Geometry and evolution of the ecological niche in plant-associated microbes
dc.contributor.author | Chaloner, TM | |
dc.contributor.author | Gurr, SJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Bebber, DP | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-07-27T13:27:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-06-11 | |
dc.description.abstract | The ecological niche can be thought of as a volume in multidimensional space, where each dimension describes an abiotic condition or biotic resource required by a species. The shape, size, and evolution of this volume strongly determine interactions among species and influence their current and potential geographical distributions, but the geometry of niches is poorly understood. Here, we analyse temperature response functions and host plant ranges for hundreds of potentially destructive plant-associated fungi and oomycetes. We demonstrate that niche specialization is uncorrelated on abiotic (i.e. temperature response) and biotic (i.e. host range) axes, that host interactions restrict fundamental niche breadth to form the realized niche, and that both abiotic and biotic niches show limited phylogenetic constraint. The ecological terms ‘generalist’ and ‘specialist’ therefore do not apply to these microbes, as specialization evolves independently on different niche axes. This adaptability makes plant pathogens a formidable threat to agriculture and forestry. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | BBSRC | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | CIFAR | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 11, 2955 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/s41467-020-16778-5 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | BB/M009122/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | BB/N020847/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/122168 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Nature Research | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2020. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Fungal ecology | en_GB |
dc.subject | Microbial ecology | en_GB |
dc.subject | Evolutionary ecology | en_GB |
dc.title | Geometry and evolution of the ecological niche in plant-associated microbes | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2020-07-27T13:27:02Z | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available from Nature Research via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2041-1723 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Nature Communications | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2020-05-21 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2020-05-21 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2020-07-27T13:22:52Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2020-07-27T13:27:10Z | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |
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