The relationship between dispersal and pace-of-life at different scales

Abstract

After reading the manuscript and the assessment of the two reviewers, several points were raised that need to be addressed and which I believe will improve the quality of the manuscript. One point I would like to highlight, and on which I agree with both reviewers, is that of how dispersal is assessed and discussed. This point is central to the manuscript and requires clarity. I suggest revision of the manuscript in which the authors need to carefully address the reviewers' comments. With kind regards, Jacques DeereResponse: We would like to thank the recommender for accepting to look at our manuscript. We did our best to address all the points raised by the reviewers, among them the issue of dispersal. All responses are detailed below reviewers' comments. ANSWERS TO COMMENTS FROM ANONYMOUS REVIEWERR1-1: This is a very detailed study of fecundity and other life-history information in many lines of five species from the same genus of parasitoids. The experiments are clearly described and well controlled and the complex statistical analysis is carried out in a clear way with scripts available on GitHub. Response: We thank the anonymous reviewer for this positive assessment of our study and how it was presented and hope that our revised version did answer all of their comments. R1-32: L135 'lines' isn't neededResponse: 'lines' was removed in the revised version as suggested L.169 R1-33: L136 how are the single females selected? Is there an age that can be applied to them? Response: Single healthy females were selected at random in the population. Females were between 24 to 48 hours old. That information was added to the manuscript. (L.161-164; L.170-171) R1-34: L138/140 inconsistency in use of a space between value and units. 10cm and 10 cm. Response: We modified the manuscript to stay consistent by adding spaces between all values and units, according to the International System of Units.R1-35: L140 more detail on the tube needed. What's the internal diameter? Is the end of the tube flush with one of the walls of the rearing vial? Is it clear? Response: We used a clear pipe with an internal diameter of 0.5 cm, going through vials foam caps, without protruding from it. Details were added to the experimental design section. (L.175-179) R1-36: Fig 1 might be better to have a zoomed in picture of eggs to see the darkened ones more clearly.Response: The picture of darkened eggs was added, taking the place of the picture of host egg strips (Figure 1). We also modified the figure as suggested by the second reviewer in comment MT-8 by removing line details (as described in R1-1), now in Supplemental Table S1-1. R1-37: L176 I think noon is pm R1-39: L190 I think lognormal should be hyphenated Response to R1-37 and R1-39: We thank the reviewer for those misspellings and corrected them with Log-Normal in the revised version, as noted in McElreath (2020). (L.248) R1-40: L209-210 I suggest a reference to this way of treating the random line effect Response: We modelled line-level random effects as a variance-covariance matri...

Life-history traits, pace of life and dispersal among and within five species of Trichogramma wasps: a comparative analysis

“…We would like to thank the Biological Resources Center "Egg Parasitoids Collection" (https://doi.org/10.15454/AY4LMT) for providing the Trichogramma lines, training on how to rear them, and for contamination checks at the beginning and the end of the experiment. Preprint version 3 of this article has been peer-reviewed and recommended by Peer Community In Zoology (https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.zool.100206, Deere, 2023).…”