J 2020

Warming erodes individual-level variability in life history responses to predation risk in larvae of the mayflyCloeon dipterum

ŠUPINA, Jan, Jindřiška BOJKOVÁ and David S. BOUKAL

Basic information

Original name

Warming erodes individual-level variability in life history responses to predation risk in larvae of the mayflyCloeon dipterum

Authors

ŠUPINA, Jan (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jindřiška BOJKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and David S. BOUKAL (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

Freshwater Biology, HOBOKEN, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 2020, 0046-5070

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10617 Marine biology, freshwater biology, limnology

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 3.809

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/20:00114483

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

UT WoS

000569341800001

Keywords in English

climate change; cohort splitting; development; growth rate; metabolic scope

Tags

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 29/4/2021 17:37, Mgr. Marie Šípková, DiS.

Abstract

V originále

Warming and predation risk are ubiquitous environmental factors that can modify life histories and population dynamics of aquatic ectotherms. While separate responses to each of these factors are well understood, their joint effects on individual life histories and population dynamics remain largely unexplored. Current theory predicts that the magnitude of prey behavioural, physiological, and life history responses to predation risk should diminish with warming due to the reduced metabolic scope. However, empirical support for this prediction remains equivocal, and experiments covering a substantial proportion of individual prey ontogeny until maturation are lacking. To fill these gaps, we ran a laboratory experiment to investigate how warming and non-consumptive predation risk influence life history responses in the larvae of the mayflyCloeon dipterum, an aquatic insect with highly plastic development. We reared larvae of varying initial sizes at three temperatures (21, 24, and 27 degrees C) in a risk-free environment and under predation risk signalled by chemical cues from dragonfly larvae (Aeshna cyanea), and followed their individual survival, growth, and development until emergence. SomeC. dipterumlarvae substantially prolonged their development and the proportion of theseslowindividuals declined rapidly with temperature and increased with predation risk. We attribute this response to cohort splitting, a common life history strategy of aquatic insects and other taxa in unpredictable environment. Growth, development, and maturation varied predictably with temperature in thefastlarvae that did not prolong their development. They grew and developed faster but matured at smaller sizes with increasing temperature. Predation risk tended to slow down individual growth and development in line with the reduced metabolic scope hypothesis, but the differences were relatively minor and observable only at 21 degrees C. Survival to subimago increased with predation risk, possibly due to indirect effects mediated by dissolved micronutrients, but did not vary significantly with temperature. Survival also tended to be higher in theslowindividuals. This partly compensated for a smaller final size relative to thefastindividuals and made both strategies comparable in overall fitness. Our results show that warming may erode individual-level variability in life history responses to predation risk. This implies that warming can synchronise population dynamics and consequently make such populations more vulnerable to unpredictable disturbances.

Links

GA20-17305S, research and development project
Name: Klimaticky podmíněná homogenizace vodních bezobratlých testovaná na třech modelových systémech a historických datech
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
MUNI/A/0816/2017, interní kód MU
Name: Výzkum ekologicko-evolučních vztahů bezobratlých živočichů (Acronym: EKOLINKS)
Investor: Masaryk University, Category A