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Hunn JG, Orr JA, Kelly AM, Piggott JJ, Matthaei CD. Heatwaves and carbon dioxide enrichment impact invertebrate drift and insect emergence patterns across time in experimental streams. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 939:173106. [PMID: 38754515 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2023] [Revised: 04/11/2024] [Accepted: 05/07/2024] [Indexed: 05/18/2024]
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Climate change and human land use are considered key threats to freshwater invertebrates. Heatwaves can impact the phenology of insects and population dynamics, yet have been largely ignored in experiments compared to mean temperature changes. Another major anthropogenic stressor driving invertebrate community changes is deposited fine sediment; therefore, effects of key climate-change drivers on invertebrate drift and insect emergence rates may differ between sediment-impacted and non-impacted streams. However, this has never been tested in a realistic outdoor experiment. We investigated the individual and combined effects of two 7-day heatwaves, CO2 enrichment, flow velocity variability (periods of fast and slow) and fine sediment on stream drift and emergence responses, sampled four times during a 7-week experiment in 128 flow-through stream mesocosms. We examined invertebrate drift and insect emergence responses to the four stressors, and used these responses to help explain the benthic invertebrate community responses already assessed (sampled at the end of the experiment). Heatwave 1 strongly increased emergence (dominated by Chironomidae), causing an earlier emergence peak, an effect not repeated during heatwave 2, seven days later. During heatwave 1, emerged chironomids were larger in heated channels, but smaller in heated channels afterwards, suggesting a different effect on body size of short-term heatwaves to previous constant warming experiments. CO2 enrichment reduced drifting EPT and total and Chironomidae emergence on three sampling occasions each. After heatwave 1, total drift and total emergence were strongly reduced by heating in ambient-CO2 channels, whereas no reduction occurred in CO2-enriched channels. During heatwave 2, total drift increased in channels without sediment but not in channels with added sediment. Overall, our findings suggest heatwaves can shift the timing of stream insect emergence, regardless of longer-term mean temperatures. They also show that heatwaves, raised CO2, and fine sediment can modulate each others' effects on drift and emergence dynamics.
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- Julia G Hunn
- Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
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- Zoology, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand; Zoology, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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Bagni T, Bouanou M, Siaussat D, Maria A, Fuentes A, Couzi P, Massot M. Daily temperature fluctuation interacts with the mean temperature to increase the toxicity of a pyrethroid insecticide in a moth. CHEMOSPHERE 2024; 356:141888. [PMID: 38582169 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.141888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2023] [Revised: 10/25/2023] [Accepted: 04/01/2024] [Indexed: 04/08/2024]
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Climate change complicates ecotoxicology studies because species responses to pesticides depend on temperature. Classically illustrated by the effect of constant laboratory temperatures, a recent review revealed that the toxicity of pesticides is also often increased by daily temperature fluctuations. Here, we investigated the combined effects of daily temperature fluctuation and mean temperature on the toxicity of two insecticides in the moth Spodoptera littoralis. Our study tested the toxicity of chlorpyrifos and deltamethrin on larvae of six experimental groups that crossed three treatments of daily temperature fluctuations (0, 5 or 10 °C) and two treatments of mean temperatures (25 or 33 °C). We showed that daily temperature fluctuation increased larval mortality induced by chlorpyrifos and deltamethrin. However, the response differed between the organophosphorus insecticide chlorpyrifos and the pyrethroid insecticide deltamethrin. The increase in chlorpyrifos toxicity by daily temperature fluctuation did not differ between mean temperatures of 25 and 33 °C. Remarkably, the increase in deltamethrin toxicity by daily temperature fluctuation was dependent on the crossed effects of the amplitude of daily fluctuation and mean temperature. This increase in deltamethrin toxicity occurred with a daily fluctuation of only 5 °C for larvae reared at 25 °C and a daily fluctuation of 10 °C in larvae reared at 33 °C. To confidently quantify the responses of insecticide toxicity to temperature, future ecotoxicology studies will have to evaluate the generality of the interaction between the effects of daily temperature fluctuation and mean temperature.
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- Thibaut Bagni
- Institut d'Ecologie et des Sciences de l'Environnement de Paris (iEES-Paris), Sorbonne Université, CNRS, INRAe, IRD, Université Paris Créteil, Université Paris cité, F-75005, Paris, France.
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- Institut d'Ecologie et des Sciences de l'Environnement de Paris (iEES-Paris), Sorbonne Université, CNRS, INRAe, IRD, Université Paris Créteil, Université Paris cité, F-75005, Paris, France.
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- Institut d'Ecologie et des Sciences de l'Environnement de Paris (iEES-Paris), Sorbonne Université, CNRS, INRAe, IRD, Université Paris Créteil, Université Paris cité, F-75005, Paris, France.
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- Institut d'Ecologie et des Sciences de l'Environnement de Paris (iEES-Paris), Sorbonne Université, CNRS, INRAe, IRD, Université Paris Créteil, Université Paris cité, F-75005, Paris, France.
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- Institut d'Ecologie et des Sciences de l'Environnement de Paris (iEES-Paris), Sorbonne Université, CNRS, INRAe, IRD, Université Paris Créteil, Université Paris cité, F-75005, Paris, France.
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- Institut d'Ecologie et des Sciences de l'Environnement de Paris (iEES-Paris), Sorbonne Université, CNRS, INRAe, IRD, Université Paris Créteil, Université Paris cité, F-75005, Paris, France.
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- Institut d'Ecologie et des Sciences de l'Environnement de Paris (iEES-Paris), Sorbonne Université, CNRS, INRAe, IRD, Université Paris Créteil, Université Paris cité, F-75005, Paris, France.
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Ratz T, Chechi TS, Dimopoulou AI, Sedlmair SD, Tuni C. Heatwaves inflict reproductive but not survival costs to male insects. J Exp Biol 2024; 227:jeb246698. [PMID: 38436413 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.246698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2023] [Accepted: 02/27/2024] [Indexed: 03/05/2024]
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Climate change is having a dramatic effect on the environment, with rising global temperatures and more frequent extreme climatic events, such as heatwaves, that can hamper organisms' biological functions. Although it is clear that sudden and extreme temperatures can damage reproductive processes, there is limited understanding of the effects of heatwaves on male mating behaviour and reproductive success. We tested for the effects of heat stress induced by ecologically relevant heatwaves (33°C and 39°C for five consecutive days) on the mating behaviour, reproductive success, body mass and survival of male field crickets Gryllus bimaculatus, paired with untreated females. We predicted life-history and reproductive costs would increase with increasing heatwave intensity. Consistent with our expectations, males exposed to the highest heatwave temperature produced the fewest offspring, while having to increase courtship effort to successfully mate. Males also gained relatively more weight following heatwave exposure. Given that we found no difference in lifetime survival, our results suggest a potential trade-off in resource allocation between somatic maintenance and reproductive investment. Taken together, our findings indicate that sublethal effects of heatwaves could reduce the growth and persistence of animal populations by negatively impacting reproductive rates. These findings highlight the need for considering thermal ecologies, life history and behaviour to better understand the consequences of extreme climatic events on individuals and populations.
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- Tom Ratz
- Department of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstraße 190, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University, 58183 Linköping, Sweden
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- Department of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
- Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Via Accademia Albertina 13, 10123 Torino, Italy
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Weaving H, Terblanche JS, English S. Heatwaves are detrimental to fertility in the viviparous tsetse fly. Proc Biol Sci 2024; 291:20232710. [PMID: 38471560 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.2710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2023] [Accepted: 02/01/2024] [Indexed: 03/14/2024] Open
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Heatwaves are increasing in frequency and intensity due to climate change, pushing animals beyond physiological limits. While most studies focus on survival limits, sublethal effects on fertility tend to occur below lethal thresholds, and consequently can be as important for population viability. Typically, male fertility is more heat-sensitive than female fertility, yet direct comparisons are limited. Here, we measured the effect of experimental heatwaves on tsetse flies, Glossina pallidipes, disease vectors and unusual live-bearing insects of sub-Saharan Africa. We exposed males or females to a 3-day heatwave peaking at 36, 38 or 40°C for 2 h, and a 25°C control, monitoring mortality and reproduction over six weeks. For a heatwave peaking at 40°C, mortality was 100%, while a 38°C peak resulted in only 8% acute mortality. Females exposed to the 38°C heatwave experienced a one-week delay in producing offspring, whereas no such delay occurred in males. Over six weeks, heatwaves resulted in equivalent fertility loss in both sexes. Combined with mortality, this lead to a 10% population decline over six weeks compared to the control. Furthermore, parental heatwave exposure gave rise to a female-biased offspring sex ratio. Ultimately, thermal limits of both survival and fertility should be considered when assessing climate change vulnerability.
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- Hester Weaving
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Conservation Ecology & Entomology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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Bagni T, Siaussat D, Maria A, Fuentes A, Couzi P, Massot M. Fitness under high temperatures is overestimated when daily thermal fluctuation is ignored. J Therm Biol 2024; 119:103806. [PMID: 38335848 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2024.103806] [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] [Received: 07/07/2023] [Revised: 01/17/2024] [Accepted: 01/21/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024]
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Experimental studies on the thermal biology of organisms have become crucial to investigate the impact of climate warming. However, most laboratory studies are carried out under constant temperatures and assume a negligible effect from daily fluctuating temperatures. We tested this assumption on multiple fitness traits of the moth Spodoptera littoralis, and a literature review on insects complements this study. Tests on S. littoralis focused on its optimal and maximal critical temperatures by comparing constant and daily fluctuating temperatures (±5 °C) at mean temperatures of 25, 29 and 33 °C. The nine fitness parameters investigated were influenced by mean temperature. The overall effect was a maximal multiplication rate at 29 °C and a marked decrease under the fluctuating regime at 33 °C. Effects of fluctuating temperatures differed between mean temperatures. Developmental and larval survival rates at 33 °C were lower under the fluctuating thermal regime than under a constant temperature. Our literature review also illustrates that ignoring daily fluctuations based on constant temperatures commonly leads to overestimate fitness traits at high temperatures. Overlooking the experimental bias associated with constant temperatures minimizes the expected impact of climate warming on fitness traits.
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- Thibaut Bagni
- Institut d'Ecologie et des Sciences de l'Environnement de Paris (iEES-Paris), Sorbonne Université, CNRS, INRAe, IRD, Université Paris Créteil, Université Paris cité, F-75005, Paris, France.
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- Institut d'Ecologie et des Sciences de l'Environnement de Paris (iEES-Paris), Sorbonne Université, CNRS, INRAe, IRD, Université Paris Créteil, Université Paris cité, F-75005, Paris, France
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- Institut d'Ecologie et des Sciences de l'Environnement de Paris (iEES-Paris), Sorbonne Université, CNRS, INRAe, IRD, Université Paris Créteil, Université Paris cité, F-75005, Paris, France
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- Institut d'Ecologie et des Sciences de l'Environnement de Paris (iEES-Paris), Sorbonne Université, CNRS, INRAe, IRD, Université Paris Créteil, Université Paris cité, F-75005, Paris, France
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- Institut d'Ecologie et des Sciences de l'Environnement de Paris (iEES-Paris), Sorbonne Université, CNRS, INRAe, IRD, Université Paris Créteil, Université Paris cité, F-75005, Paris, France
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- Institut d'Ecologie et des Sciences de l'Environnement de Paris (iEES-Paris), Sorbonne Université, CNRS, INRAe, IRD, Université Paris Créteil, Université Paris cité, F-75005, Paris, France
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Earls KN, Campbell JB, Rinehart JP, Greenlee KJ. Effects of temperature on metabolic rate during metamorphosis in the alfalfa leafcutting bee. Biol Open 2023; 12:bio060213. [PMID: 38156711 PMCID: PMC10805150 DOI: 10.1242/bio.060213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2023] [Accepted: 11/15/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024] Open
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Spring conditions, especially in temperate regions, may fluctuate abruptly and drastically. Environmental variability can expose organisms to temperatures outside of their optimal thermal ranges. For ectotherms, sudden changes in temperature may cause short- and long-term physiological effects, including changes in respiration, morphology, and reproduction. Exposure to variable temperatures during active development, which is likely to occur for insects developing in spring, can cause detrimental effects. Using the alfalfa leafcutting bee, Megachile rotundata, we aimed to determine if oxygen consumption could be measured using a new system and to test the hypothesis that female and male M. rotundata have a thermal performance curve with a wide optimal range. Oxygen consumption of M. rotundata pupae was measured across a large range of temperatures (6-48°C) using an optical oxygen sensor in a closed respirometry system. Absolute and mass-specific metabolic rates were calculated and compared between bees that were extracted from their brood cells and those remaining in the brood cell to determine whether pupae could be accurately measured inside their brood cells. The metabolic response to temperature was non-linear, which is an assumption of a thermal performance curve; however, the predicted negative slope at higher temperatures was not observed. Despite sexual dimorphism in body mass, sex differences only occurred in mass-specific metabolic rates. Higher metabolic rates in males may be attributed to faster development times, which could explain why there were no differences in absolute metabolic rate measurements. Understanding the physiological and ecological effects of thermal environmental variability on M. rotundata will help to better predict their response to climate change.
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- Kayla N. Earls
- Department of Biological Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108, USA
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- Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center, US Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Station, Fargo, ND 58102,USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108, USA
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Wang Y, Shen J, Li X, Lang H, Zhang L, Fang H, Yu Y. Higher temperature and daily fluctuations aggravate clothianidin toxicity towards Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 903:166655. [PMID: 37647951 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2023] [Revised: 08/21/2023] [Accepted: 08/26/2023] [Indexed: 09/01/2023]
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In nature, aquatic organisms may suffer from chemical pollution, together with thermal stress resulted from global warming. However, limited information is available on the combined effects of pesticide with climate change on aquatic organisms. In this study, the acute toxicity of clothianidin to Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri as well as its effect on the induction of oxidative stress under both constant temperature and daily temperature fluctuation (DTF) regimes was investigated. Results showed that clothianidin exhibited the minimal toxicity to L. hoffmeisteri at 25 °C, which was magnified by both increased or decreased temperatures and 10 °C DTF. At different temperatures (15 °C, 25 °C and 35 °C), clothianidin exposure led to the elevated reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels and activated the antioxidant enzymes to resist against the oxidative stress. However, the antioxidant response induced by clothianidin was overwhelmed at high temperature as evidenced by decreased glutathione (GSH) content. Significant elevation of catalase (CAT) and peroxidase (POD) activities but depletion of GSH was also observed in worms treated with clothianidin under DTF after 24 h. The results indicated that high temperature and DTF could aggravate the clothianidin-induced oxidative stress. Moreover, the critical thermal maximum (CTmax) of the worms decreased with the increasing clothianidin concentrations, suggesting that exposure to clothianidin could reduce the heat tolerance of L. hoffmeisteri. Our work highlights the crucial importance to integrate temperature changes into risk assessment of pesticides under global warming.
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- Yingnan Wang
- Institute of Pesticide and Environmental Toxicology, the Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, College of Agricultural and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute of Pesticide and Environmental Toxicology, the Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, College of Agricultural and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute of Pesticide and Environmental Toxicology, the Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, College of Agricultural and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute of Pesticide and Environmental Toxicology, the Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, College of Agricultural and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute of Pesticide and Environmental Toxicology, the Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, College of Agricultural and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute of Pesticide and Environmental Toxicology, the Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, College of Agricultural and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute of Pesticide and Environmental Toxicology, the Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, College of Agricultural and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
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Hancock GM, Sancho G, Munch SB, Salinas S. Effects of daily thermal fluctuations on the Atlantic silverside, a fish with temperature-dependent sex determination. JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY 2023; 102:1261-1266. [PMID: 36894330 DOI: 10.1111/jfb.15372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2022] [Accepted: 03/06/2023] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) occurs when the temperature during development affects gonad determination. Historically, most work on TSD in fishes was conducted under constant temperatures, yet daily fluctuating temperatures can significantly alter fish physiology and life history. Thus, we subjected the Atlantic silverside, Menidia menidia (a TSD species), to 28, 28 ± 2 and 28 ± 4°C (a high, masculinizing temperature) and quantified sex ratios and length. We found that the percentage of females increased by 60%-70% when the fish were exposed to daily fluctuating temperatures (from 10% to 16% and 17% under fluctuations).
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- Grace M Hancock
- Department of Biology, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI, 49006, USA
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- College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, 29412, USA
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- Department of Applied Mathematics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, USA
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- Department of Biology, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI, 49006, USA
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Hector TE, Gehman ALM, King KC. Infection burdens and virulence under heat stress: ecological and evolutionary considerations. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2023; 378:20220018. [PMID: 36744570 PMCID: PMC9900716 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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As a result of global change, hosts and parasites (including pathogens) are experiencing shifts in their thermal environment. Despite the importance of heat stress tolerance for host population persistence, infection by parasites can impair a host's ability to cope with heat. Host-parasite eco-evolutionary dynamics will be affected if infection reduces host performance during heating. Theory predicts that within-host parasite burden (replication rate or number of infecting parasites per host), a key component of parasite fitness, should correlate positively with virulence-the harm caused to hosts during infection. Surprisingly, however, the relationship between within-host parasite burden and virulence during heating is often weak. Here, we describe the current evidence for the link between within-host parasite burden and host heat stress tolerance. We consider the biology of host-parasite systems that may explain the weak or absent link between these two important host and parasite traits during hot conditions. The processes that mediate the relationship between parasite burden and host fitness will be fundamental in ecological and evolutionary responses of host and parasites in a warming world. This article is part of the theme issue 'Infectious disease ecology and evolution in a changing world'.
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- T. E. Hector
- Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3SZ, UK
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- Hakai Institute, End of Kwakshua Channel, Calvert Island, BC Canada, V0N 1M0,Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC Canada, V6T 1Z4
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- Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3SZ, UK
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Ledón-Rettig CC. A transcriptomic investigation of heat-induced transgenerational plasticity in beetles. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2023. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blac151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/19/2023]
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AbstractIn response to environmental stressors, parents can shape the developmental outcomes of their offspring by contributing non-genetic but heritable factors. The transmission of such factors can potentially allow offspring, from the beginning of their lives, to express phenotypes that match their anticipated environments. In this study, I ask whether enhanced growth in larvae of Onthophagus taurus (the bull-headed dung beetle) is modified by parental exposure to heat or by exposure of the offspring to heat during early life. I find that, irrespective of the early environment of the offspring, individuals produced by parents exposed to heat grow larger. Furthermore, taking a transcriptomic approach, I find that ecdysone signalling might mediate the transgenerational effect and that increased insulin signalling or reduced production of heat shock proteins might be responsible for the enhanced growth in larvae derived from parents exposed to heat. Together, my results provide evidence for a thermally induced transgenerational effect and a foundation for functional testing of candidate mechanisms mediating the effect.
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Lima AS, de Figueredo AC, Floreste FR, Garcia Neto PG, Gomes FR, Titon SCM. Temperature Extreme Events Decrease Endocrine and Immune Reactive Scope in Bullfrogs (Lithobates catesbeianus). Integr Comp Biol 2022; 62:1671-1682. [PMID: 35771987 DOI: 10.1093/icb/icac105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2022] [Revised: 06/23/2022] [Accepted: 06/24/2022] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Currently, effects of increased atmospheric temperature, in the context of ongoing climate change, have been investigated in multiple organisms and levels of biological organization. While there has been a focus on the impacts of increased mean temperature, an emergent and equally important point is the consequences of recurrent exposure to extreme temperature events, simulating heat waves. This study investigated the effects of serial exposure to high temperatures on immune and endocrine variables before and after exposure to an acute secondary stressor in bullfrogs (Lithobates catesbeianus). Adult males were divided into three groups and subjected to three thermal regimes: control (c; constant 22°C); experimental 1 (E1; kept at 22°C and exposed to 4 days of 30°C every 16 days); and experimental 2 (E2; kept at 22°C and exposed to 4 days of 30°C every 6 days). Blood samples were collected on the last day of key extreme heat events. Two weeks after the last extreme heat event, animals were subjected to restraint stress (1 h) and sampled again. Blood samples were used to determine neutrophil: lymphocyte ratio, plasma bacterial killing ability, as well as, corticosterone and plasma testosterone levels. Overall, we found exposure to extreme heat events did not affect immune and endocrine variables over time. Meanwhile, the previous exposure to extreme heat events modulated the responsiveness to restraint. The amplitude of increased corticosterone plasma levels and neutrophil: lymphocyte ratio in response to restraint decreased with the number of previous exposures to extreme heat events. These results suggest that exposure to extreme climatic events has hidden effects on bullfrog's stress response, expressed as diminished reactive scope to a novel stressor. This represents a highly deleterious facet of climate change since diminished responsiveness prevents proper coping with wildlife challenges.
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- Alan Siqueira Lima
- Departamento de Fisiologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, trav. 14, 101, São Paulo, SP 05508-090, Brazil
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- Departamento de Fisiologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, trav. 14, 101, São Paulo, SP 05508-090, Brazil
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- Departamento de Fisiologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, trav. 14, 101, São Paulo, SP 05508-090, Brazil
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- Departamento de Fisiologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, trav. 14, 101, São Paulo, SP 05508-090, Brazil
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- Departamento de Fisiologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, trav. 14, 101, São Paulo, SP 05508-090, Brazil
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- Departamento de Fisiologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, trav. 14, 101, São Paulo, SP 05508-090, Brazil
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Turriago JL, Tejedo M, Hoyos JM, Bernal MH. The effect of thermal microenvironment in upper thermal tolerance plasticity in tropical tadpoles. Implications for vulnerability to climate warming. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY. PART A, ECOLOGICAL AND INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY 2022; 337:746-759. [PMID: 35674344 DOI: 10.1002/jez.2632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2021] [Revised: 04/09/2022] [Accepted: 05/06/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Current climate change is generating accelerated increase in extreme heat events and organismal plastic adjustments in upper thermal tolerances, (critical thermal maximum -CTmax ) are recognized as the quicker mitigating mechanisms. However, current research casts doubt on the actual mitigating role of thermal acclimation to face heat impacts, due to its low magnitude and weak environmental signal. Here, we examined these drawbacks by first estimating maximum extent of thermal acclimation by examining known sources of variation affecting CTmax expression, such as daily thermal fluctuation and heating rates. Second, we examined whether the magnitude and pattern of CTmax plasticity is dependent of the thermal environment by comparing the acclimation responses of six species of tropical amphibian tadpoles inhabiting thermally contrasting open and shade habitats and, finally, estimating their warming tolerances (WT = CTmax - maximum temperatures) as estimator of heating risk. We found that plastic CTmax responses are improved in tadpoles exposed to fluctuating daily regimens. Slow heating rates implying longer duration assays determined a contrasting pattern in CTmax plastic expression, depending on species environment. Shade habitat species suffer a decline in CTmax whereas open habitat tadpoles greatly increase it, suggesting an adaptive differential ability of hot exposed species to quick hardening adjustments. Open habitat tadpoles although overall acclimate more than shade habitat species, cannot capitalize this beneficial increase in CTmax, because the maximum ambient temperatures are very close to their critical limits, and this increase may not be large enough to reduce acute heat stress under the ongoing global warming.
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- Jorge L Turriago
- Department of Biology, Grupo de Herpetología, Eco-Fisiología & Etología, Universidad del Tolima, Tolima, Colombia
- Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Sevilla, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Grupo UNESIS, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Department of Biology, Grupo de Herpetología, Eco-Fisiología & Etología, Universidad del Tolima, Tolima, Colombia
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Verheyen J, Delnat V, Theys C. Daily temperature fluctuations can magnify the toxicity of pesticides. CURRENT OPINION IN INSECT SCIENCE 2022; 51:100919. [PMID: 35390505 DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2022.100919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2022] [Revised: 03/22/2022] [Accepted: 03/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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We review the effect of daily temperature fluctuations (DTF), a key thermal factor predicted to increase under climate change, on pesticide toxicity. The effect of DTF on pesticide toxicity may be explained by: (i) a DTF-specific mechanism (caused by Jensen's inequality) and (ii) general mechanisms underlying an increased pesticide toxicity at both higher (increased energetic costs, pesticide uptake and metabolic conversion) and lower constant temperatures (lower organismal metabolic and associated elimination rates, increased sodium channel modulated nervous system vulnerability and energetic costs). Furthermore, DTF may enhance pesticide-induced reductions in heat tolerance due to stronger effects on oxygen demand (increase) and oxygen supply (decrease). Our literature review showed considerable support that DTF increase the negative impact of pesticides on insects, especially in terms of decreased survival. Therefore, we suggest that considering DTF in ecotoxicological studies may be of great importance to better protect biodiversity in our warming world.
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- Julie Verheyen
- Evolutionary Stress Ecology and Ecotoxicology, Deberiotstraat 32, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
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- Evolutionary Stress Ecology and Ecotoxicology, Deberiotstraat 32, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- Evolutionary Stress Ecology and Ecotoxicology, Deberiotstraat 32, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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Exploring the Role of Contiguous Farmland Cultivation and Adoption of No-Tillage Technology in Improving Transferees’ Income Structure: Evidence from China. LAND 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/land11040570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Seasonal alternations of extreme weather such as continuous drought and rare rainstorms significantly influence farmers’ adoption of agricultural technologies. Compared with traditional tillage, no-tillage technology has more advantages to cope with extreme weather. It is hypothesized that the cultivation of contiguous farmland is still minimal in spite of the transference of farmland on a large scale in China, which ultimately halts the adoption of no-tillage technology and influences the income of households. The current study used 793 farmland transferees’ data from Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia provinces of China to explore this phenomenon empirically. By employing the endogenous switching regression model, the study revealed that contiguous farmland significantly promotes the adoption of no-tillage technology and positively influences households’ agricultural and non-agricultural income. Meanwhile, the moderating effect of the stability of farmland rental contracts is explored. Further, it was also found that education level, organizational participation, relationship networks, and information acquisition channels influence the income of transferees who opt for no-tillage technology. The study further revealed that if a transferee who opts for no-tillage technology switches to traditional technology, their agricultural and non-agricultural income will decrease by 0.2893 and 1.6979 ten thousand yuan (RMB), respectively. In contrast, if a transferee who opts for traditional technology then switches to adopt no-tillage technology, their agricultural and non-agricultural income will increase by 0.1919 and 1.3044 ten thousand yuan (RMB), respectively. Conclusively, the current study’s empirical findings offer policymakers possible guidelines to devise strategies and encourage transferees to opt for no-tillage applications to increase their families’ income.
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Hermann M, Jansen R, van de Glind J, Peeters ET, Van den Brink PJ. A transportable temperature and heatwave control device (TENTACLE) for laboratory and field simulations of different climate change scenarios in aquatic micro- and mesocosms. HARDWAREX 2022; 11:e00307. [PMID: 35518280 PMCID: PMC9062584 DOI: 10.1016/j.ohx.2022.e00307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2022] [Revised: 04/04/2022] [Accepted: 04/16/2022] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Future global climate change with higher mean temperatures and increased intensity and frequency of heatwaves as extreme weather events will affect aquatic ecosystems with, yet, unpredictable severity and consequences. Although models suggest increased risk of species extinction up to the year 2050 for series of different climate change scenarios, environmental complexity may result in unconsidered effects of future temperature alterations on ecosystems. Apart from these environmental changes, additional anthropogenic stressors, e.g. chemical release, may cause unprecedented interaction effects on ecosystems. Ongoing efforts to better understand such temperature-chemical interaction effects comprise almost exclusively experimental designs using constant temperature regimes instead of environmentally realistic daily temperature variations. In this paper we describe an Arduino-based temperature and heatwave control device (TENTACLE) that is transportable, inexpensive, multifunctional, and easily reproducible. TENTACLE offers water temperature monitoring and manipulation of up to 3 different climate change-related scenarios: i) natural (ambient) sinusoidal fluctuations (laboratory applications), ii) elevated fluctuations, and iii) heatwaves as extreme events. The use of replaceable heating elements and low-cost materials suitable for field studies creates a high flexibility for researchers who may conduct in- or out-door, small- or large-scale, fresh- or salt-water experiments at different geographical locations.
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- Markus Hermann
- Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA, the Netherlands
- Corresponding author.
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- Tupola, Wageningen University & Research, Bornsesteeg 52, 6708 PE Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Tupola, Wageningen University & Research, Bornsesteeg 52, 6708 PE Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA, the Netherlands
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- Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA, the Netherlands
- Wageningen Environmental Research, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, the Netherlands
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Rodrigues LR, McDermott HA, Villanueva I, Djukarić J, Ruf LC, Amcoff M, Snook RR. Fluctuating heat stress during development exposes reproductive costs and putative benefits. J Anim Ecol 2021; 91:391-403. [PMID: 34775602 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2021] [Accepted: 10/25/2021] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Temperature and thermal variability are increasing worldwide, with well-known survival consequences. However, effects on other potentially more thermally sensitive reproductive traits are less understood, especially when considering thermal variation. Studying the consequences of male reproduction in the context of climate warming and ability to adapt is becoming increasingly relevant. Our goals were to test how exposure to different average temperatures that either fluctuated or remained constant impacts different male reproductive performance traits and to assess adaptive potential to future heat stress. We took advantage of a set of Drosophila melanogaster isogenic lines of different genotypes, exposing them to four different thermal conditions. These conditions represented a benign and a stressful mean temperature, applied either constantly or fluctuating around the mean and experienced during development when heat stress avoidance is hindered because of restricted mobility. We measured subsequent male reproductive performance for mating success, fertility, number of offspring produced and offspring sex ratio, and calculated the influence of thermal stress on estimated heritability and evolvability of these reproductive traits. Both costs and benefits to different thermal conditions on reproductive performance were found, with some responses varying between genotypes. Mating success improved under fluctuating benign temperature conditions and declined as temperature stress increased regardless of genotype. Fertility and productivity were severely reduced at fluctuating mean high temperature for all genotypes, but some genotypes were unaffected at constant high mean temperature. These more thermally robust genotypes showed a slight increase in productivity under the fluctuating benign condition compared to constant high temperature, despite both thermal conditions sharing the same temperature for 6 hr daily. Increasing thermal stress resulted in higher heritability and evolvability. Overall, the effects of temperature on reproductive performance depended on the trait and genotype; performance of some traits slightly increased when high temperatures were experienced for short periods but decreased substantially even when experiencing a benign temperature for a portion of each day. While thermal stress increased genetic variation that could provide adaptive potential against climate warming, this is unlikely to compensate for the overall severe negative effect on reproductive performance as mean temperature and variance increase.
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- Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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Clusella-Trullas S, Garcia RA, Terblanche JS, Hoffmann AA. How useful are thermal vulnerability indices? Trends Ecol Evol 2021; 36:1000-1010. [PMID: 34384645 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2021.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2021] [Revised: 06/23/2021] [Accepted: 07/06/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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To forecast climate change impacts across habitats or taxa, thermal vulnerability indices (e.g., safety margins and warming tolerances) are growing in popularity. Here, we present their history, context, formulation, and current applications. We highlight discrepancies in terminology and usage, and we draw attention to key assumptions underpinning the main indices and to their ecological and evolutionary relevance. In the process, we flag biases influencing these indices that are not always evaluated. These biases affect both components of index formulations, namely: (i) the characterisation of the thermal environment; and (ii) an organism's physiological and behavioural responses to more frequent and severe warming. Presently, many outstanding questions weaken a thermal vulnerability index approach. We describe ways to validate vulnerability index applications and outline issues to be considered in further developing these indices.
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- Department of Botany & Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Department of Conservation Ecology & Entomology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- School of BioSciences, Bio21 Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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Filazzola A, Matter SF, MacIvor JS. The direct and indirect effects of extreme climate events on insects. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 769:145161. [PMID: 33486167 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2020] [Revised: 01/08/2021] [Accepted: 01/09/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Extreme climate events are predicted to increase in the future, which will have significant effects on insect biodiversity. Research into this area has been rapidly expanding, but knowledge gaps still exist. We conducted a review of the literature to provide a synthesis of extreme climate events on insects and identify future areas of research. In our review, we asked the following questions: 1) What are the direct and indirect mechanisms that extreme climate events affect individual insects? 2) What are the effects of extreme climate events on insect populations and demography? 3) What are the implications of the extreme climate events effects on insect communities? Drought was among the most frequently described type of extreme climate event affecting insects, as well as the effects of temperature extremes and extreme temperature variation. Our review explores the factors that determine the sensitivity or resilience to climate extremes for individuals, populations, and communities. We also identify areas of future research to better understand the role of extreme climate events on insects including effects on non-trophic interactions, alteration of population dynamics, and mediation of the functional the trait set of communities. Many insect species are under threat from global change and extreme climate events are a contributing factor. Biologists and policy makers should consider the role of extreme events in their work to mitigate the loss of biodiversity and delivery of ecosystem services by insects.
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- Alessandro Filazzola
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Canada.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Canada
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Morgan Fleming J, Carter AW, Sheldon KS. Dung beetles show metabolic plasticity as pupae and smaller adult body size in response to increased temperature mean and variance. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 2021; 131:104215. [PMID: 33662376 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2021.104215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2020] [Revised: 12/17/2020] [Accepted: 02/24/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Though organisms may use thermal plasticity to cope with novel temperature regimes, our understanding of plastic responses is limited. Research on thermal plasticity has traditionally focused on the response of organisms to shifts in mean temperatures. However, increased temperature variation can have a greater impact on organismal performance than mean temperature alone. In addition, thermal plasticity studies are often designed to investigate plasticity in response to more extreme temperatures despite the fact that organisms make physiological adjustments to diurnal temperature fluctuations that they experience. Using pupae of the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus, we investigated the potential for plasticity in response to increasing temperature mean and variance using thermal regimes that were well within the species critical thermal limits. We reared 40 beetles from egg to pupae (n = 20) or adults (n = 20) at one of nine incubation treatments, including all combinations of three mean temperatures (22, 24, 26 °C) and three amplitudes of fluctuation (±2, ±4, ±8 °C). To measure thermal plasticity of pupae, we quantified CO2 production across a range of temperatures (i.e., 15, 20, 25, and 30 °C) for 20 beetles per treatment. The relationship between CO2 production and temperature provides an estimate of energetic costs at a given temperature (i.e., using the intercept) and thermal sensitivity (i.e., using the slope). We reared the remaining O. taurus in each treatment (n = 20) to adulthood and then recorded mass (g) to determine body size, a proxy for fitness. Pupae exhibited thermal plasticity in response to the additive and interactive effects of temperature mean and variance. Pupae reared in the warmest and most variable treatment (26 ± 8 °C) showed the greatest decrease in overall metabolism compared to all other treatments, and adult beetles from this treatment (26 ± 8 °C) were also significantly smaller than adult beetles from any other treatment. We found that both temperature mean and variance contributed to thermal plasticity of pupae and had consequences for adult body size, a trait related to dung beetle fitness. Importantly, the temperatures we used in our treatments are not extreme and are likely well below the critical thermal maxima of the species, demonstrating that organisms can make adjustments to temperatures they experience across diurnal or seasonal timescales.
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- J Morgan Fleming
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States.
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Sales K, Vasudeva R, Gage MJG. Fertility and mortality impacts of thermal stress from experimental heatwaves on different life stages and their recovery in a model insect. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2021; 8:201717. [PMID: 33959335 PMCID: PMC8074959 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.201717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2020] [Accepted: 02/03/2021] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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With climate change creating a more volatile atmosphere, heatwaves that create thermal stress for living systems will become stronger and more frequent. Using the flour beetle Tribolium castaneum, we measure the impacts of thermal stress from experimental heatwaves in the laboratory on reproduction and survival across different insect life stages, and the extent and pace of any recovery. We exposed larvae, pupae, juvenile and mature adult male beetles to 5-day periods of heat stress where temperatures were maintained at either 40°C or 42°C, a few degrees above the 35°C optimum for this species' population productivity, and then measured survival and reproduction compared with controls at 30°C. Mortality due to thermal stress was greatest among juvenile life stages. Male reproductive function was specifically damaged by high temperatures, especially if experienced through pupal or immature life stages when complete sterility was shown at reproductive maturity; larval exposure did not damage adult male fertility. High temperatures impaired testis development and the production of viable sperm, with damage being strongest when experienced during pupal or juvenile adult stages. Despite this disruption, males recovered from heat stress and, depending on the stage of exposure, testis size, sperm production and fertility returned to normal 15-28 days after exposure. Our experiments reveal how thermal stress from heatwave conditions could impact on insect survival and reproduction across different life stages, and the potential and timescales of recovery.
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- Kris Sales
- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
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Buckley LB, Schoville SD, Williams CM. Shifts in the relative fitness contributions of fecundity and survival in variable and changing environments. J Exp Biol 2021; 224:224/Suppl_1/jeb228031. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.228031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Organisms respond to shifts in climate means and variability via distinct mechanisms. Accounting for these differential responses and appropriately aggregating them is central to understanding and predicting responses to climate variability and change. Separately considering fitness components can clarify organismal responses: fecundity is primarily an integrated, additive response to chronic environmental conditions over time via mechanisms such as energy use and acquisition, whereas survival can be strongly influenced by short-term, extreme environmental conditions. In many systems, the relative importance of fecundity and survival constraints changes systematically along climate gradients, with fecundity constraints dominating at high latitudes or altitudes (i.e. leading range edges as climate warms), and survival constraints dominating at trailing range edges. Incorporating these systematic differences in models may improve predictions of responses to recent climate change over models that assume similar processes along environmental gradients. We explore how detecting and predicting shifts in fitness constraints can improve our ability to forecast responses to climate gradients and change.
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- Lauren B. Buckley
- Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1800, USA
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- Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53715-1218, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3140, USA
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Seuront L, Nicastro KR, McQuaid CD, Zardi GI. Microplastic leachates induce species-specific trait strengthening in intertidal mussels. ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS : A PUBLICATION OF THE ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2021; 31:e02222. [PMID: 32867006 DOI: 10.1002/eap.2222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2020] [Revised: 06/09/2020] [Accepted: 06/19/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Plastic pollution is ubiquitous with increasing recognition of its direct effects on species' fitness. Little is known, however, about its more subtle effects, including the influence of plastic pollution on the morphological, functional and behavioral traits of organisms that are central to their ability to withstand disturbances. Among the least obvious but most pernicious forms of plastic-associated pollution are the chemicals that leach from microplastics. Here, we investigate how such leachates influence species' traits by assessing functional trait compensation across four species of intertidal mussels, through investigations of byssal thread production, movement and aggregation behavior for mussels held in natural seawater or seawater contaminated by microplastic leachates. We found no evidence for compensation of functional traits, but for each species, microplastic leachates reinforced one trait while others remained unaffected. Two species (Perna perna and Mytilus galloprovincialis), were characterized by a resistance strategy to disturbance; they produced more byssal threads in microplastic leachate seawater than in control seawater, while motility and aggregation remained essentially unaffected. In contrast, the other two species (M. edulis and Choromytilus meridionalis), showed a resilience strategy to disturbance through increased motility and aggregation in leachate seawater, while byssal thread production remained unaffected. These results suggest that the competitive abilities of intertidal mussels may be related to their sensitivity to microplastic leachates or other chemical disturbance. Importantly, the trait strengthening observed will affect the ability of these mussels to form spatially patterned beds, with implications for their quality as autogenic ecological engineers or foundation species. Thus, our findings have implications for the ability of mussel beds to tolerate disturbance, and hence for central ecosystem services, such as their ability to support biodiversity and enhance secondary and tertiary production. The results suggest that an inconspicuous aspect of plastic pollution has the potential to influence other communities and ecosystems in powerful ways.
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- Laurent Seuront
- Univ. Lille, CNRS, Univ. Littoral Côte d'Opale, UMR 8187 - LOG - Laboratoire d'Océanologie et de Géosciences, F-59000, Lille, France
- Department of Marine Resources and Energy, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, 4-5-7 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8477, Japan
- Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa
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- Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa
- CCMAR-Centro de Ciencias do Mar, CIMAR Laboratório Associado, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, Faro, 8005-139, Portugal
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- Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa
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- Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa
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Bonino MF, Cruz FB, Perotti MG. Does temperature at local scale explain thermal biology patterns of temperate tadpoles? J Therm Biol 2020; 94:102744. [PMID: 33292985 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2020.102744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2020] [Revised: 09/21/2020] [Accepted: 09/23/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Most of the literature on temperature-organism interactions rely on mean temperature (mostly air), disregarding the real complexity of this variable. There is a growing consensus about the importance of considering the temperature fluctuations as a mechanism improving organism's performance. Tadpoles are small body size ectotherm organisms that behave isothermally with their environment. As such, are good models for studying their thermal biology relative to their immediate environment. We studied six anuran tadpole species in North Patagonia, Alsodes gargola, Hylorina sylvatica, Batrachyla taeniata, Pleurodema thaul, P. bufoninum and Rhinella spinulosa, distributed in a West-East altitudinal cline with different environments and thermal conditions. We evaluated the relationship between thermal descriptors at a local scale and the thermal biology patterns of these temperate tadpoles. We estimated thermal tolerance limits and thermal sensitivity of locomotion of each species. The different aquatic environments showed important differences in local thermal conditions, associated with observed differences in the thermal traits in these tadpoles. Species exposed to lower temperature fluctuations and lower environmental mean temperatures showed lower swimming optimal temperatures and narrower thermal tolerance ranges. We found greater variability in the upper than in the lower critical limits in these Patagonian anuran tadpoles. Minimum critical temperatures were close to freezing temperature, possibly in detriment of their tolerance to high temperatures. Overall, our results suggest that these species are adapted to low temperatures. Finally, warming tolerances and predicted thermal safety margins, show that none of the studied species appear to be under thermal stress that may compromise their survival at the present time or in the near future, under a moderate climate change scenario.
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- Marcelo Fabián Bonino
- Laboratorio de Ecología, Biología Evolutiva y Comportamiento de Herpetozoos, Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente (INIBIOMA), CONICET-UNCOMA, Quintral 1250 (8400), Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina.
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- Laboratorio de Ecología, Biología Evolutiva y Comportamiento de Herpetozoos, Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente (INIBIOMA), CONICET-UNCOMA, Quintral 1250 (8400), Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Ecología, Biología Evolutiva y Comportamiento de Herpetozoos, Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente (INIBIOMA), CONICET-UNCOMA, Quintral 1250 (8400), Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina
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LoScerbo D, Farrell MJ, Arrowsmith J, Mlynarek J, Lessard J. Phylogenetically conserved host traits and local abiotic conditions jointly drive the geography of parasite intensity. Funct Ecol 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- Daniella LoScerbo
- Department of Biology Concordia University Montréal QC Canada
- Department of Environmental Sciences Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC Canada
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- Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department University of Toronto Toronto ON Canada
- Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases University of Georgia Athens GA USA
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Chukwuka CO, Monks JM, Cree A. Heat and water loss versus shelter: a dilemma in thermoregulatory decision making for a retreat-dwelling nocturnal gecko. J Exp Biol 2020; 223:jeb231241. [PMID: 32778565 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.231241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2020] [Accepted: 08/02/2020] [Indexed: 08/26/2023]
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Understanding the interaction between upper voluntary thermal limit (VTmax) and water loss may aid in predicting responses of ectotherms to increasing temperatures within microhabitats. However, the temperature at which climate heating will force cool-climate nocturnal lizards to abandon daytime retreats remains poorly understood. Here, we developed a new laboratory protocol for determining VTmax in the retreat-dwelling, viviparous Woodworthia 'Otago/Southland' gecko, based on escape behaviour (abandonment of heated retreat). We compared the body temperature (Tb) at VTmax, and duration of heating, between two source groups with different thermal histories, and among three reproductive groups. We also examined continuous changes in Tb (via an attached biologger) and total evaporative water loss (EWL) during heating. In the field, we measured Tb and microhabitat thermal profiles to establish whether geckos reach VTmax in nature. We found that VTmax and duration of heating varied between source groups (and thus potentially with prior thermal experience), but not among reproductive groups. Moreover, geckos reached a peak temperature slightly higher than VTmax before abandoning the retreat. Total EWL increased with increasing VTmax and with the duration of heating. In the field, pregnant geckos with attached biologgers reached VTmax temperature, and temperatures of some separately monitored microhabitats exceeded VTmax in hot weather implying that some retreats must be abandoned to avoid overheating. Our results suggest that cool-climate nocturnal lizards that inhabit daytime retreats may abandon retreats more frequently if climate warming persists, implying a trade-off between retention of originally occupied shelter and ongoing water loss due to overheating.
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- Christian O Chukwuka
- Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
- Department of Biology, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike Ikwo, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria
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- Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
- Department of Conservation, Dunedin 9058, New Zealand
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- Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
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Breitenbach AT, Carter AW, Paitz RT, Bowden RM. Using naturalistic incubation temperatures to demonstrate how variation in the timing and continuity of heat wave exposure influences phenotype. Proc Biol Sci 2020; 287:20200992. [PMID: 32752987 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.0992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Most organisms are exposed to bouts of warm temperatures during development, yet we know little about how variation in the timing and continuity of heat exposure influences biological processes. If heat waves increase in frequency and duration as predicted, it is necessary to understand how these bouts could affect thermally sensitive species, including reptiles with temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD). In a multi-year study using fluctuating temperatures, we exposed Trachemys scripta embryos to cooler, male-producing temperatures interspersed with warmer, female-producing temperatures (heat waves) that varied in either timing during development or continuity and then analysed resulting sex ratios. We also quantified the expression of genes involved in testis differentiation (Dmrt1) and ovary differentiation (Cyp19A1) to determine how heat wave continuity affects the expression of genes involved in sexual differentiation. Heat waves applied during the middle of development produced significantly more females compared to heat waves that occurred just 7 days before or after this window, and even short gaps in the continuity of a heat wave decreased the production of females. Continuous heat exposure resulted in increased Cyp19A1 expression while discontinuous heat exposure failed to increase expression in either gene over a similar time course. We report that even small differences in the timing and continuity of heat waves can result in drastically different phenotypic outcomes. This strong effect of temperature occurred despite the fact that embryos were exposed to the same number of warm days during a short period of time, which highlights the need to study temperature effects under more ecologically relevant conditions where temperatures may be elevated for only a few days at a time. In the face of a changing climate, the finding that subtle shifts in temperature exposure result in substantial effects on embryonic development becomes even more critical.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1610, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790, USA
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Montejo-Kovacevich G, Martin SH, Meier JI, Bacquet CN, Monllor M, Jiggins CD, Nadeau NJ. Microclimate buffering and thermal tolerance across elevations in a tropical butterfly. J Exp Biol 2020; 223:jeb220426. [PMID: 32165433 PMCID: PMC7174841 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.220426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2019] [Accepted: 03/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Microclimatic variability in tropical forests plays a key role in shaping species distributions and their ability to cope with environmental change, especially for ectotherms. Nonetheless, currently available climatic datasets lack data from the forest interior and, furthermore, our knowledge of thermal tolerance among tropical ectotherms is limited. We therefore studied natural variation in the microclimate experienced by tropical butterflies in the genus Heliconius across their Andean range in a single year. We found that the forest strongly buffers temperature and humidity in the understorey, especially in the lowlands, where temperatures are more extreme. There were systematic differences between our yearly records and macroclimate databases (WorldClim2), with lower interpolated minimum temperatures and maximum temperatures higher than expected. We then assessed thermal tolerance of 10 Heliconius butterfly species in the wild and found that populations at high elevations had significantly lower heat tolerance than those at lower elevations. However, when we reared populations of the widespread H. erato from high and low elevations in a common-garden environment, the difference in heat tolerance across elevations was reduced, indicating plasticity in this trait. Microclimate buffering is not currently captured in publicly available datasets, but could be crucial for enabling upland shifting of species sensitive to heat such as highland Heliconius Plasticity in thermal tolerance may alleviate the effects of global warming on some widespread ectotherm species, but more research is needed to understand the long-term consequences of plasticity on populations and species.
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FL, UK
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
- St John's College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
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- Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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Carter AW, Paitz RT, Bowden RM. The Devil is in the Details: Identifying Aspects of Temperature Variation that Underlie Sex Determination in Species with TSD. Integr Comp Biol 2020; 59:1081-1088. [PMID: 31095337 DOI: 10.1093/icb/icz036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Most organisms experience thermal variability in their environment; however, our understanding of how organisms cope with this variation is under-developed. For example, in organisms with temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD), an inability to predict sex ratios under fluctuating incubation temperatures in the field hinders predictions of how species with TSD will fare in a changing climate. To better understand how sex determination is affected by thermal variation, we incubated Trachemys scripta eggs using a "heat wave" design, where embryos experienced a male-producing temperature of 25 ± 3°C for the majority of development and varying durations at a female-producing temperature of 29.5 ± 3°C during the window of development when sex is determined. We compared the sex ratios from these incubation conditions with a previous data set that utilized a similar heat wave design, but instead incubated eggs at a male-producing temperature of 27 ± 3°C but utilized the same female-producing temperature of 29.5 ± 3°C. We compared the sex ratio reaction norms produced from these two incubation conditions and found that, despite differences in average temperatures, both conditions produced 50:50 sex ratios after ∼8 days of exposure to female-producing conditions. This emphasizes that sex can be determined in just a few days at female-producing conditions and that sex determination is relatively unaffected by temperatures outside of this short window. Further, these data demonstrate the reduced accuracy of the constant temperature equivalent model (the leading method of predicting sex ratios) under thermally variable temperatures. Conceptualizing sex determination as the number of days spent incubating at female-producing conditions rather than an aggregate statistic is supported by the mechanistic underpinnings of TSD, helps to improve sex ratio estimation methods, and has important consequences for predicting how species with TSD will fare in a changing climate.
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- A W Carter
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790, USA
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Uno H, Stillman JH. Lifetime eurythermy by seasonally matched thermal performance of developmental stages in an annual aquatic insect. Oecologia 2020; 192:647-656. [PMID: 31989318 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-020-04605-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2019] [Accepted: 01/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Organisms with annual life cycles are exposed to life stage specific thermal environments across seasons. Seasonal variation in thermal environments can vary across years and among sites. We investigated how organisms with annual life cycles respond to predictable seasonal changes in temperature and unpredictable thermal variation between habitats and years throughout their lives. Field surveys and historical records reveal that the spatially and temporally heterogeneous thermal environments inhabited by the annual mayfly Ephemerella maculata (Ephemerellidae) shift the date for transition to the next, life stage, so that the thermal phenotype of each life stage matches the thermal environment of the specific habitat and year. Laboratory studies of three distinct life stages of this mayfly reveal that life stage transitions are temperature dependent, facilitating timing shifts that are synchronized with the current season's temperatures. Each life stage exhibited specific thermal sensitivity and performance phenotypes that matched the ambient temperature typically experienced during that life stage. Our study across the whole life cycle reveals mechanisms that allow organisms to achieve lifetime eurythermy in a dynamic seasonal environment, despite having narrower thermal ranges for growth and development in each life stage.
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- Hiromi Uno
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
- Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Department of Biology, Estuary and Ocean Science Center, San Francisco State University, Tiburon, CA, USA
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Delnat V, Tran TT, Verheyen J, Van Dinh K, Janssens L, Stoks R. Temperature variation magnifies chlorpyrifos toxicity differently between larval and adult mosquitoes. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2019; 690:1237-1244. [PMID: 31470486 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.07.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2019] [Revised: 07/02/2019] [Accepted: 07/03/2019] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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To improve risk assessment there is increasing attention for the effect of climate change on the sensitivity to contaminants and vice versa. Two important and connected topics have been largely ignored in this context: (i) the increase of daily temperature variation (DTV) as a key component of climate change, and (ii) differences in sensitivity to climate change and contaminants between developmental stages. We therefore investigated whether DTV magnified the negative effects of the organophosphate insecticide chlorpyrifos on mortality and heat tolerance and whether this effect was stronger in aquatic larvae than in terrestrial adults of the mosquito Culex pipiens. Exposure to chlorpyrifos at a constant temperature imposed mortality and reduced the heat tolerance in both larvae and adult males, but not in adult females. This provides the first evidence that the TICS ("toxicant-induced climate change sensitivity") concept can be sex-specific. DTV had no direct negative effects. Yet, consistent with the CITS ("climate-induced toxicant sensitivity") concept, DTV magnified the toxicity of the pesticide in terms of larval mortality. This was not the case in the adult stage indicating the CITS concept to be dependent on the developmental stage. Notably, chlorpyrifos reduced the heat tolerance of adult females only in the presence of DTV, thereby providing support for the reciprocal effects between DTV and contaminants, hence the coupling of the TICS and CITS concepts. Taken together, our results highlight the importance of integrating DTV and the developmental stage to improve risk assessment of contaminants under climate change.
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- Vienna Delnat
- Laboratory of Evolutionary Stress Ecology and Ecotoxicology, University of Leuven, Belgium.
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- Laboratory of Evolutionary Stress Ecology and Ecotoxicology, University of Leuven, Belgium; Institute of Aquaculture, Nha Trang University, Khanh Hoa, Viet Nam.
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- Laboratory of Evolutionary Stress Ecology and Ecotoxicology, University of Leuven, Belgium.
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- Institute of Aquaculture, Nha Trang University, Khanh Hoa, Viet Nam.
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- Laboratory of Evolutionary Stress Ecology and Ecotoxicology, University of Leuven, Belgium.
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- Laboratory of Evolutionary Stress Ecology and Ecotoxicology, University of Leuven, Belgium.
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Sheldon KS. Climate Change in the Tropics: Ecological and Evolutionary Responses at Low Latitudes. ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS 2019. [DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110218-025005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Climate change is affecting every ecosystem on Earth. Though climate change is global in scope, literature reviews on the biotic impacts of climate change have focused on temperate and polar regions. Tropical species have distinct life histories and physiologies, and ecological communities are assembled differently across latitude. Thus, tropical species and communities may exhibit different responses to climate change compared with those in temperate and polar regions. What are the fingerprints of climate change in the tropics? This review summarizes the current state of knowledge on impacts of climate change in tropical regions and discusses research priorities to better understand the ways in which species and ecological communities are responding to climate change in the most biodiverse places on Earth.
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- Kimberly S. Sheldon
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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Au TF, Bonebrake TC. Increased Suitability of Poleward Climate for a Tropical Butterfly (Euripus nyctelius) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) Accompanies its Successful Range Expansion. JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE (ONLINE) 2019; 19:5614963. [PMID: 31703123 PMCID: PMC6839647 DOI: 10.1093/jisesa/iez105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Distribution shifts are a common response in butterflies to a warming climate. Hong Kong has documented records of several new butterfly species in recent decades, comprising a high proportion of tropical species, some of which have successfully established. In this study, we examined possible drivers for the establishment of Euripus nyctelius Doubleday (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) by studying its thermal physiology and modeling current climate and future distributions projected by species distribution modeling (SDM). We found that E. nyctelius adults have a significantly higher critical thermal minimum than its local temperate relative, Hestina assimilis Linnaeus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), suggesting a possible physiological constraint that may have been lifted with recent warming. SDMs provide further evidence that a shifting climate envelope may have improved the climate suitability for E. nyctelius in Hong Kong and South China-however, we cannot rule out the role of other drivers potentially influencing or driving range expansion, habitat change in particular. Conclusive attribution of warming-driven impacts for most tropical species is difficult or not possible due to a lack of historical or long-term data. Tropical insects will require a significant advancement in efforts to monitor species and populations across countries if we are to conclusively document climate-driven shifts in species distributions and manage the consequences of such species redistribution. Nevertheless, the warming climate and subsequent increased climatic suitability for tropical species in poleward areas, as shown here, is likely to result in future species redistribution events in subtropical and temperate ecosystems.
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- Tsun Fung Au
- School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Department of Geography, Faculty of Social Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Department of Geography, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
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- School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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Based on historical and lived experience, people expect certain conditions to prevail in the ecosystems they depend upon. Climate change is now introducing strong trends that push conditions beyond historic levels. Using ocean ecosystems as a case study, we show that the frequency of surprising temperatures is increasing faster than expected. We then use these events as motivation to develop a theory for how temperature trends and events will impact natural and human communities. The theory suggests that strong trends will decrease the abundance and productivity of natural communities. Increasing trends will also challenge how people make decisions, and our theory identifies the conditions under which there is a significant payoff for people to bet on the trend. The community of species, human institutions, and human activities at a given location have been shaped by historical conditions (both mean and variability) at that location. Anthropogenic climate change is now adding strong trends on top of existing natural variability. These trends elevate the frequency of “surprises”—conditions that are unexpected based on recent history. Here, we show that the frequency of surprising ocean temperatures has increased even faster than expected based on recent temperature trends. Using a simple model of human adaptation, we show that these surprises will increasingly challenge natural modes of adaptation that rely on historical experience. We also show that warming rates are likely to shift natural communities toward generalist species, reducing their productivity and diversity. Our work demonstrates increasing benefits for individuals and institutions from betting that trends will continue, but this strategy represents a radical shift that will be difficult for many to make.
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Garcia RA, Clusella-Trullas S. Thermal landscape change as a driver of ectotherm responses to plant invasions. Proc Biol Sci 2019; 286:20191020. [PMID: 31238850 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.1020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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A growing body of research demonstrates the impacts of invasive alien plants on native animals, but few studies consider thermal effects as a driver of the responses of native organisms. As invasive alien plants establish and alter the composition and arrangement of plant communities, the thermal landscapes available to ectotherms also change. Our study reviews the research undertaken to date on the thermal effects of alien plant invasions on native reptiles, amphibians, insects and arachnids. The 37 studies published between 1970 and early 2019 portray an overall detrimental effect of invasive plants on thermal landscapes, ectothermic individuals' performance and species abundance, diversity and composition. With a case study of a lizard species, we illustrate the use of thermal ecology tools in plant invasion research and test the generality of alien plant effects: changes in thermoregulation behaviour in invaded landscapes varied depending on the level of invasion and lizard traits. Together, the literature review and case study show that thermal effects of alien plants on ectotherms can be substantial albeit context-dependent. Further research should cover multiple combinations of native/invasive plant growth forms, invasion stages and ectotherm traits. More attention is also needed to test causality along the chain of effects from thermal landscapes to individuals, populations and communities.
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- Raquel A Garcia
- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University , Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602 , South Africa
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- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University , Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602 , South Africa
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Salinas S, Irvine SE, Schertzing CL, Golden SQ, Munch SB. Trait variation in extreme thermal environments under constant and fluctuating temperatures. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2019; 374:20180177. [PMID: 30966956 PMCID: PMC6365863 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/11/2018] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Climate change is increasingly exposing populations to rare and novel environmental conditions. Theory suggests that extreme conditions will expose cryptic phenotypes, with a concomitant increase in trait variation. Although some empirical support for this exists, it is also well established that physiological mechanisms (e.g. heat shock protein expression) change when organisms are exposed to constant versus fluctuating temperatures. To determine the effect of common, rare and novel temperatures on the release of hidden variation, we exposed fathead minnows, Pimephales promelas, to five fluctuating and four constant temperature regimes (constant treatments: 23.5, 25, 28.5 and 31°C; all fluctuating treatments shared a minimum temperature of 22°C at 00.00 and a maximum of 25, 28, 31, 34 or 37°C at 12.00). We measured each individual's length weekly over 60 days, critical thermal maximum (CTmax), five morphometric traits (eye anterior-posterior distance, pelvic fin length, pectoral fin length, pelvic fin ray count and pectoral fin ray count) and fluctuating asymmetry (FA, absolute difference between left and right morphometric measurements; FA is typically associated with stress). Length-at-age in both constant and fluctuating conditions decreased with temperature, and this trait's variance decreased with temperature under fluctuating conditions but increased and then decreased in constant temperatures. CTmax in both treatments increased with increasing water temperature, while its variance decreased in warmer waters. No consistent pattern in mean or variance was found across morphometric traits or FA. Our results suggest that, for fathead minnows, variance can decrease in important traits (e.g. length-at-age and CTmax) as the environment becomes more stressful, so it may be difficult to establish comprehensive rules for the effects of rarer or stressful environments on trait variation. This article is part of the theme issue 'The role of plasticity in phenotypic adaptation to rapid environmental change'.
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- Santiago Salinas
- Department of Biology, Kalamazoo College, 1200 Academy Street, Kalamazoo, MI 49006, USA
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- Department of Biology, Kalamazoo College, 1200 Academy Street, Kalamazoo, MI 49006, USA
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- Department of Biology, Kalamazoo College, 1200 Academy Street, Kalamazoo, MI 49006, USA
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- Department of Biology, Kalamazoo College, 1200 Academy Street, Kalamazoo, MI 49006, USA
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- National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, 110 Shaffer Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA
- Center for Stock Assessment Research, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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Incorporating temperature and precipitation extremes into process-based models of African lepidoptera changes the predicted distribution under climate change. Ecol Modell 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2018.12.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Garcia-Robledo C, Charlotten-Silva M, Cruz C, Kuprewicz EK. Low quality diet and challenging temperatures affect vital rates, but not thermal tolerance in a tropical insect expanding its diet to an exotic plant. J Therm Biol 2018; 77:7-13. [PMID: 30196902 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2018.07.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2018] [Revised: 07/09/2018] [Accepted: 07/22/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Determining responses of organisms to changing temperatures is a research priority, as global warming threatens populations and ecosystems worldwide. Upper thermal limits are frequently measured as the critical thermal maximum (CTmax), a quick bioassay where organisms are exposed to increasing temperatures until individuals are not able to perform basic motor activities such as walking or flying. A more informative approach to understand organism responses to global warming is to evaluate how vital rates, such as growth or survival, change with temperatures. The main objectives of this study are: (1) to determine if factors affecting insect vital rates such as diet quality, developmental temperatures or acclimation also affect CTmax and (2) to determine if vital rates of different life stages (i.e., insect larvae or adults) display different responses to temperature changes. If different life stages have particular thermal requirements, this may indicate different susceptibility to global warming. This study focuses on Cephaloleia belti (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), a tropical insect currently expanding its diet to an exotic host plant. We determined how high and low-quality diets (i.e., native vs novel host), as well as exposure temperatures affect CTmax of adult beetles. We also estimated larval and adult survival when feeding on high and low quality host plants, when exposed to temperatures typical of the elevational distribution of this species, or when exposed to projected temperatures in 100 years. We did not detect an effect of diet quality or acclimation on CTmax. However, larvae and adults had different thermal requirements. CTmax is not affected by previous diet or acclimation as an adult. We propose that to understand processes involved in the adaptation and persistence of ectotherm populations in a warming world, studies must explore responses beyond CTmax, and focus on the response of vital rates to changing temperatures.
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- Carlos Garcia-Robledo
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, 75 North Eagleville Rd., Unit 3043, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
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- Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico at Ponce, PO Box 7183, Ponce, PR 00732, USA; Research Experience for Undergraduates NSF LSAMP-OTS. Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS), Duke University, Box 90633, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 1 Forestry Dr., Syracuse, NY 13210, USA; Research Experience for Undergraduates NSF LSAMP-OTS. Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS), Duke University, Box 90633, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, 75 North Eagleville Rd., Unit 3043, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
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Gangloff EJ, Telemeco RS. High Temperature, Oxygen, and Performance: Insights from Reptiles and Amphibians. Integr Comp Biol 2018; 58:9-24. [DOI: 10.1093/icb/icy005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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- Eric J Gangloff
- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Department of Biology, California State University Fresno, Fresno, CA 93740, USA
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Sheldon KS, Huey RB, Kaspari M, Sanders NJ. Fifty Years of Mountain Passes: A Perspective on Dan Janzen’s Classic Article. Am Nat 2018; 191:553-565. [DOI: 10.1086/697046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Safaie A, Silbiger NJ, McClanahan TR, Pawlak G, Barshis DJ, Hench JL, Rogers JS, Williams GJ, Davis KA. High frequency temperature variability reduces the risk of coral bleaching. Nat Commun 2018; 9:1671. [PMID: 29700296 PMCID: PMC5920114 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04074-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2017] [Accepted: 04/02/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Coral bleaching is the detrimental expulsion of algal symbionts from their cnidarian hosts, and predominantly occurs when corals are exposed to thermal stress. The incidence and severity of bleaching is often spatially heterogeneous within reef-scales (<1 km), and is therefore not predictable using conventional remote sensing products. Here, we systematically assess the relationship between in situ measurements of 20 environmental variables, along with seven remotely sensed SST thermal stress metrics, and 81 observed bleaching events at coral reef locations spanning five major reef regions globally. We find that high-frequency temperature variability (i.e., daily temperature range) was the most influential factor in predicting bleaching prevalence and had a mitigating effect, such that a 1 °C increase in daily temperature range would reduce the odds of more severe bleaching by a factor of 33. Our findings suggest that reefs with greater high-frequency temperature variability may represent particularly important opportunities to conserve coral ecosystems against the major threat posed by warming ocean temperatures. Coral bleaching is often predicted via remote sensing of ocean temperatures at large scales, obscuring important reef-scale drivers and biological responses. Here, the authors use in- situ data to show that bleaching is lower globally at reef habitats with greater diurnal temperature variability.
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- Aryan Safaie
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA.
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- Department of Biology, California State University, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA, 91330-8303, USA.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA
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- Marine Programs, Wildlife Conservation Society, 2300 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY, 10460, USA
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC0411, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Mills Godwin Building 110, Norfolk, VA, 23529, USA
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- Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, 135 Duke Marine Lab Road, Beaufort, NC, 28516, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, 473 Via Ortega, Y2E2 Rm 126, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA.
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Kingsolver JG, Buckley LB. Quantifying thermal extremes and biological variation to predict evolutionary responses to changing climate. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2018; 372:rstb.2016.0147. [PMID: 28483862 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/05/2016] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Central ideas from thermal biology, including thermal performance curves and tolerances, have been widely used to evaluate how changes in environmental means and variances generate changes in fitness, selection and microevolution in response to climate change. We summarize the opportunities and challenges for extending this approach to understanding the consequences of extreme climatic events. Using statistical tools from extreme value theory, we show how distributions of thermal extremes vary with latitude, time scale and climate change. Second, we review how performance curves and tolerances have been used to predict the fitness and evolutionary responses to climate change and climate gradients. Performance curves and tolerances change with prior thermal history and with time scale, complicating their use for predicting responses to thermal extremes. Third, we describe several recent case studies showing how infrequent extreme events can have outsized effects on the evolution of performance curves and heat tolerance. A key issue is whether thermal extremes affect reproduction or survival, and how these combine to determine overall fitness. We argue that a greater focus on tails-in the distribution of environmental extremes, and in the upper ends of performance curves-is needed to understand the consequences of extreme events.This article is part of the themed issue 'Behavioural, ecological and evolutionary responses to extreme climatic events'.
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- Joel G Kingsolver
- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Carter AW, Sadd BM, Tuberville TD, Paitz RT, Bowden RM. Short heatwaves during fluctuating incubation regimes produce females under temperature-dependent sex determination with implications for sex ratios in nature. Sci Rep 2018; 8:3. [PMID: 29311550 PMCID: PMC5758759 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-17708-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2017] [Accepted: 11/28/2017] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Patterns of temperature fluctuations in nature affect numerous biological processes, yet, empirical studies often utilize constant temperature treatments. This can limit our understanding of how thermally sensitive species respond to ecologically relevant temperatures. Research on turtles with temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) provides good examples of this, since nest temperatures from many populations rarely exceed those necessary to produce females under constant laboratory conditions. We hypothesized that exposure to brief periods of warm temperatures (i.e., heat waves) are integral to sex determination in species with TSD, which requires tests that move beyond constant temperatures. We exposed Trachemys scripta embryos from multiple populations and across the nesting season to heat waves of variable durations and quantified sex ratios. We found that embryos from all populations were highly sensitive to brief exposures to female producing temperatures; only 7.9 days of exposure produced a 50:50 sex ratio, but the response varied across the nesting season. From these findings, a model was developed to estimate sex ratios from field temperature traces, and this model outperformed traditional methods. Overall, these results enhance our understanding of TSD and emphasize the importance of using biologically relevant temperatures when studying thermally sensitive processes.
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- A W Carter
- School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, United States.
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- School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, United States
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- University of Georgia's Savanah River Ecology Lab, Aiken, SC, United States
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- School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, United States
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- School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, United States
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Barbosa M, Inocentes N, Soares AMVM, Oliveira M. Synergy effects of fluoxetine and variability in temperature lead to proportionally greater fitness costs in Daphnia: A multigenerational test. AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY (AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS) 2017; 193:268-275. [PMID: 29125953 DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2017.10.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2017] [Revised: 10/19/2017] [Accepted: 10/24/2017] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Increased variability in water temperature is predicted to impose disproportionally greater fitness costs than mean increase in temperature. Additionally, water contaminants are currently a major source of human-induced stress likely to produce fitness costs. Global change models forecast an increase in these two human-induced stressors. Yet, in spite the growing interest in understanding how organisms respond to global change, the joint fitness effects of water pollution and increased variability in temperature remain unclear. Here, using a multigenerational design, we test the hypothesis that exposure to high concentrations of fluoxetine, a human medicine commonly found in freshwater systems, causes increased lifetime fitness costs, when associated with increased variability in temperature. Although fluoxetine and variability in temperature elicited some fitness cost when tested alone, when both stressors acted together the costs were disproportionally greater. The combined effect of fluoxetine and variability in temperature led to a reduction of 37% in lifetime reproductive success and a 17.9% decrease in population growth rate. Interestingly, fluoxetine and variability in temperature had no effect on the probability of survival. Freshwater systems are among the most imperilled ecosystems, often exposed to multiple human-induced stressors. Our results indicate that organisms face greater fitness risk when exposed to multiple stressors at the same time than when each stress acts alone. Our study highlights the importance of using a multi-generational approach to fully understand individual environmental tolerance and its responses to a global change scenario in aquatic systems.
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- Miguel Barbosa
- Department of Biology & CESAM - Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal; Centre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, East Sands, St Andrews KY16 8LB, Fife, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biology & CESAM - Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Biology & CESAM - Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Biology & CESAM - Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal.
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Gotcha N, Terblanche JS, Nyamukondiwa C. Plasticity and cross-tolerance to heterogeneous environments: divergent stress responses co-evolved in an African fruit fly. J Evol Biol 2017; 31:98-110. [PMID: 29080375 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2017] [Revised: 10/10/2017] [Accepted: 10/17/2017] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Plastic adjustments of physiological tolerance to a particular stressor can result in fitness benefits for resistance that might manifest not only in that same environment but also be advantageous when faced with alternative environmental stressors, a phenomenon termed 'cross-tolerance'. The nature and magnitude of cross-tolerance responses can provide important insights into the underlying genetic architecture, potential constraints on or versatility of an organism's stress responses. In this study, we tested for cross-tolerance to a suite of abiotic factors that likely contribute to setting insect population dynamics and geographic range limits: heat, cold, desiccation and starvation resistance in adult Ceratitis rosa following acclimation to all these isolated individual conditions prior to stress assays. Traits of stress resistance scored included critical thermal (activity) limits, chill coma recovery time (CCRT), heat knockdown time (HKDT), desiccation and starvation resistance. In agreement with other studies, we found that acclimation to one stress typically increased resistance for that same stress experienced later in life. A more novel outcome, however, is that here we also found substantial evidence for cross-tolerance. For example, we found an improvement in heat tolerance (critical thermal maxima, CTmax ) following starvation or desiccation hardening and improved desiccation resistance following cold acclimation, indicating pronounced cross-tolerance to these environmental stressors for the traits examined. We also found that two different traits of the same stress resistance differed in their responsiveness to the same stress conditions (e.g. HKDT was less cross-resistant than CTmax ). The results of this study have two major implications that are of broader importance: (i) that these traits likely co-evolved to cope with diverse or simultaneous stressors, and (ii) that a set of common underlying physiological mechanisms might exist between apparently divergent stress responses in this species. This species may prove to be a valuable model for future work on the evolutionary and mechanistic basis of cross-tolerance.
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- N Gotcha
- Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Sciences, Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST), Palapye, Botswana
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- Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, Centre for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Sciences, Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST), Palapye, Botswana
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Anderson RCO, Andrade DV. Trading heat and hops for water: Dehydration effects on locomotor performance, thermal limits, and thermoregulatory behavior of a terrestrial toad. Ecol Evol 2017; 7:9066-9075. [PMID: 29152198 PMCID: PMC5677477 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2017] [Revised: 06/12/2017] [Accepted: 06/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Due to their highly permeable skin and ectothermy, terrestrial amphibians are challenged by compromises between water balance and body temperature regulation. The way in which such compromises are accommodated, under a range of temperatures and dehydration levels, impacts importantly the behavior and ecology of amphibians. Thus, using the terrestrial toad Rhinella schneideri as a model organism, the goals of this study were twofold. First, we determined how the thermal sensitivity of a centrally relevant trait-locomotion-was affected by dehydration. Secondly, we examined the effects of the same levels of dehydration on thermal preference and thermal tolerance. As dehydration becomes more severe, the optimal temperature for locomotor performance was lowered and performance breadth narrower. Similarly, dehydration was accompanied by a decrease in the thermal tolerance range. Such a decrease was caused by both an increase in the critical minimal temperature and a decrease in the thermal maximal temperature, with the latter changing more markedly. In general, our results show that the negative effects of dehydration on behavioral performance and thermal tolerance are, at least partially, counteracted by concurrent adjustments in thermal preference. We discuss some of the potential implications of this observation for the conservation of anuran amphibians.
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- Rodolfo C O Anderson
- Departamento de ZoologiaInstituto de Biociências Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) Rio Claro São Paulo Brasil
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- Departamento de ZoologiaInstituto de Biociências Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) Rio Claro São Paulo Brasil
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Lobo JM. The use of occurrence data to predict the effects of climate change on insects. CURRENT OPINION IN INSECT SCIENCE 2016; 17:62-68. [PMID: 27720075 DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2016.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2016] [Revised: 07/21/2016] [Accepted: 07/22/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Experimental information on the roles played by climatic factors in determining the ecology and distribution of insect species is scarce. This has stimulated the increasing use of the climatic characteristics of the localities in which the species are observed to derive predictions under different climatic scenarios (the so called species-distribution models or SDMs). This text reviews the main limitations of these correlative models when they are applied to organisms, such as insects, that are characterized by a high degree of collector bias and incompleteness. It is argued that SDMs must rely solely on presence information, rejecting the use of background or pseudoabsences, and that we are not predicting the future distribution of a species but exploring the future location of the climatic conditions in which a species was observed. The scarcity and bias of the available occurrence information in insects as well as our ignorance about the non-climatic factors delimiting species ranges forces us to be extremely careful. It is therefore desirable to avoid the use of central tendency measures reflecting supposed optimum niche conditions because they are particularly dependent on the quantity and biases of the occurrence information. The use of simple algorithms and procedures aimed at extracting information on environmental limits from the available occurrences would be more convenient in this case.
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- Jorge M Lobo
- Department of Biogeography and Global Change, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), c/José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain.
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