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Spatial storage effect promotes biodiversity during adaptive radiation.

Jiaqi Tan¹, Jennifer B Rattray², Xian Yang²

¹School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, 310 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA jiaqi.tan@biology.gatech.edu.

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|July 14, 2017

Summary

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Spatial storage effects promote biodiversity in evolving bacterial communities. Intercommunity spatial heterogeneity enhances phenotypic diversity by enabling niche differentiation and negative frequency-dependent selection, crucial for species coexistence.

Keywords:

Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25 adaptive radiation frequency-dependent selection niche difference spatial storage effect

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Area of Science:

Ecology
Evolutionary Biology
Microbiology

Background:

Ecological communities exhibit high biodiversity, influenced by environmental variations.
Storage effects (temporal and spatial) can promote species coexistence and biodiversity.
Empirical evidence for spatial storage effects on biodiversity, especially over evolutionary time, is limited.

Purpose of the Study:

To experimentally investigate the role of spatial storage effects in maintaining biodiversity within evolving metacommunities.
To understand the evolutionary timescales of spatial storage effects on biodiversity.
To explore the mechanistic basis of spatial storage effects on bacterial adaptive radiation.

Main Methods:

Utilized *Pseudomonas fluorescens* SBW25 as a model organism for adaptive radiation in laboratory-evolved metacommunities.
Manipulated intercommunity spatial heterogeneity within experimental setups.
Assessed phenotypic diversity and niche differentiation among bacterial populations under varying dispersal rates.

Main Results:

Intercommunity spatial heterogeneity significantly promoted phenotypic diversity in *P. fluorescens*.
The spatial storage effect was identified as the key mechanism driving this diversity increase.
Increased niche differences and negative frequency-dependent selection were observed in heterogeneous metacommunities, facilitating coexistence.

Conclusions:

Spatial storage effects are crucial for maintaining biodiversity in evolving metacommunities.
Intercommunity spatial heterogeneity drives biodiversity by promoting niche differentiation and coexistence.
This study provides the first experimental evidence for the role of spatial storage effects in biodiversity maintenance over evolutionary timescales.