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Pedraza F, Liu H, Gawecka KA, Bascompte J. The Role of Indirect Effects in Coevolution along the Mutualism-Antagonism Continuum. Am Nat 2024; 203:28-42. [PMID: 38207144 DOI: 10.1086/727472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2024]
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AbstractThe web of interactions in a community drives the coevolution of species. Yet it is unclear how the outcome of species interactions influences the coevolutionary dynamics of communities. This is a pressing matter, as changes to the outcome of interactions may become more common with human-induced global change. Here, we combine network and evolutionary theory to explore coevolutionary outcomes in communities harboring mutualistic and antagonistic interactions. We show that as the ratio of mutualistic to antagonistic interactions decreases, selection imposed by direct partners outweighs that imposed by indirect partners. This weakening of indirect effects results in communities composed of species with dissimilar traits and fast rates of adaptation. These changes are more pronounced when specialist consumers are the first species to engage in antagonistic interactions. Hence, a shift in the outcome of species interactions may reverberate across communities and alter the direction and speed of coevolution.
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Unraveling the ecological and evolutionary impacts of a plant invader on the pollination of a native plant. Biol Invasions 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-021-02457-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Barbour MA, Greyson-Gaito CJ, Sotoodeh A, Locke B, Bascompte J. Loss of consumers constrains phenotypic evolution in the resulting food web. Evol Lett 2020; 4:266-277. [PMID: 32547786 PMCID: PMC7293086 DOI: 10.1002/evl3.170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2019] [Revised: 01/14/2020] [Accepted: 02/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The loss of biodiversity is altering the structure of ecological networks; however, we are currently in a poor position to predict how these altered communities will affect the evolution of remaining populations. Theory on fitness landscapes provides a framework for predicting how selection alters the evolutionary trajectory and adaptive potential of populations, but often treats the network of interacting populations as a “black box.” Here, we integrate ecological networks and fitness landscapes to examine how changes in food‐web structure shape phenotypic evolution. We conducted a field experiment that removed a guild of larval parasitoids that imposed direct and indirect selection pressures on an insect herbivore. We then measured herbivore survival as a function of three key phenotypic traits to estimate directional, quadratic, and correlational selection gradients in each treatment. We used these selection gradients to characterize the slope and curvature of the fitness landscape to understand the direct and indirect effects of consumer loss on phenotypic evolution. We found that the number of traits under directional selection increased with the removal of larval parasitoids, indicating evolution was more constrained toward a specific combination of traits. Similarly, we found that the removal of larval parasitoids altered the curvature of the fitness landscape in such a way that tended to decrease the evolvability of the traits we measured in the next generation. Our results suggest that the loss of trophic interactions can impose greater constraints on phenotypic evolution. This indicates that the simplification of ecological communities may constrain the adaptive potential of remaining populations to future environmental change.
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- Matthew A Barbour
- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zurich Zurich 8057 ZH Switzerland.,Department of Zoology University of British Columbia Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4 Canada
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- Department of Zoology University of British Columbia Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4 Canada.,Department of Integrative Biology University of Guelph Guelph ON N1G 2W1 Canada
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- Department of Zoology University of British Columbia Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4 Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences Humboldt State University Arcata California 95521
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zurich Zurich 8057 ZH Switzerland
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Jack CN, Friesen ML. Rapid evolution of Medicago polymorpha during invasion shifts interactions with the soybean looper. Ecol Evol 2019; 9:10522-10533. [PMID: 31632647 PMCID: PMC6787872 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2018] [Revised: 07/27/2019] [Accepted: 07/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The Enemy Release Hypothesis posits that invasion of novel habitats can be facilitated by the absence of coevolved herbivores. However, a new environment and interactions with unfamiliar herbivores may impose selection on invading plants for traits that reduce their attractiveness to herbivores or for enhanced defenses compared to native host plants, leading to a pattern similar to enemy release but driven by evolutionary change rather than ecological differences. The Shifting Defense Hypothesis posits that plants in novel habitats will shift from specialized defense mechanisms to defense mechanisms effective against generalist herbivores in the new range. We tested these ideas by comparing herbivore preference and performance of native (Eurasia)- and invasive (New World)-range Medicago polymorpha, using a generalist herbivore, the soybean looper, that co-occurs with M. polymorpha in its New World invaded range. We found that soybean loopers varied in preference and performance depending on host genotype and that overall the herbivore preferred to consume plant genotypes from naïve populations from Eurasia. This potentially suggests that range expansion of M. polymorpha into the New World has led to rapid evolution of a variety of traits that have helped multiple populations become established, including those that may allow invasive populations to resist herbivory. Thus, enemy release in a novel range can occur through rapid evolution by the plant during invasion, as predicted by the Shifting Defense Hypothesis, rather than via historical divergence.
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- Chandra N. Jack
- Department of Plant BiologyMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMichigan
- BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in ActionEast LansingMichigan
- Department of Plant PathologyWashington State UniversityPullmanWashington
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- Department of Plant BiologyMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMichigan
- BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in ActionEast LansingMichigan
- Department of Plant PathologyWashington State UniversityPullmanWashington
- Department of Crop and Soil SciencesWashington State UniversityPullmanWashington
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Bonte D, Masier S, Mortier F. Eco-evolutionary feedbacks following changes in spatial connectedness. CURRENT OPINION IN INSECT SCIENCE 2018; 29:64-70. [PMID: 30551827 DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2018.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2018] [Revised: 06/15/2018] [Accepted: 06/20/2018] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Humans are drastically changing the spatial configuration of habitats. The associated changes in habitat connectedness impose strong selection on dispersal, and dispersal related traits. Evolutionary responses do, however, strongly feedback on the metapopulation dynamics, by further constraining or improving connectivity and impacting local population and food web dynamics. Because these spatial eco-evolutionary interactions occur at contemporary time scales, unique evidence on its importance is especially emerging in the field of entomology as many insects have short generation times and a huge reproductive potential. We review the ecological feedbacks originating from the evolution of dispersal rate, dispersal syndromes and genetic diversity on metapopulation dynamics and range expansions. We thus close the eco-evolutionary loop for insect and arachnid spatial dynamics.
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- Dries Bonte
- Ghent University, Dept. of Biology, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium.
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- Ghent University, Dept. of Biology, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Ghent University, Dept. of Biology, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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Most species have one or more natural enemies, e.g., predators, parasites, pathogens, and herbivores, among others. These species in turn typically attack multiple victim species. This leads to the possibility of indirect interactions among those victims, both positive and negative. The term apparent competition commonly denotes negative indirect interactions between victim species that arise because they share a natural enemy. This indirect interaction, which in principle can be reflected in many facets of the distribution and abundance of individual species and more broadly govern the structure of ecological communities in time and space, pervades many natural ecosystems. It also is a central theme in many applied ecological problems, including the control of agricultural pests, harvesting, the conservation of endangered species, and the dynamics of emerging diseases. At one end of the scale of life, apparent competition characterizes intriguing aspects of dynamics within individual organisms—for example, the immune system is akin in many ways to a predator that can induce negative indirect interactions among different pathogens. At intermediate scales of biological organization, the existence and strength of apparent competition depend upon many contingent details of individual behavior and life history, as well as the community and spatial context within which indirect interactions play out. At the broadest scale of macroecology and macroevolution, apparent competition may play a major, if poorly understood, role in the evolution of species’ geographical ranges and adaptive radiations.
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- Robert D. Holt
- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 USA
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, United Kingdom
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Essl F, Hulme PE, Jeschke JM, Keller R, Pyšek P, Richardson DM, Saul WC, Bacher S, Dullinger S, Estévez RA, Kueffer C, Roy HE, Seebens H, Rabitsch W. Scientific and Normative Foundations for the Valuation of Alien-Species Impacts: Thirteen Core Principles. Bioscience 2016. [DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biw160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Heckel CD, Kalisz S. Life history trait divergence among populations of a non‐palatable species reveals strong non‐trophic indirect effects of an abundant herbivore. OIKOS 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/oik.03658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Christopher D. Heckel
- Dept of Biological Sciences Univ. of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA 15260 USA
- Hillsdale College 33 E. College St Hillsdale MI 49242 USA
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- Dept of Biological Sciences Univ. of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA 15260 USA
- Carnegie Museum of Natural History Pittsburgh PA USA
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Smith DS, Lau MK, Jacobs R, Monroy JA, Shuster SM, Whitham TG. Rapid plant evolution in the presence of an introduced species alters community composition. Oecologia 2015; 179:563-72. [PMID: 26062439 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-015-3362-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2014] [Accepted: 05/29/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Because introduced species may strongly interact with native species and thus affect their fitness, it is important to examine how these interactions can cascade to have ecological and evolutionary consequences for whole communities. Here, we examine the interactions among introduced Rocky Mountain elk, Cervus canadensis nelsoni, a common native plant, Solidago velutina, and the diverse plant-associated community of arthropods. While introduced species are recognized as one of the biggest threats to native ecosystems, relatively few studies have investigated an evolutionary mechanism by which introduced species alter native communities. Here, we use a common garden design that addresses and supports two hypotheses. First, native S. velutina has rapidly evolved in the presence of introduced elk. We found that plants originating from sites with introduced elk flowered nearly 3 weeks before plants originating from sites without elk. Second, evolution of S. velutina results in a change to the plant-associated arthropod community. We found that plants originating from sites with introduced elk supported an arthropod community that had ~35 % fewer total individuals and a different species composition. Our results show that the impacts of introduced species can have both ecological and evolutionary consequences for strongly interacting species that subsequently cascade to affect a much larger community. Such evolutionary consequences are likely to be long-term and difficult to remediate.
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- David Solance Smith
- Department of Biology, Northern Arizona University, PO Box 5640, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011-5640, USA. .,Department of Biology, Denison University, PO Box 810, Granville, OH, 43023-0810, USA.
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- Department of Biology, Northern Arizona University, PO Box 5640, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011-5640, USA.,Harvard Forest, Harvard University, 324 N. Main St, Petersham, MA, 01366, USA
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- Department of Biology, Northern Arizona University, PO Box 5640, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011-5640, USA
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- Department of Biology, Northern Arizona University, PO Box 5640, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011-5640, USA.,Department of Biology, Denison University, PO Box 810, Granville, OH, 43023-0810, USA
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- Department of Biology, Northern Arizona University, PO Box 5640, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011-5640, USA
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- Department of Biology, Northern Arizona University, PO Box 5640, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011-5640, USA.,Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research, 800 S. Beaver, PO Box 6077, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011-6077, USA
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Ammunét T, Klemola T, Parvinen K. Consequences of asymmetric competition between resident and invasive defoliators: a novel empirically based modelling approach. Theor Popul Biol 2014; 92:107-17. [PMID: 24380810 DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2013.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2013] [Revised: 12/10/2013] [Accepted: 12/18/2013] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Invasive species can have profound effects on a resident community via indirect interactions among community members. While long periodic cycles in population dynamics can make the experimental observation of the indirect effects difficult, modelling the possible effects on an evolutionary time scale may provide the much needed information on the potential threats of the invasive species on the ecosystem. Using empirical data from a recent invasion in northernmost Fennoscandia, we applied adaptive dynamics theory and modelled the long term consequences of the invasion by the winter moth into the resident community. Specifically, we investigated the outcome of the observed short-term asymmetric preferences of generalist predators and specialist parasitoids on the long term population dynamics of the invasive winter moth and resident autumnal moth sharing these natural enemies. Our results indicate that coexistence after the invasion is possible. However, the outcome of the indirect interaction on the population dynamics of the moth species was variable and the dynamics might not be persistent on an evolutionary time scale. In addition, the indirect interactions between the two moth species via shared natural enemies were able to cause asynchrony in the population cycles corresponding to field observations from previous sympatric outbreak areas. Therefore, the invasion may cause drastic changes in the resident community, for example by prolonging outbreak periods of birch-feeding moths, increasing the average population densities of the moths or, alternatively, leading to extinction of the resident moth species or to equilibrium densities of the two, formerly cyclic, herbivores.
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- Tea Ammunét
- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7044, SE-75007 Uppsala, Sweden; Section of Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland.
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- Section of Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland; Evolution and Ecology Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
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Moya-Laraño J, Bilbao-Castro JR, Barrionuevo G, Ruiz-Lupión D, Casado LG, Montserrat M, Melián CJ, Magalhães S. Eco-Evolutionary Spatial Dynamics. ADV ECOL RES 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-801374-8.00003-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Effects of Brassica nigra and plant–fungi interactions on the arthropod community of Deinandra fasciculata. Biol Invasions 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-013-0464-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Walsh MR. The evolutionary consequences of indirect effects. Trends Ecol Evol 2013; 28:23-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2012.08.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/29/2012] [Revised: 08/03/2012] [Accepted: 08/09/2012] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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