Local adaptation to climate anomalies relates to species phylogeny

Melero, Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4337-1448, Evans, L. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8649-0589, Kuussaari, M., Schmucki, R., Stefanescu, C., Roy, D. B. and Oliver, T. H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4169-7313 (2022) Local adaptation to climate anomalies relates to species phylogeny. Communications Biology, 5. 143. ISSN 2399-3642 doi: 10.1038/s42003-022-03088-3

Abstract/Summary

Climatic anomalies are increasing in intensity and frequency due to rapid rates of global change, leading to increased extinction risk for many species. The impacts of anomalies are likely to vary between species due to different degrees of sensitivity and extents of local adaptation. Here, we used long-term butterfly monitoring data of 143 species across six European bioclimatic regions to show how species’ population dynamics have responded to local or globally-calculated climatic anomalies, and how species attributes mediate these responses. Contrary to expectations, degree of apparent local adaptation, estimated from the relative population sensitivity to local versus global anomalies, showed no associations with species mobility or reproductive rate but did contain a strong phylogenetic signal. The existence of phylogenetically-patterned local adaptation to climate has important implications for forecasting species responses to current and future climatic conditions and for developing appropriate conservation practices.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/102763
Identification Number/DOI	10.1038/s42003-022-03088-3
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Biological Sciences > Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Publisher	Nature Research
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