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Beyond body size-ne...
Beyond body size-new traits for new heights in trait-based modelling of predator-prey dynamics
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- Wootton, Kate (author)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Institutionen för ekologi,Department of Ecology,University of Colorado Boulder,Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Ecology, Uppsala, Sweden ; BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States of America
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- Curtsdotter, Alva (author)
- Insect Ecology Lab, Zoology, The University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia ; EkoMod SpA, Comunade Concon, Region de Valparaiso, Chile
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- Jonsson, Tomas (author)
- Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Högskolan i Skövde,Institutionen för biovetenskap,Forskningsmiljön Systembiologi,Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Ecology, Uppsala, Sweden,Ecological Modeling,Institutionen för ekologi,Department of Ecology,University of Skövde
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- Banks, H. T. (author)
- Center for Research in Scientific Computation, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America
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- Bommarco, Riccardo (author)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Institutionen för ekologi,Department of Ecology,Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Ecology, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Roslin, Tomas (author)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Institutionen för ekologi,Department of Ecology,Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Ecology, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Laubmeier, Amanda N. (author)
- Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States of America
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- 2022-07-21
- 2022
- English.
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In: PLOS ONE. - : Public Library of Science. - 1932-6203. ; 17:7 July
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- Food webs map feeding interactions among species, providing a valuable tool for understanding and predicting community dynamics. Using species' body sizes is a promising avenue for parameterizing food-web models, but such approaches have not yet been able to fully recover observed community dynamics. Such discrepancies suggest that traits other than body size also play important roles. For example, differences in species' use of microhabitat or non-consumptive effects of intraguild predators may affect dynamics in ways not captured by body size. In Laubmeier et al. (2018), we developed a dynamic food-web model incorporating microhabitat and non-consumptive predator effects in addition to body size, and used simulations to suggest an optimal sampling design of a mesocosm experiment to test the model. Here, we perform the mesocosm experiment to generate empirical timeseries of insect herbivore and predator abundance dynamics. We minimize least squares error between the model and time-series to determine parameter values of four alternative models, which differ in terms of including vs excluding microhabitat use and non-consumptive predator-predator effects. We use both statistical and expert-knowledge criteria to compare the models and find including both microhabitat use and non-consumptive predatorpredator effects best explains observed aphid and predator population dynamics, followed by the model including microhabitat alone. This ranking suggests that microhabitat plays a larger role in driving population dynamics than non-consumptive predator-predator effects, although both are clearly important. Our results illustrate the importance of additional traits alongside body size in driving trophic interactions. They also point to the need to consider trophic interactions and population dynamics in a wider community context, where non-trophic impacts can dramatically modify the interplay between multiple predators and prey. Overall, we demonstrate the potential for utilizing traits beyond body size to improve traitbased models and the value of iterative cycling between theory, data and experiment to hone current insights into how traits affect food-web dynamics. © 2022 Wootton et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Ekologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Ecology (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Miljövetenskap (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Environmental Sciences (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Annan biologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Other Biological Topics (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- aphid
- article
- body size
- food web
- herbivore
- least square analysis
- mesocosm
- microhabitat
- nonhuman
- population dynamics
- predator
- simulation
- theoretical study
- time series analysis
- animal
- food chain
- herbivory
- insect
- predation
- Animals
- Insecta
- Predatory Behavior
- Ekologisk modellering
- Ecological Modelling Group
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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