1
|
Laine AL, Tylianakis JM. The coevolutionary consequences of biodiversity change. Trends Ecol Evol 2024; 39:745-756. [PMID: 38705768 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2024.04.002] [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: 10/19/2023] [Revised: 04/03/2024] [Accepted: 04/05/2024] [Indexed: 05/07/2024]
Abstract
Coevolutionary selection is a powerful process shaping species interactions and biodiversity. Anthropogenic global environmental change is reshaping planetary biodiversity, including by altering the structure and intensity of interspecific interactions. However, remarkably little is understood of how coevolutionary selection is changing in the process. Here, we outline three interrelated pathways - change in evolutionary potential, change in community composition, and shifts in interaction trait distributions - that are expected to redirect coevolutionary selection under biodiversity change. Assessing how both ecological and evolutionary rules governing species interactions are disrupted under anthropogenic global change is of paramount importance to understand the past, present, and future of Earth's biodiversity.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Anna-Liisa Laine
- Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Viikinkaari 1 (PO Box 65), University of Helsinki, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland.
| | - Jason M Tylianakis
- Bioprotection Aotearoa, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand
| |
Collapse
|
2
|
Cantwell-Jones A, Tylianakis JM, Larson K, Gill RJ. Using individual-based trait frequency distributions to forecast plant-pollinator network responses to environmental change. Ecol Lett 2024; 27:e14368. [PMID: 38247047 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14368] [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: 09/18/2023] [Revised: 01/02/2024] [Accepted: 01/04/2024] [Indexed: 01/23/2024]
Abstract
Determining how and why organisms interact is fundamental to understanding ecosystem responses to future environmental change. To assess the impact on plant-pollinator interactions, recent studies have examined how the effects of environmental change on individual interactions accumulate to generate species-level responses. Here, we review recent developments in using plant-pollinator networks of interacting individuals along with their functional traits, where individuals are nested within species nodes. We highlight how these individual-level, trait-based networks connect intraspecific trait variation (as frequency distributions of multiple traits) with dynamic responses within plant-pollinator communities. This approach can better explain interaction plasticity, and changes to interaction probabilities and network structure over spatiotemporal or other environmental gradients. We argue that only through appreciating such trait-based interaction plasticity can we accurately forecast the potential vulnerability of interactions to future environmental change. We follow this with general guidance on how future studies can collect and analyse high-resolution interaction and trait data, with the hope of improving predictions of future plant-pollinator network responses for targeted and effective conservation.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Aoife Cantwell-Jones
- Georgina Mace Centre for The Living Planet, Department of Life Sciences, Silwood Park, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK
| | - Jason M Tylianakis
- Georgina Mace Centre for The Living Planet, Department of Life Sciences, Silwood Park, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK
- Bioprotection Aotearoa, School of Biological Sciences, Private Bag 4800, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
| | - Keith Larson
- Climate Impacts Research Centre, Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
| | - Richard J Gill
- Georgina Mace Centre for The Living Planet, Department of Life Sciences, Silwood Park, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK
| |
Collapse
|
3
|
Thierry M, Pardikes NA, Lue CH, Lewis OT, Hrček J. Experimental warming influences species abundances in a Drosophila host community through direct effects on species performance rather than altered competition and parasitism. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0245029. [PMID: 33571220 PMCID: PMC7877627 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0245029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2020] [Accepted: 01/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Global warming is expected to have direct effects on species through their sensitivity to temperature, and also via their biotic interactions, with cascading indirect effects on species, communities, and entire ecosystems. To predict the community-level consequences of global climate change we need to understand the relative roles of both the direct and indirect effects of warming. We used a laboratory experiment to investigate how warming affects a tropical community of three species of Drosophila hosts interacting with two species of parasitoids over a single generation. Our experimental design allowed us to distinguish between the direct effects of temperature on host species performance, and indirect effects through altered biotic interactions (competition among hosts and parasitism by parasitoid wasps). Although experimental warming significantly decreased parasitism for all host-parasitoid pairs, the effects of parasitism and competition on host abundances and host frequencies did not vary across temperatures. Instead, effects on host relative abundances were species-specific, with one host species dominating the community at warmer temperatures, irrespective of parasitism and competition treatments. Our results show that temperature shaped a Drosophila host community directly through differences in species’ thermal performance, and not via its influences on biotic interactions.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Mélanie Thierry
- Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
- Department of Ecology, Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
- * E-mail:
| | - Nicholas A. Pardikes
- Department of Ecology, Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
| | - Chia-Hua Lue
- Department of Ecology, Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
| | - Owen T. Lewis
- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
| | - Jan Hrček
- Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
- Department of Ecology, Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
| |
Collapse
|
4
|
The patchwork of evolutionary landscapes. Nat Ecol Evol 2020; 4:672-673. [PMID: 32286502 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-1184-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
|
5
|
Mathé-Hubert H, Kremmer L, Colinet D, Gatti JL, Van Baaren J, Delava É, Poirié M. Variation in the Venom of Parasitic Wasps, Drift, or Selection? Insights From a Multivariate QST Analysis. Front Ecol Evol 2019. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
|
6
|
Tylianakis JM, Morris RJ. Ecological Networks Across Environmental Gradients. ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS 2017. [DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110316-022821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 258] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Jason M. Tylianakis
- Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, United Kingdom
| | - Rebecca J. Morris
- Biological Sciences, Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, United Kingdom
| |
Collapse
|
7
|
Affiliation(s)
- Guadalupe Peralta
- Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas CONICET CC 507 5500 Mendoza Argentina
| |
Collapse
|
8
|
Loxdale HD, Harvey JA. The ‘generalism’ debate: misinterpreting the term in the empirical literature focusing on dietary breadth in insects. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/bij.12816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Hugh D. Loxdale
- School of Biosciences; Cardiff University; The Sir Martin Evans Building Museum Avenue Cardiff CF10 3AX UK
| | - Jeffrey A. Harvey
- Department of Terrestrial Ecology; Netherlands Institute of Ecology; Droevendaalsesteeg 10 6708 PB Wageningen the Netherlands
| |
Collapse
|
9
|
Roslin T, Majaneva S. The use of DNA barcodes in food web construction-terrestrial and aquatic ecologists unite! Genome 2016; 59:603-28. [PMID: 27484156 DOI: 10.1139/gen-2015-0229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
Abstract
By depicting who eats whom, food webs offer descriptions of how groupings in nature (typically species or populations) are linked to each other. For asking questions on how food webs are built and work, we need descriptions of food webs at different levels of resolution. DNA techniques provide opportunities for highly resolved webs. In this paper, we offer an exposé of how DNA-based techniques, and DNA barcodes in particular, have recently been used to construct food web structure in both terrestrial and aquatic systems. We highlight how such techniques can be applied to simultaneously improve the taxonomic resolution of the nodes of the web (i.e., the species), and the links between them (i.e., who eats whom). We end by proposing how DNA barcodes and DNA information may allow new approaches to the construction of larger interaction webs, and overcome some hurdles to achieving adequate sample size. Most importantly, we propose that the joint adoption and development of these techniques may serve to unite approaches to food web studies in aquatic and terrestrial systems-revealing the extent to which food webs in these environments are structured similarly to or differently from each other, and how they are linked by dispersal.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Tomas Roslin
- a Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7044, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden.,b Spatial Foodweb Ecology Group, Department of Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 27, (Latokartanonkaari 5), FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
| | - Sanna Majaneva
- c Centre for Ecology and Evolution in Microbial model Systems (EEMiS), Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Linnaeus University, 39182 Kalmar, Sweden
| |
Collapse
|
10
|
van Nouhuys S. Diversity, population structure, and individual behaviour of parasitoids as seen using molecular markers. CURRENT OPINION IN INSECT SCIENCE 2016; 14:94-99. [PMID: 27436653 DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2016.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2015] [Revised: 02/06/2016] [Accepted: 02/08/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
Abstract
Parasitoids have long been models for host-parasite interactions, and are important in biological control. Neutral molecular markers have become increasingly accessible tools, revealing previously unknown parasitoid diversity. Thus, insect communities are now seen as more speciose. They have also been found to be more complex, based on trophic links detected using bits of parasitoid DNA in hosts, and host DNA in adult parasitoids. At the population level molecular markers are used to determine the influence of factors such as host dynamics on parasitoid population structure. Finally, at the individual level, they are used to identify movement of individuals. Overall molecular markers greatly increase the value of parasitoid samples collected, for both basic and applied research, at all levels of study.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Saskya van Nouhuys
- Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, PO box 65, Helsinki 00014, Finland; Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Comstock Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
| |
Collapse
|
11
|
Inferring biotic interactions from proxies. Trends Ecol Evol 2015; 30:347-56. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.03.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 217] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2015] [Revised: 03/18/2015] [Accepted: 03/19/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
|
12
|
Peralta G, Frost CM, Didham RK, Varsani A, Tylianakis JM. Phylogenetic diversity and co-evolutionary signals among trophic levels change across a habitat edge. J Anim Ecol 2014; 84:364-72. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2014] [Accepted: 09/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Guadalupe Peralta
- School of Biological Sciences; University of Canterbury; Private bag 4800 Christchurch 8140 New Zealand
| | - Carol M. Frost
- School of Biological Sciences; University of Canterbury; Private bag 4800 Christchurch 8140 New Zealand
| | - Raphael K. Didham
- School of Animal Biology; University of Western Australia; 35 Stirling Highway Crawley WA 6009 Australia
- CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences; Centre for Environment and Life Sciences; Underwood Ave Floreat WA 6014 Australia
| | - Arvind Varsani
- School of Biological Sciences; University of Canterbury; Private bag 4800 Christchurch 8140 New Zealand
- Biomolecular Interaction Centre; University of Canterbury; Private Bag 4800 Christchurch 8140 New Zealand
- Electron Microscope Unit; University of Cape Town; Rondebosch Cape Town 7701 South Africa
- Department of Plant Pathology and Emerging Pathogens Institute; University of Florida; PO Box 110680 Gainesville FL 32611-0680 USA
| | - Jason M. Tylianakis
- School of Biological Sciences; University of Canterbury; Private bag 4800 Christchurch 8140 New Zealand
- Department of Life Sciences; Imperial College London; Silwood Park Campus; Buckhurst Road Ascot Berkshire SL5 7PY UK
- Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution; University of Canterbury; Private Bag 4800 Christchurch 8140 New Zealand
| |
Collapse
|
13
|
Zepeda-Paulo FA, Ortiz-Martínez SA, Figueroa CC, Lavandero B. Adaptive evolution of a generalist parasitoid: implications for the effectiveness of biological control agents. Evol Appl 2013; 6:983-99. [PMID: 24062806 PMCID: PMC3779098 DOI: 10.1111/eva.12081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2012] [Accepted: 05/22/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
Abstract
The use of alternative hosts imposes divergent selection pressures on parasitoid populations. In response to selective pressures, these populations may follow different evolutionary trajectories. Divergent natural selection could promote local host adaptation in populations, translating into direct benefits for biological control, thereby increasing their effectiveness on the target host. Alternatively, adaptive phenotypic plasticity could be favored over local adaptation in temporal and spatially heterogeneous environments. We investigated the existence of local host adaptation in Aphidius ervi, an important biological control agent, by examining different traits related to infectivity (preference) and virulence (a proxy of parasitoid fitness) on different aphid-host species. The results showed significant differences in parasitoid infectivity on their natal host compared with the non-natal hosts. However, parasitoids showed a similar high fitness on both natal and non-natal hosts, thus supporting a lack of host adaptation in these introduced parasitoid populations. Our results highlight the role of phenotypic plasticity in fitness-related traits of parasitoids, enabling them to maximize fitness on alternative hosts. This could be used to increase the effectiveness of biological control. In addition, A. ervi females showed significant differences in infectivity and virulence across the tested host range, thus suggesting a possible host phylogeny effect for those traits.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Francisca A Zepeda-Paulo
- Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, Universidad Austral de ChileValdivia, Chile
- Laboratorio de Interacciones Insecto-Planta, Instituto de Biología Vegetal y Biotecnología, Universidad de TalcaTalca, Chile
| | - Sebastián A Ortiz-Martínez
- Laboratorio de Interacciones Insecto-Planta, Instituto de Biología Vegetal y Biotecnología, Universidad de TalcaTalca, Chile
| | - Christian C Figueroa
- Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, Universidad Austral de ChileValdivia, Chile
- Laboratorio de Interacciones Insecto-Planta, Instituto de Biología Vegetal y Biotecnología, Universidad de TalcaTalca, Chile
| | - Blas Lavandero
- Laboratorio de Interacciones Insecto-Planta, Instituto de Biología Vegetal y Biotecnología, Universidad de TalcaTalca, Chile
| |
Collapse
|
14
|
Tomimatsu H, Sasaki T, Kurokawa H, Bridle JR, Fontaine C, Kitano J, Stouffer DB, Vellend M, Bezemer TM, Fukami T, Hadly EA, Heijden MG, Kawata M, Kéfi S, Kraft NJ, McCann KS, Mumby PJ, Nakashizuka T, Petchey OL, Romanuk TN, Suding KN, Takimoto G, Urabe J, Yachi S. FORUM: Sustaining ecosystem functions in a changing world: a call for an integrated approach. J Appl Ecol 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Hiroshi Tomimatsu
- Graduate School of Life Sciences Tohoku University Sendai 980‐8578 Japan
| | - Takehiro Sasaki
- Graduate School of Life Sciences Tohoku University Sendai 980‐8578 Japan
| | - Hiroko Kurokawa
- Graduate School of Life Sciences Tohoku University Sendai 980‐8578 Japan
| | - Jon R. Bridle
- School of Biological Sciences University of Bristol Bristol BS8 1UD UK
| | - Colin Fontaine
- CERSP UMR 7204 Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 75005 Paris France
| | - Jun Kitano
- Ecological Genetics Laboratory National Institute of Genetics Shizuoka 411‐8540 Japan
| | - Daniel B. Stouffer
- Integrative Ecology Group Estación Biológical de Doñana (EBD‐CSIC) c/Américo Vespucio s/n 41092 Sevilla Spain
- School of Biological Sciences University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch 8140 New Zealand
| | - Mark Vellend
- Département de biologie Université de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke Québec J1K 2R1 Canada
| | - T. Martijn Bezemer
- Department of Terrestrial Ecology Netherlands Institute of Ecology PO BOX 50, 6700AB Wageningen The Netherlands
| | - Tadashi Fukami
- Department of Biology Stanford University Stanford CA 94305 USA
| | | | - Marcel G.A. Heijden
- Ecological Farming Systems Research Station ART Agroscope Reckenholz Tänikon 8046 Zurich Switzerland
| | - Masakado Kawata
- Graduate School of Life Sciences Tohoku University Sendai 980‐8578 Japan
| | - Sonia Kéfi
- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution CNRS UMR 5554 Université de Montpellier II Place Eugène Bataillon CC 065 34095 Montpellier France
| | - Nathan J.B. Kraft
- Biodiversity Research Centre University of British Columbia 6270 University Blvd. Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4 Canada
| | - Kevin S. McCann
- Department of Integrative Biology University of Guelph Guelph ON N1G 2W1 Canada
| | - Peter J. Mumby
- School of Biological Sciences University of Queensland St Lucia Qld 4072 Australia
| | - Tohru Nakashizuka
- Graduate School of Life Sciences Tohoku University Sendai 980‐8578 Japan
| | - Owen L. Petchey
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zurich Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich Switzerland
| | - Tamara N. Romanuk
- Department of Biology Dalhousie University Halifax NS B3H 4J1 Canada
| | - Katharine N. Suding
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Irvine Irvine CA 92697‐2525 USA
| | - Gaku Takimoto
- Department of Biology Faculty of Science Toho University Funabashi Chiba 274‐8510 Japan
| | - Jotaro Urabe
- Graduate School of Life Sciences Tohoku University Sendai 980‐8578 Japan
| | - Shigeo Yachi
- Center for Ecological Research Kyoto University Otsu 520‐2113 Japan
| |
Collapse
|