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Landscape configuration determines gene flow and phenotype in a flightless forest-edge ground-dwelling bush-cricket, Pholidoptera griseoaptera

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Spatial configuration of habitats influences genetic structure and population fitness whereas it affects mainly species with limited dispersal ability. To reveal how habitat fragmentation determines dispersal and dispersal-related morphology in a ground-dispersing insect species we used a bush-cricket (Pholidoptera griseoaptera) which is associated with forest-edge habitat. We analysed spatial genetic patterns together with variability of the phenotype in two forested landscapes with different levels of fragmentation. While spatial configuration of forest habitats did not negatively affect genetic characteristics related to the fitness of sampled populations, genetic differentiation was found higher among populations from an extensive forest. Compared to an agricultural matrix between forest patches, the matrix of extensive forest had lower permeability and posed barriers for the dispersal of this species. Landscape configuration significantly affected also morphological traits that are supposed to account for species dispersal potential; individuals from fragmented forest patches had longer hind femurs and a higher femur to pronotum ratio. This result suggests that selection pressure act differently on populations from both landscape types since dispersal-related morphology was related to the level of habitat fragmentation. Thus observed patterns may be explained as plastic according to the level of landscape configuration; while anthropogenic fragmentation of habitats for this species can lead to homogenization of spatial genetic structure.

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We are deeply grateful to two anonymous reviewers for their extensive and useful comments on an earlier version of the manuscript. This work was funded by Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV-0497-10) and Slovak Scientific Grant Agency (VEGA 2/0157/11).

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  1. Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Ľ. Štúra 2, 960 53, Zvolen, Slovakia

    Peter Kaňuch, Benjamín Jarčuška, Anna Sliacka & Anton Krištín

  2. Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, T. G. Masaryka 24, 960 53, Zvolen, Slovakia

    Dušana Schlosserová & Ladislav Paule

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Kaňuch, P., Jarčuška, B., Schlosserová, D. et al. Landscape configuration determines gene flow and phenotype in a flightless forest-edge ground-dwelling bush-cricket, Pholidoptera griseoaptera . Evol Ecol 26, 1331–1343 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-012-9571-5

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