Project information
Boreal land snail diversification promoted by isolation through space and time
- Project Identification
- GA20-18827S
- Project Period
- 1/2020 - 12/2022
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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Czech Science Foundation
- Standard Projects
- MU Faculty or unit
- Faculty of Science
This project will consider the fundamental drivers underlying boreal fauna diversification by investigating the dramatic biogeographic transition in the boreal North Atlantic between the European and eastern North American terrestrial gastropod provinces. This research will determine how much of species and genetic turnover is correlated to environment vs. geography, in particular ocean and ice sheet barriers. The Greenland Ice Sheet is the only place in the modern world where the effectiveness of ice barriers on biological isolation and allopatric speciation can still be observed. We will then use this data to document the role of isolation barriers over deeper macroevolutionary time scales by predicting range limits and dispersal barriers in the Late Glacial Maximum (LGM). These insights can then be used to inform optimum conservation strategies for boreal biodiversity in the face of unprecedented global climate change.
Publications
Total number of publications: 13
2024
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Intercontinental dispersal and niche fidelity drive 50 million years of global diversification in Vertigo; land snails
Global ecology and biogeography, year: 2024, volume: 33, edition: 5, DOI
2023
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Trophic niche size and overlap in temperate forest land snails are affected by their lifestyle and body size
Contributions to Zoology, year: 2023, volume: 92, edition: 1, DOI
2022
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Deciphering “cryptic” nature of European rock-dwelling Pyramidula snails (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)
Contributions to Zoology, year: 2022, volume: 91, edition: 4-5, DOI
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Ecological niche divergence between extant and glacial land snail populations explained
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, year: 2022, volume: 12, edition: 1, DOI
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Oxygen isotopes of land snail shells in high latitude regions
Quaternary Science Reviews, year: 2022, volume: 279, edition: MAR, DOI
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The impact of empirically unverified taxonomic concepts on ecological assemblage patterns across multiple spatial scales
Ecography, year: 2022, volume: 2022, edition: 5, DOI
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The nature of dispersal barriers and their impact on regional species pool richness and turnover
Global ecology and biogeography, year: 2022, volume: 31, edition: 8, DOI
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Unravelling morphological overlap of the rock-dwelling snails Pyramidula saxatilis (Hartmann, 1842) and P. pusilla (Vallot, 1801)
Journal of Molluscan Studies, year: 2022, volume: 88, edition: 3, DOI
2021
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Biotic homogenization or riparian refugia? Urban and wild land snail assemblages along a subtropical precipitation gradient
Journal of Urban Ecology, year: 2021, volume: 7, edition: 1, DOI
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Invasion at the population level: a story of the freshwater snails Gyraulus parvus and G. laevis
Hydrobiologia, year: 2021, volume: 848, edition: 19, DOI