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Topology and habitat assortativity drive neutral and adaptive diversification in spatial graphs

View ORCID ProfileVictor Boussange, View ORCID ProfileLoïc Pellissier
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.06.451404
Victor Boussange
aSwiss Federal Research Institute WSL, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
bLandscape Ecology, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, Department of Environmental System Science, ETH Zürich, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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Loïc Pellissier
aSwiss Federal Research Institute WSL, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
bLandscape Ecology, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, Department of Environmental System Science, ETH Zürich, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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Abstract

Biodiversity results from differentiation mechanisms developing within biological populations. Such mechanisms are influenced by the properties of the landscape over which individuals interact, disperse and evolve. Notably, landscape connectivity and habitat heterogeneity constrain the movement and survival of individuals, thereby promoting differentiation through drift and local adaptation. Nevertheless, the complexity of landscape features can blur our understanding of how they drive differentiation. Here, we formulate a stochastic, eco-evolutionary model where individuals are structured over a graph that captures complex connectivity patterns and accounts for habitat heterogeneity. Individuals possess neutral and adaptive traits, whose divergence results in differentiation at the population level. The modelling framework enables an analytical underpinning of emerging macroscopic properties, which we complement with numerical simulations to investigate how the graph topology and the spatial habitat distribution affect differentiation. We show that in the absence of selection, graphs with high characteristic length and high heterogeneity in degree promote neutral differentiation. Habitat assortativity, a metric that captures habitat spatial autocorrelation in graphs, additionally drives differentiation patterns under habitat-dependent selection. While assortativity systematically amplifies adaptive differentiation, it can foster or depress neutral differentiation depending on the migration regime. By formalising the eco-evolutionary and spatial dynamics of biological populations in complex landscapes, our study establishes the link between landscape features and the emergence of diversification, contributing to a fundamental understanding of the origin of biodiversity gradients.

Significance statement It is not clear how landscape connectivity and habitat heterogeneity influence differentiation in biological populations. To obtain a mechanistic understanding of underlying processes, we construct an individualbased model that accounts for eco-evolutionary and spatial dynamics over graphs. Individuals possess both neutral and adaptive traits, whose co-evolution results in differentiation at the population level. In agreement with empirical studies, we show that characteristic length, heterogeneity in degree and habitat assortativity drive differentiation. By using analytical tools that permit a macroscopic description of the dynamics, we further link differentiation patterns to the mechanisms that generate them. Our study provides support for a mechanistic understanding of how landscape features affect diversification.

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The authors have declared no competing interest.

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  • ↵2 Email: loic.pellissier{at}usys.ethz.ch

  • Supplementary Information Text updated to clarify the derivation of the deterministic approximation equations from the baseline stochastic model. Figure S12 added to illustrate the applicability of our theory to real landscapes.

  • https://gitlab.ethz.ch/publications/neutral-and-adaptive-diversification-in-spatial-graphs.git

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Topology and habitat assortativity drive neutral and adaptive diversification in spatial graphs
Victor Boussange, Loïc Pellissier
bioRxiv 2021.07.06.451404; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.06.451404
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Topology and habitat assortativity drive neutral and adaptive diversification in spatial graphs
Victor Boussange, Loïc Pellissier
bioRxiv 2021.07.06.451404; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.06.451404

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