Different Ecological Niches of Poisonous Aristolochia clematitis in Central and Marginal Distribution Ranges—Another Contribution to a Better Understanding of Balkan Endemic Nephropathy-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Different Ecological Niches of Poisonous Aristolochia clematitis in Central and Marginal Distribution Ranges—Another Contribution to a Better Understanding of Balkan Endemic Nephropathy

Published:2023-08-22 Issue:17 Volume:12 Page:3022
ISSN:2223-7747
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Author:

Brzić Ivan¹²,Brener Magdalena³,Čarni Andraž⁴⁵^ORCID,Ćušterevska Renata⁶^ORCID,Čulig Borna⁷,Dziuba Tetiana⁸^ORCID,Golub Valentin⁹^ORCID,Irimia Irina¹⁰,Jelaković Bojan¹¹,Kavgacı Ali¹²^ORCID,Krstivojević Ćuk Mirjana¹³^ORCID,Krstonošić Daniel³,Stupar Vladimir¹⁴^ORCID,Trobonjača Zlatko²,Škvorc Željko³^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Municipality of Bebrina, 35254 Bebrina, Croatia

2. School of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Braće Branchetta 20/1, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia

3. Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, University of Zagreb, Svetošimunska 23, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

4. Institute of Biology, Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Novi Trg 2, SI 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

5. School for Viticulture and Enology, University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska 13, SI 5000 Nova Gorica, Slovenia

6. Institute of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, 1000 Skopje, North Macedonia

7. Faculty of Medicine, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Josipa Huttlera 4, 31000 Osijek, Croatia

8. M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 01004 Kyiv, Ukraine

9. Institute of Ecology of the Volga Basin, Samara Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 445003 Togliatti, Russia

10. Faculty of Biology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, 20A Carol I Blvd., 700506 Iași, Romania

11. Department of Nephrology, Hypertension, Dialysis and Transplantation, University Hospital Center Zagreb, School of Medicine University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

12. Burdur Food Agriculture and Livestock Vocational School, Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, 15030 Burdur, Turkey

13. Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 2, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia

14. Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry, University of Banja Luka, S. Stepanovića 75A, 78000 Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Abstract

Aristolochia clematitis L. is a perennial herbaceous plant distributed throughout Europe, Asia Minor and Caucasus. It has been used as a medicinal plant since antiquity but not in recent times because it contains poisonous aristolochic acid, causing progressive kidney failure. The aim of this work was to study Aristolochia clematitis ecology on the basis of vegetation plots from the European Vegetation Archive, and to investigate the differentiation of its ecological niche using a co-occurrence-based measure of ecological specialization (ESI). The ecological niche was studied on three spatial scales: on the entire distribution area, its differentiation across 200 × 200 km grid cells and the differences between three central and three marginal regions. Our results suggest that Aristolochia clematitis has a very broad ecological niche occurring in a range of different habitats and climatic conditions, with a trend of a niche width decrease with the distance from the geographical center. The plant prefers more stable communities with less anthropogenic influence moving towards the margin of the distribution area. Specialization towards the marginal area is a result of evolutionary history, which refers to the recent anthropogenically induced spread from its original home range. A high incidence of Aristolochia clematitis in the vegetation of arable lands and market gardens as well as anthropogenic herbaceous vegetation in the distribution center corresponds to the geographical incidence of Balkan Endemic Nephropathy.

Funder

Slovenian Research Agency

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Plant Science,Ecology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/12/17/3022/pdf

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