The silent extinction: climate change and the potential hybridization-mediated extinction of endemic high-mountain plants

Verfasser / Beitragende:
[José Gómez, Adela González-Megías, Juan Lorite, Mohamed Abdelaziz, Francisco Perfectti]
Ort, Verlag, Jahr:
2015
Enthalten in:
Biodiversity and Conservation, 24/8(2015-08-01), 1843-1857
Format:
Artikel (online)
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245 0 4 |a The silent extinction: climate change and the potential hybridization-mediated extinction of endemic high-mountain plants  |h [Elektronische Daten]  |c [José Gómez, Adela González-Megías, Juan Lorite, Mohamed Abdelaziz, Francisco Perfectti] 
520 3 |a Most global-warming models predict an altitudinal movement of plants. This upward migration of lowland species will surely result in contact with related species inhabiting high-mountain ecosystems. We propose that an overlooked consequence of this upland movement is the possibility for interspecific hybridization between narrowly endemic alpine plants and widely distributed lowland plants. Genetic swamping due to introgressive hybridization might even lead to the genetic extinction of the endemic species, without any apparent detrimental demographic effect. Unfortunately, this phenomenon has long been ignored in the ecological literature, probably because is widely assumed that the ecological effects of climate change are more detrimental than its genetic effects. We tested our idea by searching for human-induced hybridization in a worldwide hotspot biodiversity, the high-mountains of the Sierra Nevada (south-eastern Spain). About 25% of the endemic flora is already hybridizing in these mountains, mostly with widespread lowland congeners. Some species are even already threatened due to genetic swamping. It is thereby urgent including in future conservation agendas a protocol for detecting and monitoring positive and negative effects of genetic swamping mediated by climate change in high mountains and other sensitive ecosystems. 
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690 7 |a Altitudinal movements  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Global warming  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Introgression  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Plant conservation policy  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Sierra Nevada  |2 nationallicence 
700 1 |a Gómez  |D José  |u Departamento de Ecología Funcional y Evolutiva, Estación Experimental de Zonas Aridas (EEZA-CSIC), Ctra de Sacramento s/n, La Cañada de San Urbano, 04120, Almería, Spain  |4 aut 
700 1 |a González-Megías  |D Adela  |u Departamento de Zoología, Universidad de Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Lorite  |D Juan  |u Departamento de Botánica, Universidad de Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Abdelaziz  |D Mohamed  |u Biological and Environmental Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, FK9 4LA, Stirling, UK  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Perfectti  |D Francisco  |u Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain  |4 aut 
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