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Insect communities in saline waters consist of realized but not fundamental niche specialists

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dc.contributor.authorArribas, Paula
dc.contributor.authorGutiérrez Cánovas, Cayetano
dc.contributor.authorBotella Cruz, María
dc.contributor.authorCañedo Argüelles, Miguel
dc.contributor.authorCarbonell, José Antonio
dc.contributor.authorMillán, Andrés
dc.contributor.authorPallarés, Susana
dc.contributor.authorVelasco, Josefa
dc.contributor.authorSánchez Fernández, David
dc.contributor.departmentEcología e Hidrología
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-06T12:30:35Z
dc.date.available2024-02-06T12:30:35Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description©2018. This document is the Published version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. To access the final edited and published work see http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0008es
dc.description.abstractConsidering how organisms adapt to stress is essential if we are to anticipate biological responses to global change in ecosystems. Communities in stress-ful environments can potentially be assembled by specialists (i.e. species that only occur in a limited range of environmental conditions) and/or generalist species with wider environmental tolerances. We review the existing litera-ture on the salinity tolerance of aquatic insects previously identified as saline specialists because they were exclusively found in saline habitats, and explore if these saline realized niche specialists are also specialists in their fundamental niches or on the contrary are fundamental niche generalist species confined to the highest salinities they can tolerate. The results suggest that species inhabiting saline waters are generalists in their funda-mental niches, with a predominant pattern of high survival in freshwater-low salinity conditions, where their fitness tends to be similar or even higher than in saline waters. Additionally, their performance in freshwater tends to be similar to related strictly freshwater species, so no apparent trade-off of generalization is shown. These results are discussed in the frame-work of the ecological and evolutionary processes driving community assembly across the osmotic stress gradient, and their potential implications for predicting impacts from saline dilution and freshwater salinization. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Salt in freshwaters: causes, ecological consequences and future prospects’.es
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dc.identifier.citationPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374: 20180008
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0008
dc.identifier.issnPrint: 0962-8436
dc.identifier.issnElectronic: 1471-2970
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10201/138762
dc.languageenges
dc.publisherThe Royal Societyes
dc.relationSin financiación externa a la Universidades
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional*
dc.rights.accessRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.subjectosmotic stresses
dc.subjectevolutionary trade-offses
dc.subjectfreshwater salinizationes
dc.subjectaquatic macroinvertebrateses
dc.subjecthyperregulationes
dc.subject.otherCDU::5 - Ciencias puras y naturales::57 - Biologíaes
dc.titleInsect communities in saline waters consist of realized but not fundamental niche specialistses
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