Interactions of climate change and species

Visser, Marcel E.

doi:10.1038/nature18905

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“…Furthermore, climate change is altering the timing and temporal overlap of interacting species worldwide, leading to non-stationary (directional) changes in timing of interactions in aquatic and terrestrial systems across a wide range of taxa and types of interactions (Walther et al 2002;Parmesan & Yohe 2003;Parmesan 2006;Durant et al 2007;Thackeray et al 2016;Cohen et al 2018). Despite recent advances emphasizing the importance of timing for key coexistence mechanisms (Godoy & Levine 2014), it remains unclear how changes in the timing of species interactions influence the long-term dynamic and structure of communities, species coexistence, and maintenance of biodiversity (Forrest & Miller-Rushing 2010;Wolkovich et al 2014;Visser 2016).…”

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The role of seasonal timing and phenological shifts for species coexistence

2019

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Shifts in the phenologies of coexistence species are altering the temporal structure of natural communities worldwide. However, predicting how these changes affect the structure and long‐term dynamics of natural communities is challenging because phenology and coexistence theory have largely proceeded independently. Here, I propose a conceptual framework that incorporates seasonal timing of species interactions into a well‐studied competition model to examine how changes in phenologies influence long‐term dynamics of natural communities. Using this framework I demonstrate that persistence and coexistence conditions strongly depend on the difference in species’ mean phenologies and how this difference varies across years. Consequently, shifts in mean and interannual variation in relative phenologies of species can fundamentally alter the outcome of interactions and the potential for persistence and coexistence of competing species. These effects can be predicted by how per‐capita effects scale with differences in species’ phenologies. I outline how this approach can be parameterized with empirical systems and discuss how it fits within the context of current coexistence theory. Overall, this synthesis reveals that phenology of species interactions can play a crucial yet currently understudied role in driving coexistence and biodiversity patterns in natural systems and determine how species will respond to future climate change.

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The role of seasonal timing and phenological shifts for species coexistence

2019

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“…However, parasitoids and their hosts are not alone in their environment and they interact with other species in complex food-webs. Following global-change, novel interactions will appear through shifts in geographic ranges (Van der Putten, 2012) or in phenology (Forrest, 2016;Visser, 2016), altering the abundance, distribution, and functions of species in a food-web (Facey et al, 2014;Gilman et al, 2010;Walther et al, 2002), potentially leading to increased antagonism among natural enemies (predation, parasitism or competition). These changes in food-web interactions are an additional challenge that biological control practitioners will have to face in the upcoming years (Andrew and Hill, 2017;Hance et al, 2007).…”

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“…Thus, if we aim at predicting the effect of global-change on biological control, there is a need to consider such effects not only at the pest-parasitoid scale, but at the whole community scale (e.g. shifts in interactions involving more than two species) (Frago, 2016;Thackeray et al, 2016;Thompson et al, 2013;Tylianakis et al, 2008;van der Putten et al, 2010;Visser, 2016).…”

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Hyperparasitoids as new targets in biological control in a global change context

Tougeron

Tena

2019

Biological Control

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“…Physiological and behavioural thermal preferences often differ between parasitoids and their hosts (van Baaren et al, 2010;Le Lann et al, 2014a;Moiroux et al, 2016;Furlong & Zalucki, 2017), which is common among trophic levels (Berg et al, 2010;Visser, 2016). For example, parasitoids and their hosts differ in thermal acclimation responses when facing microclimatic variations across a landscape (Tougeron et al, 2016;Alford et al, 2017).…”

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“…physiological acclimation, thermal stress) but also for the entire community (e.g. shifts in interactions involving more than two species), from plants to the highest trophic levels (van der Putten et al, 2010;Thackeray et al, 2016;Visser, 2016). Following changes in overwintering strategies, novel interactions will appear that alter the abundances, distributions, and functions of species in a food web (Walther et al, 2002;Gilman et al, 2010), potentially leading to increased antagonism (predation, parasitism, competition) and affecting the fitness of newly interacting species because of a lack of co-evolutionary history (Gilman et al, 2010).…”

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How climate change affects the seasonal ecology of insect parasitoids

Tougeron

Brodeur

Lann

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Ecological Entomology

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1. In the context of global change, modifications in winter conditions may disrupt the seasonal phenology patterns of organisms, modify the synchrony of closely interacting species and lead to unpredictable outcomes at different ecological scales. 2. Parasites are present in almost every food web and their interactions with hosts greatly contribute to ecosystem functioning. Among upper trophic levels of terrestrial ecosystems, insect parasitoids are key components in terms of functioning and species richness. Parasitoids respond to climate change in similar ways to other insects, but their close relationship with their hosts and their particular life cycle – alternating between parasitic and free‐living forms – make them special cases. 3. This article reviews of the mechanisms likely to undergo plastic or evolutionary adjustments when exposed to climate change that could modify insect seasonal strategies. Different scenarios are then proposed for the evolution of parasitoid insect seasonal ecology by exploring three anticipated outcomes of climate change: (i) decreased severity of winter cold; (ii) decreased winter duration; and (iii) increased extreme seasonal climatic events and environmental stochasticity. 4. The capacities of insects to adapt to new environmental conditions, either through plasticity or genetic evolution, are highlighted. They may reduce diapause expression, adapt to changing cues to initiate or terminate diapause, increase voltinism, or develop overwintering bet‐hedging strategies, but parasitoids' responses will be highly constrained by those of their hosts. 5. Changes in the seasonal ecology of parasitoids may have consequences on host–parasitoid synchrony and population cycles, food‐web functioning, and ecosystem services such as biological pest control.

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Interactions of climate change and species

Abstract: At what times of year are phenological events across species sensitive to climatic variables, and how sensitive are they? Answers to these questions emerge from the analysis of a wealth of long-term data sets.M A R C E L E . V I S S E R

Cited by 35 publications

References 7 publications

The role of seasonal timing and phenological shifts for species coexistence

The role of seasonal timing and phenological shifts for species coexistence

Hyperparasitoids as new targets in biological control in a global change context

How climate change affects the seasonal ecology of insect parasitoids

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