| Insect responses to host plant provision beyond natural boundaries: latitudinal and altitudinal variation in a Chinese fig wasp community | |
Wang, Rong; Compton, Stephen G.; Quinnell, Rupert J.; Peng, Yan-Qiong ; Barwell, Louise; Chen, Yan
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| 2015 | |
| Source Publication | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
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| ISSN | 2045-7758 |
| Volume | 5Issue:17Pages:3642-3656 |
| Abstract | Many plants are grown outside their natural ranges. Plantings adjacent to native ranges provide an opportunity to monitor community assembly among associated insects and their parasitoids in novel environments, to determine whether gradients in species richness emerge and to examine their consequences for host plant reproductive success. We recorded the fig wasps (Chalcidoidea) associated with a single plant resource (ovules of Ficus microcarpa) along a 1200km transect in southwest China that extended for 1000km beyond the tree's natural northern range margin. The fig wasps included the tree's agaonid pollinator and other species that feed on the ovules or are their parasitoids. Phytophagous fig wasps (12 species) were more numerous than parasitoids (nine species). The proportion of figs occupied by fig wasps declined with increasing latitude, as did the proportion of utilized ovules in occupied figs. Species richness, diversity, and abundance of fig wasps also significantly changed along both latitudinal and altitudinal gradients. Parasitoids declined more steeply with latitude than phytophages. Seed production declined beyond the natural northern range margin, and at high elevation, because pollinator fig wasps became rare or absent. This suggests that pollinator climatic tolerances helped limit the tree's natural distribution, although competition with another species may have excluded pollinators at the highest altitude site. Isolation by distance may prevent colonization of northern sites by some fig wasps and act in combination with direct and host-mediated climatic effects to generate gradients in community composition, with parasitoids inherently more sensitive because of declines in the abundance of potential hosts. |
| Keyword | Agaonidae Climate Tolerance Ficus Microcarpa Gall Latitudinal Gradient Parasitoid Trophic Level |
| Funding Organization | Natural Science Foundation of China [31270387]; Education Department of Sichuan Province [11ZA162]; Innovative Research Team by Sichuan Provincial Department of Education [13TD0015] |
| Language | 英语 |
| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | https://ir.xtbg.ac.cn/handle/353005/9365 |
| Collection | 协同进化组 |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Wang, Rong,Compton, Stephen G.,Quinnell, Rupert J.,et al. Insect responses to host plant provision beyond natural boundaries: latitudinal and altitudinal variation in a Chinese fig wasp community[J]. ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION,2015,5(17):3642-3656. |
| APA | Wang, Rong,Compton, Stephen G.,Quinnell, Rupert J.,Peng, Yan-Qiong,Barwell, Louise,&Chen, Yan.(2015).Insect responses to host plant provision beyond natural boundaries: latitudinal and altitudinal variation in a Chinese fig wasp community.ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION,5(17),3642-3656. |
| MLA | Wang, Rong,et al."Insect responses to host plant provision beyond natural boundaries: latitudinal and altitudinal variation in a Chinese fig wasp community".ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 5.17(2015):3642-3656. |
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