Comprehensive thermal performance curves for yellow dung fly life history traits and the temperature-size-rule
Ambient temperature strongly determines the behaviour, physiology, and life history of all organisms. The technical assessment of organismal thermal niches in form of now so-called thermal performance curves (TPC) thus has a long tradition in biological research. Nevertheless, several traits do not...
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ftunivzuerich:oai:www.zora.uzh.ch:211484 2024-06-23T07:50:44+00:00 Comprehensive thermal performance curves for yellow dung fly life history traits and the temperature-size-rule Blanckenhorn, Wolf U Berger, David Rohner, Patrick T Schäfer, Martin A Akashi, Hiroshi Walters, Richard J 2021-08-01 application/pdf https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/211484/ https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/211484/1/1-s2.0-S0306456521002370-main.pdf https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-211484 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2021.103069 eng eng Elsevier https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/211484/1/1-s2.0-S0306456521002370-main.pdf doi:10.5167/uzh-211484 doi:10.1016/j.jtherbio.2021.103069 info:pmid/34503806 urn:issn:0306-4565 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Blanckenhorn, Wolf U; Berger, David; Rohner, Patrick T; Schäfer, Martin A; Akashi, Hiroshi; Walters, Richard J (2021). Comprehensive thermal performance curves for yellow dung fly life history traits and the temperature-size-rule. Journal of Thermal Biology, 100:103069. Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies 570 Life sciences biology 590 Animals (Zoology) Developmental Biology General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Biochemistry Physiology Journal Article PeerReviewed info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2021 ftunivzuerich https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-21148410.1016/j.jtherbio.2021.103069 2024-05-29T01:12:07Z Ambient temperature strongly determines the behaviour, physiology, and life history of all organisms. The technical assessment of organismal thermal niches in form of now so-called thermal performance curves (TPC) thus has a long tradition in biological research. Nevertheless, several traits do not display the idealized, intuitive dome-shaped TPC, and in practice assessments often do not cover the entire realistic or natural temperature range of an organism. We here illustrate this by presenting comprehensive sex-specific TPCs for the major (juvenile) life history traits of yellow dung flies (Scathophaga stercoraria; Diptera: Scathophagidae). This concerns estimation of prominent biogeographic rules, such as the temperature-size-rule (TSR), the common phenomenon in ectothermic organisms that body size decreases as temperature increases. S. stercoraria shows an untypical asymptotic TPC of continuous body size increase with decreasing temperature without a peak (optimum), thus following the TSR throughout their entire thermal range (unlike several other insects presented here). Egg-to-adult mortality (our best fitness estimator) also shows no intermediate maximum. Both may relate to this fly entering pupal winter diapause below 12 °C. While development time presents a negative exponential relationship with temperature, development rate and growth rate typify the classic TPC form for this fly. The hitherto largely unexplored close relative S. suilla with an even more arctic distribution showed very similar responses, demonstrating large overlap among two ecologically similar, coexisting dung fly species, thus implying limited utility of even complete TPCs for predicting species distribution and coexistence. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic University of Zurich (UZH): ZORA (Zurich Open Repository and Archive Arctic |
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Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies 570 Life sciences biology 590 Animals (Zoology) Developmental Biology General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Biochemistry Physiology Blanckenhorn, Wolf U Berger, David Rohner, Patrick T Schäfer, Martin A Akashi, Hiroshi Walters, Richard J Comprehensive thermal performance curves for yellow dung fly life history traits and the temperature-size-rule |
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Ambient temperature strongly determines the behaviour, physiology, and life history of all organisms. The technical assessment of organismal thermal niches in form of now so-called thermal performance curves (TPC) thus has a long tradition in biological research. Nevertheless, several traits do not display the idealized, intuitive dome-shaped TPC, and in practice assessments often do not cover the entire realistic or natural temperature range of an organism. We here illustrate this by presenting comprehensive sex-specific TPCs for the major (juvenile) life history traits of yellow dung flies (Scathophaga stercoraria; Diptera: Scathophagidae). This concerns estimation of prominent biogeographic rules, such as the temperature-size-rule (TSR), the common phenomenon in ectothermic organisms that body size decreases as temperature increases. S. stercoraria shows an untypical asymptotic TPC of continuous body size increase with decreasing temperature without a peak (optimum), thus following the TSR throughout their entire thermal range (unlike several other insects presented here). Egg-to-adult mortality (our best fitness estimator) also shows no intermediate maximum. Both may relate to this fly entering pupal winter diapause below 12 °C. While development time presents a negative exponential relationship with temperature, development rate and growth rate typify the classic TPC form for this fly. The hitherto largely unexplored close relative S. suilla with an even more arctic distribution showed very similar responses, demonstrating large overlap among two ecologically similar, coexisting dung fly species, thus implying limited utility of even complete TPCs for predicting species distribution and coexistence. |
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Comprehensive thermal performance curves for yellow dung fly life history traits and the temperature-size-rule |
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Comprehensive thermal performance curves for yellow dung fly life history traits and the temperature-size-rule |
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Blanckenhorn, Wolf U; Berger, David; Rohner, Patrick T; Schäfer, Martin A; Akashi, Hiroshi; Walters, Richard J (2021). Comprehensive thermal performance curves for yellow dung fly life history traits and the temperature-size-rule. Journal of Thermal Biology, 100:103069. |
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