dated molecular phylogenies. Ref: Roquet, C., Thuiller,W.,and Lavergne,S. (2012). Building megaphylogenies for macroecology: taking up the challenge. Ecography, 36(1):013-‐026. Niche Niches are inferred by combining a) species distribuLon maps with b) climaLc layers (temperature, precipitaLon, etc). Predicted absence Predicted presence a) Species distribuLon b) ClimaLc layers Raw data representaLon of the niche Niche model Mean value EnLre area Occupied area Number of sites Niche sta*s*cs • Mean, min, max • EnLre distribuLon • … Note: the parameters finally obtained from different approaches may differ (mean value in this example). + Occurrence probability 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 °C 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 °C Chronogram • Niche models are preferable to raw data representaLons • The mean value is not always the opLmal staLsLc; reconstrucLng the whole distribuLon is more desirable 2 Choosing the best model Time CONSTANT RATE OF EVOLUTION Brownian motion (BM) Orstein-Uhlenbeck with single optimum (OU) OU with n selective optima (OUn ) TIME-DEPENDENT RATE OF EVOLUTION Niche filling models Early burst (EB) decelerating rates ACDC BM + accelerating/decelerating Pagel’s δ accelerating/decelerating • Random drift • Random punctuated change • Stabilizing selection/ stasis • Stabilizing selection with clade-specific optima • Character displacement/ Adaptive radiation/ Divergence • Decelerating evolution EVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES EVOLUTIONARY MODELS I. Identifying plausible evolutionary processes BM OUn EB BM OUn EB LogL -‐36 -‐30 -‐32 AIC -‐35 -‐38 -‐37 BIC -‐37 -‐42 -‐40 3 Reconstructing the past Model-‐free1 Model-‐based methods WSqCP/PIC = ML/GLS + BM ≅ Bayesian + BM WSqCP + OU tree = ML/GLS + OU ≅ Bayesian + OU II. Model fitting III. Model evaluation Ancestral niche reconstruction – time machine user manual Lara Budic and Carsten F. Dormann, Department of Biometry and Environmental System Analysis, University of Freiburg, Germany,
[email protected] 1Model-free methods (independent contrasts and weighted squared-change parsimony) implicitly assume Brownian motion model of evolution. When inferring ancestral values that evolved under other models, the tree is rescaled accordingly. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Cacao_spe... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Caca Current range Ancestral range Present-day map Paleoclimatic map Fossil records Paleoclimatic map http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Cacao_spe... • Check whether reconstructed climate values match with paleoclimate data. • Ancestral species range should be projected to paleoclimatic maps. • When available, fossil records can prove species presence in the study area and/or in the predicted ancestral range. 4 Validation 2 1 4 4 9 5 6 8 3 5 4 7 6 4 5 3 2 2 7 7 6 5 5 6 6 5.5 6 5 Reconstructiong ancestral temperature values Present day values Ancestral values Budic, L. and Dormann, C.F. (2013) The challenging task of reconstructing the ancestral climate niche: a review of approaches and steps towards a best practice (submitted) Pagel, M. et al. (1999). Inferring the historical pacerns of biological evoluLon. Nature, 401(6756):877–884. Evans, M., Smith, S., Flynn, R., and Donoghue, M. (2009). Climate, niche evoluLon, and diversificaLon of the ”bird-‐cage” evening primroses (Oenothera, SecLons Anogra and Kleinia). The American Naturalist, 173(2):225–240 (If possible…) Temperature Temperature