Ecological niche modelling and climate change in two species groups of huntsman spider genus Eusparassus in the Western Palearctic.

ABSTRACT: The huntsman spiders' genus Eusparassus are apex arthropod predators in desert ecosystems of the Afrotropical and Palearctic ecoregions. The Eusparassus dufouri and E. walckenaeri clades are two distinct taxonomic, phylogenetic, and geographic units concerning morphology, molecular phylogeny, and spatial data; but little is known about their ecological niche. We applied the maximum-entropy approach and modelled ecologic niches of these two phylogenetically closely related clades. Ecological niches of the two clades were compared using identity and background tests and two different metrics, the Schooner's D and Warren's I. We also predicted the impacts of climate change on the distribution of the two clades. The results of the identity test showed that the ecological niches of the two clad

SUBMITTER: Moradmand M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8907240 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature