title: Ecological differentiation and habitat unsuitability maintaining a ground beetle hybrid zone.
abstract: Exogenous selection via interactions between organisms and environments may influence the dynamics of hybrid zones between species in multiple ways. Two major models of a hybrid zone allowed us to hypothesize that environmental conditions influence hybrid zone dynamics in two ways. In the first model, an environmental gradient determines the mosaic distribution at the boundary between ecologically differentiated species (mosaic hybrid zone model). In the second model, a patch of unsuitable habitat traps a hybrid zone between species whose hybrids are unfit (tension zone model). To test these, we examined the environmental factors influencing the spatial structure of a hybrid zone between the ground beetles Carabus maiyasanus and C. iwawakianus using GIS-based quantification of environmental factors and a statistical comparison of species distribution models (SDMs). We determined that both of the hypothetical processes can be important in the hybrid zone. We detected interspecific differences in the environmental factors in presence localities and their relative contribution in SDMs. SDMs were not identical between species even within contact areas, but tended to be similar within the range of each species. These results suggest an association between environments and species, and provide evidence that ecological differentiation between species plays a role in the maintenance of the hybrid zone. Contact areas were characterized by a relatively high temperature, low precipitation, and high topological wetness. Thus, the contact areas were regarded as being located in an unsuitable habitat with a drier climate, where those populations are likely to occur in patches with limited precipitation concentrated. A comparison of spatial scales suggests that exogenous selection via environmental factors may be weaker than endogenous selection via genitalic incompatibility.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Human Development and Environment Kobe University Tsurukabuto 3-11, Nada Kobe 657-8501 Japan.
authors.forename: Yasuoki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takami
authors.affiliation: Nanional Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences Tsukuba Ibaraki Japan; Japan Node of Global Biodiversity Information Facility Tsukuba Ibaraki Japan.
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Osawa
keywords: Ecological differentiation; Ohomopterus; geographic information system; reproductive isolation; species distribution model
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