High elevation insect communities face shifting ecological and evolutionary landscapes
| Autor: | Alisha A. Shah, Michael E. Dillon, H. Arthur Woods, Scott Hotaling |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine Insecta Climate Change media_common.quotation_subject Evolutionary change Climate change Insect 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences 03 medical and health sciences High elevation Animals Ecosystem Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics media_common biology Community Phenology Ecology Altitude fungi Temperature Insect physiology biology.organism_classification Biological Evolution 030104 developmental biology Insect Science Animal Distribution |
| Zdroj: | Current Opinion in Insect Science. 41:1-6 |
| ISSN: | 2214-5745 |
| Popis: | Climate change is proceeding rapidly in high mountain regions worldwide. Rising temperatures will impact insect physiology and associated fitness and will shift populations in space and time, thereby altering community interactions and composition. Shifts in space are expected as insects move upslope to escape warming temperatures and shifts in time will occur with changes in phenology of resident high-elevation insects. Clearly, spatiotemporal shifts will not affect all species equally. Terrestrial insects may have more opportunities than aquatic insects to exploit microhabitats, potentially buffering them from warming. Such responses of insects to warming may also fuel evolutionary change, including hitchhiking of maladaptive alleles and genetic rescue. Together, these considerations suggest a striking restructuring of high-elevation insect communities that remains largely unstudied. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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