestral area reconstructions were used in combination with population genetic statistics to infer the biogeographical history of Q. aquifolioides. The phylogeographical study was complemented by a survey of fossil records and a niche modelling exercise. ResultsCombined molecular and fossil evidence indicates that Q. aquifolioides descended during the late Miocene from the central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau into Tibet and the western Sichuan Plateau, and from there, into the area of highest endemism in the Hengduan Mountains sensu lato. Great apparent population stability and a haplotype radiation' in this area contrasted with marked extinction-recolonization dynamics and reduced population diversity in Tibet. We found evidence for extremely limited seed gene flow but extensive pollen gene flow (global F-ST: cpDNA=0.98, nSSR=0.07) with signals of asymmetric pollen dispersal from the Hengduan Mountains into Tibet. Main conclusionOur results provide insights of unprecedented detail into the ancient biogeographical history of the Hengduanshan Biodiversity Hotspot, suggesting that past environmental changes in the region may have catalysed radiative diversifications within species much in the same way as among species.
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