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Record W4415666478 · doi:10.1080/17550874.2025.2571098

Phylogeography of Arctic plants: where are we after 35 years, and where to go?

2025· article· en· W4415666478 on OpenAlexaff
Christian Brochmann, Cassandra Elphinstone, Siri Birkeland, Hajíme Ikeda, Pernille Bronken Eidesen, Inger Greve Alsos, Kristine Bakke Westergaard

Bibliographic record

VenuePlant Ecology & Diversity · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicBryophyte Studies and Records
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPhylogeographyArcticEctothermThe arcticClimate changeArctic ecology

Abstract

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Background The Arctic provides an excellent system to study climate change effects on geographic ranges and genetic diversity. We re-examine the large number of phylogeographic studies of Arctic plants to assess general patterns and identify knowledge gaps.Aims To synthesise advances and address century-old controversies, e.g. is it necessary to invoke separate glacial refugia to explain Arctic disjunctions?Methods We undertook a literature survey of the phylogeography of Arctic vascular plants.Results We provide a list of 88 taxa studied, representing a striking diversity of phylogeographic histories. In many widespread species, recent trans-oceanic long-distance dispersal (LDD) is sufficient to explain disjunctions, but three rare species show clear signals of separate Scandinavian and American glacial refugia. The extreme bipolar disjunctions are apparently caused by Plio-Pleistocene LDDs. Beringia and western Siberia have served as long-standing northern refugia; in contrast, North Atlantic areas harbour much less genetic diversity and distinctiveness. The genomic era is now providing evidence for multiple refugia from modern and ancient DNA and demonstrating that selfing leads to high biological species diversity within taxonomically recognised species.Conclusions More extensive sampling, reference genomes, and population genomic studies are required for in-depth understanding of past distributions, dispersal routes, and ability to track ongoing climate change.

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Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.028
Threshold uncertainty score0.057

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.003
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.181
Teacher spread0.173 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

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Published2025
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