variation within and between closely related species uncovers high intra-specific variability in dispersal变化密切相关的物种之间的内部和揭示高分散的种内变异.pdfVIP

Variation within and between Closely Related Species Uncovers High Intra-Specific Variability in Dispersal 1,2 . 3. 2,4. Virginie M. Stevens * , Sandrine Pavoine , Michel Baguette ´ ` ´ ` ´ 1 F.R.S.-FNRS and Universite de Liege, Unite de biologie du comportement, Liege, Belgium, 2 UMR CNRS-MNHN 7179, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Brunoy, ´ ´ ´ France, 3 UMR CNRS-MNHN 7204, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Departement d’Ecologie et Gestion de la biodiversite, Paris, France, 4 USR CNRS 2936 Station ´ ` d’Ecologie Experimentale du CNRS a Moulis, Saint-Girons, France Abstract Mounting evidence shows that contrasting selection pressures generate variability in dispersal patterns among individuals or populations of the same species, with potential impacts on both species dynamics and evolution. However, this variability is hardly considered in empirical works, where a single dispersal function is considered to adequately reflect the species-specific dispersal ability, suggesting thereby that within-species variation is negligible as regard to inter-specific differences in dispersal abilities. We propose here an original method to make the comparison of intra- and inter-specific variability in dispersal, by decomposing the diversity of that trait along a phylogeny of closely related species. We used as test group European butterflies that are classic study organisms in spatial ecology. We apply the analysis separately to eight me