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Effects of climate on phenological synchrony between butterflies and their host plants

Posledovich, Diana, 1984- (författare)
Stockholms universitet,Zoologiska institutionen,Ecology
Gotthard, Karl, Associate professor (preses)
Stockholms universitet,Zoologiska institutionen
Wiklund, Christer, Professor emeritus (preses)
Stockholms universitet,Zoologiska institutionen
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Ehrlén, Johan, Professor (preses)
Stockholms universitet,Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och botanik
Carol, Boggs, Professor (opponent)
University of South Carolina
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ISBN 9789176491621
Stockholm : Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, 2015
Engelska 16 s.
  • Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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  • Shifts in species’ phenologies and phenological asynchronies between the interacting organisms have received a lot of attention in the context of climate change. Changes in temporal overlap between species, caused by phenological asynchrony, make species depending on one another become so separated in time that they can no longer interact. This may have important consequences both for single species, like fluctuations in abundances, and for the functioning of whole communities by creating mismatches between trophic levels and rearrangements of community structure. This thesis focuses on the impact of temperatures on spring timing and phenological synchrony in a herbivorous insect – host plant system, consisting of the orange tipbutterfly Anthocharis cardamines and five of its Brassicaceae host plant species. Paper I demonstrates that diapause duration and winter thermal conditions can determine the timing of spring emergence in the herbivore, and these traits may differ between species with different feeding strategies. In paper II we show that thermal reaction norms of post-winterdevelopment of A. cardamines display cogradient latitudinal variation.Paper III shows that temperature-mediated phenological plasticity of A. cardamines butterflies and a majority of the most used host plant species is similar within populations originating from different latitudes. Thus, the species’ timing appeared well conserved in response to thermal variation. In paper IV we explored the importance of the butterfly’s adult emergence and thermal conditions on the succeeding part of the butterfly’s life-cycle – larval development. The outcome from the interaction was examined for both the insect and the plant side. The degree in phenological overlap between the female butterflies and host plants as well as temperatures during larval development were found to influence larval development but had no effect on plant reproductive fitness. The four papers of the presented thesis demonstrate that developmental preadaptations, evolvedin a herbivore to maintain phenological synchrony with host plants across yearly variation of spring conditions, can prevent disruption of the interaction under a wide range of temperatures. This indicates that temporary constrained interactions are not always vulnerable to decoupling, particularly if they involve generalist strategy.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Biologi (hsv//swe)
NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Biological Sciences (hsv//eng)

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Phenology
phenological synchrony
Anthocharis cardamines
Pieris napi
latitudinal variation
zoologisk ekologi
Animal Ecology

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