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Do plants respond to multi‐year disturbance rhythms and are we missing the beat? 植物是否会对多年的干扰节奏做出反应,我们是否错过了这一节奏?
IF 3.4 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1111/oik.10791
Lance T. Vermeire, Kurt O. Reinhart, Jacqueline Ott
Disturbance seasonality and return interval can create complex interactions of direct and indirect effects on species and ecosystems. Fire is a key grassland disturbance, yet long‐term research examining seasonality and return intervals is limited. A 15‐year experiment testing combinations of fire seasonality (summer, fall, spring) and return interval (2, 3, 6‐year) plus non‐burned controls was conducted in northern mixed prairie to evaluate effects on the plant community. Hesperostipa comata is a native C3 bunchgrass and dominant species in northern mixed prairie and previously observed to be fire‐sensitive. Current‐year aboveground biomass results were generally counter to expectations based on short‐term research. Fire increased H. comata biomass with a strong, rhythmic response pattern to a specific fire seasonality‐return‐interval combination (fall fire at 3‐year return intervals) that periodically increased biomass to more than three times that with no fire. Through the first four post‐fire growing seasons, biomass with summer, fall and spring fire across return intervals was 41, 89 and 93% of that with no fire. Afterward, no fire combination produced less biomass than no fire and recurring patterns emerged with large increases in biomass, particularly with fall fire at 3‐year intervals. Peak biomass years were regularly two growing seasons after 3‐year fall fire and occurred across wet, near‐average and dry conditions. We hypothesize that productivity responses were driven by the combination of demographic processes of seedling recruitment and synchronization of multiple tiller age classes. Because short‐term negative effects were reversed and regular patterns only emerged 5 years after study initiation, more long‐term research evaluating fire regimes is recommended to expand upon tests of individual factors over short periods. This suggestion is based on fire research, but likely applies to multiple forms of disturbance and demonstrates how demographic processes can inform responses for individual species and larger ecosystem functions, such as productivity.
干扰的季节性和回归间隔会对物种和生态系统产生复杂的直接和间接影响。火灾是一种主要的草原干扰,但对火灾季节性和回归间隔的长期研究却很有限。我们在北部混合草原进行了一项为期 15 年的实验,测试了火灾季节性(夏季、秋季、春季)和回归间隔(2 年、3 年、6 年)的组合以及非火灾对照,以评估对植物群落的影响。Hesperostipa comata 是一种原生 C3 束草,也是北部混合草原的优势物种,以前曾被观察到对火敏感。当年的地上生物量结果与短期研究的预期结果基本相反。火灾增加了 H. comata 的生物量,对特定的火灾季节性-回归间隔组合(3 年回归间隔的秋季火灾)具有强烈的、有节奏的反应模式,周期性地将生物量增加到无火灾时的三倍以上。在火灾后的头四个生长季节,夏季、秋季和春季火灾的生物量分别是无火灾的 41%、89% 和 93%。之后,任何火烧组合产生的生物量都低于无火烧,而且出现了生物量大幅增加的反复模式,尤其是每隔 3 年的秋季火烧。生物量峰值年定期出现在 3 年秋季火灾后的两个生长季,并出现在潮湿、接近平均水平和干燥的条件下。我们假设,生产力反应是由幼苗招募和多个分蘖年龄等级同步的人口过程共同驱动的。由于短期的负面影响在研究开始 5 年后才出现逆转和规律性模式,因此建议对火灾制度进行更长期的评估研究,以扩大对短期个别因素的测试。这项建议是基于火灾研究提出的,但很可能适用于多种形式的干扰,并说明了人口统计过程如何为个体物种和更大的生态系统功能(如生产力)的响应提供信息。
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Landscape structures and stand attributes jointly regulate forest productivity 景观结构和林分属性共同调节森林生产力
IF 3.4 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1111/oik.10749
Hengchao Zou, Huayong Zhang
Forest productivity is a crucial integrator of ecosystem functions and services. Although the effects of landscape structure on species richness and stand structure have been extensively studied, how landscape structures affect forest productivity and their interactions with stand‐level attributes, especially in the context of considerable land use change, remain unclear. In this study, we investigated the effects of landscape structures (fragmentation, complexity, and heterogeneity) and their interactions with stand‐level attributes on forest productivity in the conterminous United States across three spatial scales (1–3 km), using an extensive forest inventory dataset from the national forest inventories (NFI) plots. Our results revealed that all landscape indices around selected forest plots significantly increased from 2006 to 2016. Across three scales, forest productivity and stand‐level attributes (number of trees, tree species richness, and structural diversity) exhibited unimodal relationships with landscape fragmentation and complexity, while generally showed positive correlations with landscape heterogeneity. The interactions between landscape structures and stand attributes enhanced the explanatory power of forest productivity. Landscape complexity directly or indirectly reduced forest productivity by decreasing the number of trees and tree species richness, whereas landscape fragmentation and heterogeneity had the opposite effects. Furthermore, landscape heterogeneity and stand age had relatively stronger total effects (the sum of direct and indirect effects) on forest productivity, and their strength increased modestly with spatial scales. However, tree species richness consistently had the lowest total effects. Our study elucidates the complex driving mechanisms of landscape patterns on forest productivity across spatial scales, providing a deeper understanding of ecosystem complexity and responses to accelerating land use changes.
森林生产力是生态系统功能和服务的关键整合因素。尽管景观结构对物种丰富度和林分结构的影响已被广泛研究,但景观结构如何影响森林生产力及其与林分属性的相互作用,尤其是在土地利用发生巨大变化的情况下,仍不清楚。在这项研究中,我们利用国家森林资源清查(NFI)地块的广泛森林资源清查数据集,在三个空间尺度(1-3 公里)上调查了景观结构(破碎度、复杂度和异质性)及其与林分属性之间的相互作用对美国大陆森林生产力的影响。我们的研究结果表明,从 2006 年到 2016 年,所选林地周围的所有景观指数都显著增加。在三个尺度上,森林生产力和林分属性(树木数量、树种丰富度和结构多样性)与景观破碎度和复杂度呈单峰关系,而与景观异质性一般呈正相关关系。景观结构与林分属性之间的相互作用增强了森林生产力的解释力。景观复杂性通过减少树木数量和树种丰富度直接或间接地降低了森林生产力,而景观破碎度和异质性则产生了相反的影响。此外,景观异质性和林分年龄对森林生产力的总效应(直接效应和间接效应的总和)相对较强,且其强度随空间尺度的增加而适度增加。然而,树种丰富度的总效应始终最低。我们的研究阐明了跨空间尺度景观模式对森林生产力的复杂驱动机制,为深入了解生态系统的复杂性和对土地利用加速变化的响应提供了依据。
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Linking fine‐root diameter across root orders with climatic, biological and edaphic factors in the Northern Hemisphere 将北半球各根系的细根直径与气候、生物和土壤因素联系起来
IF 3.4 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1111/oik.10763
Wei Guo, Cunguo Wang, Ivano Brunner, Qinrong Tang, Junni Wang, Yingtong Zhou, Mai‐He Li
The importance of fine‐root diameter for ecosystem functioning is increasingly recognized, yet much remains to be learned about the variation in fine‐root diameter at large scales. We conducted an analysis of fine‐root diameter for five root orders for 1163 plant species to detect patterns in relation to resource availability (e.g. carbon, nitrogen, water and net primary production (NPP)), stress intensity (e.g. plant/soil biodiversity and soil bulk density) and temperature. First‐ to fourth‐order root diameters showed non‐linear relationships with mean annual temperature (except for first‐order root diameter) and/or with latitude. The diameters of the five root orders decreased with increasing mean annual precipitation, but increased with greater NPP, which was the strongest determinant of fine‐root diameter. Increasing soil biodiversity was associated with decreasing diameters of fourth‐ and fifth‐order roots, while greater plant biodiversity was associated with decreasing diameters of first‐ to third‐order roots. Soil total nitrogen concentration had a positive effect on first‐order root diameter but a negative effect on fourth‐ and fifth‐order root diameters. The patterns reversed for soil total phosphorus concentration. First‐ to third‐order and fifth‐order root diameters increased with greater soil bulk density. Second‐ to fourth‐order root diameters increased with higher soil pH. Overall, the variables related to climatic, biological and edaphic factors explained 44–63% of the total variance in the diameters of the different root orders. The unique patterns of plasticity observed in fine‐root diameter across root orders in response to varying environmental conditions contributes to a diversification of plant strategies for nutrient/water acquisition and transport under climate change.
人们日益认识到细根直径对生态系统功能的重要性,但对大尺度下细根直径的变化仍有许多问题需要了解。我们对 1163 种植物的五个根阶的细根直径进行了分析,以检测与资源可用性(如碳、氮、水和净初级生产力)、胁迫强度(如植物/土壤生物多样性和土壤容重)和温度相关的模式。一阶至四阶根系直径与年平均温度(一阶根系直径除外)和/或纬度呈非线性关系。五阶根的直径随着年平均降水量的增加而减小,但随着净生产力的增加而增大,而净生产力是决定细根直径的最大因素。土壤生物多样性的增加与四阶和五阶根直径的减少有关,而植物生物多样性的增加与一阶至三阶根直径的减少有关。土壤全氮浓度对一阶根直径有正向影响,但对四阶和五阶根直径有负向影响。土壤全磷浓度的影响模式则相反。土壤容重越大,一阶至三阶和五阶根直径越大。土壤 pH 值越高,二阶至四阶根系直径越大。总的来说,与气候、生物和环境因素有关的变量解释了不同根阶直径总变异的 44-63%。不同根序的细根直径在不同环境条件下具有独特的可塑性,这有助于植物在气候变化条件下养分/水分获取和运输策略的多样化。
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Importance of accounting for imperfect detection of plants in the estimation of population growth rates 在估算种群增长率时考虑植物检测不完善因素的重要性
IF 3.4 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1111/oik.10708
Jorge A. Martínez‐Villegas, Irene Pisanty, Carlos Martorell, Mariana Hernández‐Apolinar, Teresa Valverde, Luisa A. Granados‐Hernández, Mariana Rodríguez‐Sánchez, J. Jaime Zúñiga‐Vega
Detection of plant individuals is imperfect. Not accounting for this issue can result in biased estimates of demographic parameters as important as population growth rates. In mobile organisms, a common practice is to explicitly account for detection probability during the estimation of most demographic parameters, but no study in plant populations has examined the consequences of ignoring imperfect detectability on the estimation of population growth rates. The lack of accounting for detection probability occurs because plant demographers have frequently assumed that detection is perfect, and because there is a scarcity of studies that formally compare the performance of estimation methods that incorporate detection probabilities with respect to methods that ignore detectabilities. Based on field data of five plant species and data simulations, we compared the performance of three methods that estimate population growth rates, two that do not estimate detection probabilities (direct counts of individuals and the minimum‐number‐alive method) and the other that explicitly accounts for detection probabilities (temporal symmetry models). Our aims were 1) to estimate detection probabilities, and 2) to evaluate the performance of these three methods by calculating bias, accuracy, and precision in their estimates of population growth rates. Our five plant species had imperfect detection. Estimates of population growth rates that explicitly incorporate detectabilities had better performance (less biased estimates, with higher accuracy and precision) than those obtained with the two methods that do not calculate detection probabilities. In these latter methods, bias increases as detection probability decreases. Our findings highlight the importance of using robust analytical methods that account for detection probability of plants during the estimation of critical demographic parameters such as population growth rates. In this way, estimates of plant population parameters will reliably indicate their actual status and quantitative trends.
对植物个体的检测并不完美。不考虑这个问题可能会导致对人口统计参数(如种群增长率)的估计出现偏差。在移动生物中,通常的做法是在估算大多数人口统计参数时明确考虑探测概率,但在植物种群中还没有研究忽视不完全探测性对种群增长率估算的影响。之所以没有考虑探测概率,是因为植物种群统计学家经常假定探测是完美的,也因为很少有研究能正式比较包含探测概率的估算方法与忽略探测概率的方法的性能。基于五个植物物种的实地数据和模拟数据,我们比较了三种估算种群增长率的方法的性能,其中两种方法不估算检测概率(个体直接计数法和最小存活数法),另一种方法明确考虑了检测概率(时间对称模型)。我们的目标是:1)估算检测概率;2)通过计算这三种方法对种群增长率估算的偏差、准确性和精确度来评估其性能。我们的五个植物物种的探测并不完美。与不计算探测概率的两种方法相比,明确包含探测概率的种群增长率估算结果性能更好(估算结果偏差更小、准确度和精确度更高)。在后两种方法中,偏差随着检测概率的降低而增加。我们的研究结果突出表明,在估算种群增长率等关键人口参数时,使用考虑植物检测概率的稳健分析方法非常重要。这样,植物种群参数的估算结果才能可靠地反映其实际状况和数量趋势。
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Evolutionary cycles in a model of nestmate recognition 巢友识别模式中的进化周期
IF 3.4 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-09-10 DOI: 10.1111/oik.10509
Oliver Mitesser, Florian Menzel, Susanne Foitzik, Thomas Schmitt, Thomas Hovestadt
Nestmate recognition is a widespread phenomenon and evolutionary important trait in the social insects. Yet evidence accumulates that the responses to non‐nestmates varies more than previously thought. We present a simple frequency‐dependent cost‐benefit model of nestmate recognition to understand conditions that might or might not favor the evolution of nestmate recognition that is based on cuticular hydrocarbon (CHC) profiles. Costs accounted for are costs for 1) maintaining a functional recognition system and 2) keeping a CHC profile that may be sub‐optimal regarding other functionalities like desiccation control, whereas the benefit of recognition is the prevention of nest raiding by other colonies. Unsurprisingly, the model indicates that recognition systems only evolve if costs are sufficiently low and benefits sufficiently high. In addition, the model suggests that nestmate recognition is more likely to evolve if colony turnover is fast (colony life‐expectancy is low). Our model creates evolutionary cycles that are typically longest under parameter combinations that just allow the evolution of recognition systems at all; the system expresses attributes of a rock‐paper‐scissors game. The model shows that a breakdown of nestmate recognition may occur under changing ecological situations, e.g. as a result of reduced intraspecific competition or increased abiotic stress. We speculate that such effects may be involved in the formation of supercolonies during invasions. Nestmate recognition may have evolved more to prevent interspecific predation or parasitism by antagonists that managed to mimic their host's CHC profile than as a mechanism to prevent exploitation by conspecific colonies.
在社会性昆虫中,巢友识别是一种普遍现象和重要的进化特征。然而,越来越多的证据表明,昆虫对非巢友的反应比以前想象的有更大的差异。我们提出了一个简单的依赖频率的巢友识别成本-收益模型,以了解基于角质烃(CHC)剖面的巢友识别进化可能有利也可能不利的条件。该模型所考虑的成本包括:1)维持一个功能性识别系统的成本;2)保持一个在干燥控制等其他功能方面可能是次优的 CHC 配置文件的成本;而识别的收益则是防止其他巢群的袭巢。不难理解,该模型表明,只有在成本足够低、收益足够高的情况下,识别系统才会进化。此外,该模型还表明,如果蜂群更替快(蜂群预期寿命短),巢友识别系统就更有可能进化。我们的模型所创造的进化周期在参数组合下通常是最长的,而参数组合却只允许识别系统进化;该系统表达了剪刀石头布游戏的属性。该模型表明,在生态环境不断变化的情况下,例如由于种内竞争减少或非生物压力增加,巢友识别系统可能会崩溃。我们推测这种影响可能与入侵过程中超级群体的形成有关。巢友识别的进化可能更多的是为了防止模仿宿主CHC特征的拮抗剂的种间捕食或寄生,而不是作为一种防止同种群落利用的机制。
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Changes in Danish bird communities over four decades of climate and land‐use change 四十年来丹麦鸟类群落在气候和土地使用变化中的变化
IF 3.4 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-08-30 DOI: 10.1111/oik.10697
Charles W. Davison, Carsten Rahbek, Naia Morueta‐Holme
Our understanding of how human activities impact biodiversity comes largely from space‐for‐time substitutions. However, spatial gradients are a poor surrogate for changes through time as they do not account for dynamic processes such as delayed extinction debts. Here we contribute towards filling this research gap by assessing the trajectories of local avian assemblages over 40+ years of climate and land‐use change. Using four decades of volunteer observations in Denmark we investigated long‐term trends of local bird richness, community structure, function, abundance, and biomass to better understand their anthropogenic drivers. Between 1976 and 2020, volunteers recorded ~ 2.4 million birds at 378 routes spanning a median of 15 years (range: 10–44). At the local level, we found a restructuring of bird communities over time (6% change per decade) and declines in abundance (−7% per decade), but stability in biomass, functional diversity, and spatial turnover. Local species richness showed a shallow decline on average. These results provide evidence that temporal turnover and loss of individuals are the most prominent features of recent ecological change in these communities. We found that the rate of local warming was positively associated with trends of species richness and functional diversity, suggesting a potential redistribution of warm‐adapted species. Meanwhile, communities that were becoming more spatially homogenous were associated with urban and farmland areas. In space, environmental changes are often distinct and recognisable, e.g. between forest and farmland. Through time, however, changes can be infrequent, gradual, and non‐linear. Despite these challenges, our results illustrate the power of spatially replicated, long‐term biodiversity monitoring programs for detecting the trends and attributing drivers of local biodiversity change.
我们对人类活动如何影响生物多样性的了解主要来自空间-时间替代。然而,空间梯度并不能很好地替代时间变化,因为它们无法解释诸如延迟灭绝债务等动态过程。在此,我们通过评估当地鸟类在 40 多年的气候和土地利用变化中的活动轨迹,为填补这一研究空白做出了贡献。通过四十年在丹麦的志愿者观察,我们调查了当地鸟类丰富度、群落结构、功能、丰度和生物量的长期趋势,以更好地了解其人为驱动因素。从 1976 年到 2020 年,志愿者在 378 条路线上记录了约 240 万只鸟类,时间跨度中位数为 15 年(范围:10-44)。在地方层面,我们发现鸟类群落随着时间的推移发生了重组(每十年变化 6%),丰度下降(每十年-7%),但生物量、功能多样性和空间周转率保持稳定。当地物种丰富度平均下降幅度较小。这些结果证明,时间更替和个体损失是这些群落近期生态变化的最显著特征。我们发现,当地变暖的速度与物种丰富度和功能多样性的趋势呈正相关,这表明适应暖气候的物种可能会重新分布。同时,在空间上变得更加单一的群落与城市和农田地区有关。在空间上,环境变化通常是明显和可识别的,例如森林和农田之间的变化。然而,从时间上看,变化可能是不频繁的、渐进的和非线性的。尽管存在这些挑战,但我们的研究结果表明,在空间上复制的长期生物多样性监测计划能够发现当地生物多样性变化的趋势和驱动因素。
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Host and parasite intervality in differentially human‐modified habitats 人类改造的不同栖息地中寄主和寄生虫的相互关系
IF 3.4 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-08-30 DOI: 10.1111/oik.10446
Cristina Llopis‐Belenguer, Frida Feijen, Serge Morand, Kittipong Chaisiri, Alexis Ribas, Jukka Jokela
Host–parasite interactions are influenced by present and past eco‐evolutionary interactions and the local environment. An ecological community defines the potential host range of each parasite and the potential parasite diversity of each host species. Past and present processes translate potential to realised interaction niches of parasite and host species. Host–parasite interactions are antagonistic, which may slow the saturation of their interaction niches. Intervality, a property of bipartite networks, measures saturation of interaction niches. Intervality of a community increases as the interaction niches of species of one guild (e.g. hosts) become saturated for their interactions with another guild (e.g. parasites). Characteristics driving intervality in host and parasite communities are largely unknown, as well as the effect of environmental change on intervality of these communities. In our study, we assess if the characteristics ‘phylogenetic relatedness' and ‘overlap in ecological interactions' explain intervality of rodent host–helminth parasite communities. In addition, we contrast intervality of these communities from habitats that differ in their history of human‐driven modification. We performed the analyses for the interaction niches of both parasites and hosts, independently. Our results indicated that host and parasite communities were non‐interval or significantly less interval than expected by chance. Phylogenetic relatedness and overlap in ecological interactions did not explain the maximum values of intervality. We speculate that antagonistic coevolution in host–parasite communities may hinder communities to reach saturation, which would explain why it is difficult to find the characteristics that explain intervality of a community. Interestingly, intervality of the interaction niche of parasites (host range) increased with habitat modification (i.e. saturation increased), whereas intervality of the interaction niche of hosts (parasite diversity) decreased as habitat modification increased. These opposite trends suggest that interaction niches of parasites and hosts respond differently to habitat modification.
宿主与寄生虫之间的相互作用受到现在和过去生态进化相互作用以及当地环境的影响。生态群落确定了每种寄生虫的潜在宿主范围和每种宿主物种的潜在寄生虫多样性。过去和现在的过程将寄生虫和宿主物种的潜在互动壁龛转化为现实。宿主与寄生虫之间的相互作用是拮抗性的,这可能会减缓其相互作用壁龛的饱和度。间隔性是双方位网络的一种特性,用于衡量相互作用壁龛的饱和度。当一个行业(如宿主)的物种与另一个行业(如寄生虫)的相互作用壁龛达到饱和时,群落的间隔性就会增加。宿主和寄生虫群落间性的驱动特征以及环境变化对这些群落间性的影响在很大程度上都是未知的。在我们的研究中,我们评估了 "系统发育相关性 "和 "生态相互作用重叠 "这两个特征是否能解释啮齿动物宿主-螺旋寄生虫群落的互生性。此外,我们还对比了这些群落的相互性,这些群落来自于不同的栖息地,而这些栖息地的人为改造历史各不相同。我们对寄生虫和宿主的相互作用壁龛进行了独立分析。我们的结果表明,寄主和寄生虫群落的非间隔性或间隔性明显低于偶然的预期。系统发育相关性和生态相互作用的重叠并不能解释最大间隔值。我们推测,宿主-寄生虫群落中的拮抗共同进化可能会阻碍群落达到饱和,这就解释了为什么很难找到解释群落间性的特征。有趣的是,寄生虫相互作用生态位(宿主范围)的互变性随着生境改造的增加而增加(即饱和度增加),而宿主相互作用生态位(寄生虫多样性)的互变性则随着生境改造的增加而减少。这些相反的趋势表明,寄生虫和宿主的相互作用生态位对生境改变的反应是不同的。
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Chironomids regulate long‐chain polyunsaturated fatty acid levels independent of lake nutrient or dissolved organic carbon concentrations 摇蚊调节长链多不饱和脂肪酸的含量,不受湖泊营养物质或溶解有机碳浓度的影响
IF 3.4 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.1111/oik.10816
Matthias Pilecky, Aatu Turunen, Mohammad S. Sohrabi, Sadikshya Ghimire, Timo Ilo, Petri Kesti, Simon Vitecek, Lena Fehlinger, Jarkko Akkanen, Sami J. Taipale, Anssi Vainikka, Kimmo K. Kahilainen, Martin J. Kainz, Ursula Strandberg
Chironomids are keystone primary benthic consumers with semi‐aquatic life cycles. They support aquatic and terrestrial consumers at higher trophic levels by conveying dietary nutrients, such as fatty acids. In this study, we combined field sampling and laboratory experiments to examine the effects of environmental parameters, including diet, on fatty acid composition and metabolism in chironomid larvae and imagines. Results from 53 lakes showed that lake size, depth, dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations, and trophic state had only marginal effects on the content of long‐chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC‐PUFA) in chironomids. Compound‐specific stable hydrogen isotope analyses confirmed that chironomids actively bioconvert dietary fatty acid precursors to LC‐PUFA in all lake types, independent of nutrient or DOC concentrations. Moreover, fatty acid‐specific stable carbon isotope data indicated that the diet of chironomids was subsidized, particularly in oligotrophic lakes in spring, by terrestrial C18 fatty acid precursors that were converted to LC‐PUFA. Data from feeding experiments further confirmed that decreased dietary availability of LC‐PUFA enhanced the conversion of dietary short‐chain precursors to LC‐PUFA. These results suggest that chironomids are PUFA regulators that can sustain LC‐PUFA levels under varying environmental conditions. Furthermore, our results indicate that they bioconvert terrestrial low‐quality material to high‐quality resources, which, via chironomid emergence, support terrestrial food webs. Chironomids are abundant and widespread, and thus, the trophic transfer of LC‐PUFA can have significant implications for the fitness and production of upper trophic level consumers in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
摇蚊是具有半水生生命周期的关键性初级底栖消费者。它们通过输送食物营养物质(如脂肪酸)来支持更高营养级的水生和陆生消费者。在这项研究中,我们结合实地取样和实验室实验,考察了环境参数(包括食物)对摇蚊幼虫和想象体脂肪酸组成和新陈代谢的影响。53个湖泊的研究结果表明,湖泊大小、深度、溶解有机碳(DOC)浓度和营养状态对摇蚊体内长链多不饱和脂肪酸(LC-PUFA)含量的影响微乎其微。特定化合物的稳定氢同位素分析证实,在所有湖泊类型中,摇蚊都能积极地将食物中的脂肪酸前体生物转化为LC-PUFA,这与营养物质或DOC浓度无关。此外,脂肪酸特异性稳定碳同位素数据表明,摇蚊的食物得到了陆地 C18 脂肪酸前体转化为 LC-PUFA 的补充,尤其是在春季的低营养湖泊中。摄食实验数据进一步证实,膳食中低聚磷酸的减少会促进膳食中短链脂肪酸前体向低聚磷酸的转化。这些结果表明,摇蚊是一种 PUFA 调节器,可以在不同的环境条件下维持 LC-PUFA 的水平。此外,我们的研究结果表明,摇蚊能将陆地上的低质量物质生物转化为高质量资源,并通过摇蚊的出现支持陆地食物网。摇蚊数量众多,分布广泛,因此,低碳-PUFA的营养转移对水生和陆生生态系统中上层营养级消费者的适应性和生产具有重要影响。
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Scavenging and social interaction of an apex avian scavenger is governed by bioregional and seasonal variation 鸟类顶级食腐动物的食腐和社会互动受生物区域和季节变化的影响
IF 3.4 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-08-16 DOI: 10.1111/oik.10826
Niraj Meisuria, Emma E. Spencer, Rhys J. Cairncross, Mathew S. Crowther, Thomas M. Newsome
Apex scavengers can perform an important ecosystem service by rapidly removing carrion, in turn regulating nutrient cycling linked to carcass decomposition. Yet, our understanding of the biotic and abiotic factors that influence rates of apex scavenging and their behaviour around carrion remains limited, in part because of the absence of replicated studies across different bioregions, habitats and seasons. Here, we examine the use of carrion by one of Australia's apex scavengers, the wedge‐tailed eagle Aquila audax, and uncover the extent and consequences of their social interactions at carrion. We applied a standardised design to monitor 120 kangaroo (Family: Macropodidae) carcasses using camera traps across contrasting bioregions (desert, forest and alpine), habitats (open and closed canopy) and seasons (warm and cool). We predicted that wedge‐tailed eagles would discover carcasses quicker in open habitats, and that intrinsic carrion value (ICV), or the desirability of carrion, would be related to dietary stress as a function of productivity and season (i.e. we expected to see increased carcass use by eagles in the less productive desert bioregion and in cooler seasons). Across all bioregions, we found that wedge‐tailed eagles discovered carcasses in open habitats 2.7 times faster than in closed habitats and 5.3 times faster in cool seasons compared with warm seasons. Scavenging was less likely to occur in open environments, was more frequent in cool seasons and in the desert bioregion. ICV largely governed social interactions; there were more aggressive encounters between wedge‐tailed eagles during cool seasons and in the desert bioregion. Our results highlight how bioregional, habitat, and seasonal variation can drive scavenging rates and social interactions between conspecific apex scavengers. Further studies considering both carrion use and corresponding behavioural interactions will enhance our understanding of how carrion contributes to shaping interactions between and within species groups as well as scavenger communities more broadly.
顶端食腐动物可以通过快速清除腐肉来提供重要的生态系统服务,进而调节与尸体分解相关的营养循环。然而,我们对影响顶端食腐动物清除率及其围绕腐肉的行为的生物和非生物因素的了解仍然有限,部分原因是缺乏不同生物区域、栖息地和季节的重复研究。在这里,我们研究了澳大利亚的顶级食腐动物之一--楔尾鹰 Aquila audax 对腐肉的利用,并揭示了它们在腐肉边的社会互动的程度和后果。我们采用标准化设计,在不同的生物区(沙漠、森林和高山)、栖息地(开阔和封闭树冠)和季节(温暖和寒冷)使用相机陷阱监测了 120 只袋鼠(科:袋鼬属)的尸体。我们预测,楔尾鹰在开阔的栖息地会更快地发现尸体,而内在腐肉价值(ICV)或腐肉的可取性将与饮食压力有关,是生产力和季节的函数(即我们预计在生产力较低的沙漠生物区和较凉爽的季节,鹰对尸体的利用会增加)。在所有生物区中,我们发现楔尾鹰在开阔栖息地发现尸体的速度是在封闭栖息地的2.7倍,在凉爽季节发现尸体的速度是在温暖季节的5.3倍。清道夫行为在开放环境中较少发生,在凉爽季节和沙漠生物区更为频繁。ICV在很大程度上决定了社会交往;在凉爽季节和沙漠生物区,楔尾鹰之间的攻击性相遇更多。我们的研究结果突显了生物区系、栖息地和季节性变化如何驱动同种顶级食腐动物之间的食腐率和社会互动。进一步的研究将考虑腐肉的使用和相应的行为互动,这将加深我们对腐肉如何在物种群之间、物种群内部以及更广泛的食腐动物群落中形成互动关系的理解。
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Estimated missing interactions change the structure and alter species roles in one of the world's largest seed‐dispersal networks 估计缺失的相互作用改变了世界上最大的种子传播网络之一的结构,并改变了物种的作用
IF 3.4 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-08-16 DOI: 10.1111/oik.10521
André Nunes Martinez, Mathias Mistretta Pires
Ecological interactions between species can affect the performance of individuals, influence ecological and evolutionary dynamics of populations, and ultimately shape community structure. Therefore, documenting and studying interactions is necessary for a better comprehension of ecological patterns. Yet, sampling interactions in the field is challenging. Even with extensive sampling efforts we can hardly obtain a comprehensive picture of which species interact with each other. Such missing interactions can produce substantial gaps that affect how we perceive and interpret the network formed by species interactions and the roles of individual species within those networks. In this study we propose two methods that combine data on species interactions with information on species traits and phylogenies to estimate potentially missing interactions. We use one of the largest datasets on plant‐frugivore interactions, depicting thousands of interactions between birds and plants in the Atlantic Forest hotspot, to test those methods. Then, we analyze how adding newly estimated interactions change the network's overall structure and the topological importance of each species within the seed‐dispersal network. We show that estimated missing interactions more than tripled the number of interactions in the network and impact the general topological properties of the network increasing nestedness and reducing modularity. Both methods generated networks with a similar structure and were effective in estimating new interactions, accurately predicting known interactions without overestimating interactions in place of true absences. More importantly, added interactions changed our perception on the topological role of species, with several undersampled species earning novel interactions and becoming more central to network structure. This shows that estimating missing interactions can be helpful to get a more complete idea of how a network may look like, besides helping to inform which interactions should be the focus of further sampling efforts.
物种之间的生态相互作用会影响个体的表现,影响种群的生态和进化动态,并最终形成群落结构。因此,为了更好地理解生态模式,有必要记录和研究相互作用。然而,在野外对相互作用进行取样具有挑战性。即使进行了大量取样工作,我们也很难全面了解哪些物种之间存在相互作用。这种缺失的相互作用会产生巨大的空白,影响我们对物种相互作用所形成的网络以及单个物种在这些网络中的作用的认识和解释。在这项研究中,我们提出了两种方法,将物种相互作用数据与物种特征和系统发育信息结合起来,估算可能缺失的相互作用。我们使用最大的植物-食草动物相互作用数据集之一来测试这些方法,该数据集描述了大西洋森林热点地区数千种鸟类与植物之间的相互作用。然后,我们分析了添加新估算的相互作用会如何改变网络的整体结构以及种子传播网络中每个物种的拓扑重要性。我们发现,估计的缺失交互作用使网络中的交互作用数量增加了两倍多,并影响了网络的总体拓扑特性,增加了嵌套性,降低了模块性。这两种方法生成的网络结构相似,都能有效估计新的相互作用,准确预测已知的相互作用,而不会高估取代真实缺失的相互作用。更重要的是,新增的相互作用改变了我们对物种拓扑作用的看法,一些取样不足的物种获得了新的相互作用,并成为网络结构的核心。这表明,估计缺失的相互作用有助于更全面地了解一个网络可能是怎样的,此外还有助于了解哪些相互作用应该成为进一步取样工作的重点。
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