10.5061/DRYAD.FD3KJ
Potter, Sally
Australian National University
Xue, Alexander T.
City University of New York
Queens College, CUNY
Rutgers University
Bragg, Jason G.
Australian National University
Rosauer, Dan F.
Australian National University
Roycroft, Emily J.
University of Melbourne
Moritz, Craig
Australian National University
Data from: Pleistocene climatic changes drive diversification across a
tropical savanna
Dryad
dataset
2017
Carlia munda
Carlia gracilis
tropics
comparative phylogeography
Carlia amax
Carlia rufilatus
2017-12-05T14:46:10Z
2017-12-05T14:46:10Z
en
https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14441
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CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication
Spatial responses of species to past climate change depend on both
intrinsic traits (climatic niche breadth, dispersal rates) and the scale
of climatic fluctuations across the landscape. New capabilities in
generating and analysing population genomic data, along with spatial
modelling, have unleashed our capacity to infer how past climate changes
have shaped populations, and by extension, complex communities. Combining
these approaches, we uncover lineage diversity across four co-distributed
lizards from the Australian Monsoonal Tropics and explore how varying
climatic tolerances interact with regional climate history to generate
common versus disparate responses to late Pleistocene change. We find more
divergent spatial structuring and temporal demographic responses in the
drier Kimberley region compared to the more mesic and consistently
suitable Top End. We hypothesize that, in general, the effects of species’
traits on sensitivity to climate fluctuation will be more evident in
climatically marginal regions. If true, this points to the need in
climatically marginal areas to craft more species- (or trait-) specific
strategies for persistence under future climate change.
Comparative demographics of rainbow skinksThis is a compressed zip file of
all the datasets and scripts used in this study grouped by analysis or
dataset.Dryad Carlia 2017.zip
Australian Monsoonal Tropics