Alpine travellers in the Carpathians: The story of two
rock-dwelling snails told by genes and fossils

J 2024

Alpine travellers in the Carpathians: The story of two rock-dwelling snails told by genes and fossils

HORSÁKOVÁ, Veronika, Jan DIVÍŠEK, Eva LÍZNAROVÁ, Katerina KUBIKOVA, Lucie JURICKOVA et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Alpine travellers in the Carpathians: The story of two rock-dwelling snails told by genes and fossils

Authors

HORSÁKOVÁ, Veronika (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jan DIVÍŠEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Eva LÍZNAROVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Katerina KUBIKOVA, Lucie JURICKOVA and Michal HORSÁK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Journal of Biogeography, Wiley, 2024, 0305-0270

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10510 Climatic research

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 3.900 in 2022

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14793

UT WoS

001137978600001

Keywords in English

disjunctions; habitat suitability models; land snails; phylogeography; post-glacial colonization; Pyramidula; refugia; Western Carpathians

Abstract

V originále

Aim: Various species distributed in the Alps have their disjunct occurrences in the Carpathians. Fossil evidence for some woodland snails of Alpine distribution suggests that they colonized the Carpathians during the Holocene forest optimum or later. Here, we focus on disjunct Carpathian populations of the rock-dwelling alpine snail Pyramidula saxatilis. As it occupies very stable habitats, that is, high-elevation limestone rocks, one can assume its potential survival in Carpathian refugia over the glacial period(s). For comparison, the more widespread and warm-climate P. pusilla is analysed. Location: Europe. Taxon: Pyramidula saxatilis and P. pusilla. Methods: We analysed the genetic diversity of P. saxatilis and P. pusilla populations across their entire ranges using mitochondrial DNA and nuclear DNA markers. Seven fossil mollusc successions from the area where P. saxatilis occurs in the Carpathians were analysed and dated using the radiocarbon method. Habitat suitability models of both species were calculated for selected time periods since the Last Glacial Maximum. Results: All Carpathian P. saxatilis populations were genetically homogeneous and similar to those from the Eastern Alps. In P. pusilla, we found a genetically distinct lineage in the southern Western Carpathians. Both species were found in three fossil profiles since the Middle Holocene, and in one already in the Late Glacial. Habitat suitability models suggested the fluctuations of suitable conditions in the Carpathians driven by summer precipitation, especially for P. saxatilis. Main Conclusions: Our results suggest that the Carpathian populations of P. saxatilis represent a post-LGM colonization from the Eastern Alps triggered by climatic changes, mainly by the increase in summer precipitation during the Late Glacial interstadials and Middle Holocene. The evidence for P. pusilla is similar, but also suggests rare long-term survival in the Carpathian microrefugia. The palaeoecological evidence indicates a possible threat to high-elevation species from future fluctuations in precipitation regimes.

Links

GA23-05132S, research and development project

Name: Nové kalibrační a indikační systémy pro rekonstrukci holocenního klimatu zohledňující lokální vývoj

Investor: Czech Science Foundation, New calibration and indicator systems for reconstruction of Holocene climate corrected by local habitat development

Citovat

HORSÁKOVÁ, Veronika, Jan DIVÍŠEK, Eva LÍZNAROVÁ, Katerina KUBIKOVA, Lucie JURICKOVA and Michal HORSÁK. Alpine travellers in the Carpathians: The story of two rock-dwelling snails told by genes and fossils. Journal of Biogeography. Wiley, 2024, vol. 51, No 9, p. 1693-1708. ISSN 0305-0270. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14793.

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HORSÁKOVÁ, Veronika, Jan DIVÍŠEK, Eva LÍZNAROVÁ, Katerina KUBIKOVA, Lucie JURICKOVA and Michal HORSÁK. Alpine travellers in the Carpathians: The story of two rock-dwelling snails told by genes and fossils. \textit{Journal of Biogeography}. Wiley, 2024, vol.~51, No~9, p.~1693-1708. ISSN~0305-0270. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14793.

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