ŠUPINA, Jan, Jindřiška BOJKOVÁ and David S. BOUKAL. Environmental stressors alter multiple determinants of individual reproductive output in the acid-tolerant mayfly Leptophlebia vespertina. Ecological Entomology. Hoboken: Wiley, 2022, vol. 47, No 3, p. 488-500. ISSN 0307-6946. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/een.13133.
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Original name Environmental stressors alter multiple determinants of individual reproductive output in the acid-tolerant mayfly Leptophlebia vespertina
Authors ŠUPINA, Jan (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jindřiška BOJKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and David S. BOUKAL.
Edition Ecological Entomology, Hoboken, Wiley, 2022, 0307-6946.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10616 Entomology
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 2.200
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/22:00125793
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/een.13133
UT WoS 000752822400001
Keywords in English acidification; density dependence; fecundity; offspring size; reproductive investment; semelparity
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Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Marie Šípková, DiS., učo 437722. Changed: 1/6/2022 15:25.
Abstract
1. Environmental stressors such as acidification modify community composition in freshwater habitats through their direct and indirect effects on individuals. However, the effect of acidification on various aspects of individual fitness is poorly known in aquatic insects, a key group in many freshwater habitats. 2. Here, the influence of acidification (acidity and Al toxicity), food quality and habitat properties on the reproduction of an acid-tolerant mayfly Leptophlebia vespertina (Linnaeus, 1758) in a group of Central European lakes is explored. The focus is on last-instar larvae as the short-lived, semelparous adults cannot mitigate stress experienced by the larvae. 3. It is shown that the environment affects multiple determinants of individual reproductive output both directly by affecting body size and fecundity in last-instar larvae, and indirectly by releasing the larvae from density dependence. Populations tended to be denser in more acidic sites and individuals in denser populations were substantially smaller and had lower size-dependent fecundity and reproductive effort. All else being equal, larvae from colder sites were larger, suggesting an important role of the temperature-size rule in this species. Size-dependent fecundity and reproductive effort increased with better food conditions as expected, but neither reproductive measure was affected by acidity or temperature. Finally, a weak egg size-number trade-off with slightly smaller eggs in more fecund females was detected. 4. These results imply that indirect ecological feedbacks and food quality, rather than the direct effects of stressful environment, may dominate the effects of environmental stressors on the reproductive output of acid-tolerant species such as L. vespertina.
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GA20-17305S, research and development projectName: Klimaticky podmíněná homogenizace vodních bezobratlých testovaná na třech modelových systémech a historických datech
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
MUNI/A/0816/2017, interní kód MUName: Výzkum ekologicko-evolučních vztahů bezobratlých živočichů (Acronym: EKOLINKS)
Investor: Masaryk University, Category A
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