Antagonistic effects of intraspecific cooperation and interspecific competition on thermal performance
Understanding how climate-mediated biotic interactions shape thermal niche width is critical in an era of global change. Yet, most previous work on thermal niches has ignored detailed mechanistic information about the relationship between temperature and organismal performance, which can be describe...
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| author | Hsiang-Yu Tsai Dustin R Rubenstein Bo-Fei Chen Mark Liu Shih-Fan Chan De-Pei Chen Syuan-Jyun Sun Tzu-Neng Yuan Sheng-Feng Shen |
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| description | Understanding how climate-mediated biotic interactions shape thermal niche width is critical in an era of global change. Yet, most previous work on thermal niches has ignored detailed mechanistic information about the relationship between temperature and organismal performance, which can be described by a thermal performance curve. Here, we develop a model that predicts the width of thermal performance curves will be narrower in the presence of interspecific competitors, causing a species’ optimal breeding temperature to diverge from that of its competitor. We test this prediction in the Asian burying beetle Nicrophorus nepalensis, confirming that the divergence in actual and optimal breeding temperatures is the result of competition with their primary competitor, blowflies. However, we further show that intraspecific cooperation enables beetles to outcompete blowflies by recovering their optimal breeding temperature. Ultimately, linking abiotic factors and biotic interactions on niche width will be critical for understanding species-specific responses to climate change. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-42f44c34543742b4813675cc1b6b9cba2022-12-22T02:05:08ZengeLife Sciences Publications LtdeLife2050-084X2020-08-01910.7554/eLife.57022Antagonistic effects of intraspecific cooperation and interspecific competition on thermal performanceHsiang-Yu Tsai0Dustin R Rubenstein1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4999-3723Bo-Fei Chen2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3005-8724Mark Liu3Shih-Fan Chan4De-Pei Chen5Syuan-Jyun Sun6Tzu-Neng Yuan7Sheng-Feng Shen8https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0631-6343Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, College of Life Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, TaiwanDepartment of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, United States; Center for Integrative Animal Behavior, Columbia University, New York, United StatesBiodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, TaiwanBiodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, TaiwanBiodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, TaiwanBiodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, College of Life Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, TaiwanBiodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, TaiwanBiodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, TaiwanBiodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, College of Life Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, TaiwanUnderstanding how climate-mediated biotic interactions shape thermal niche width is critical in an era of global change. Yet, most previous work on thermal niches has ignored detailed mechanistic information about the relationship between temperature and organismal performance, which can be described by a thermal performance curve. Here, we develop a model that predicts the width of thermal performance curves will be narrower in the presence of interspecific competitors, causing a species’ optimal breeding temperature to diverge from that of its competitor. We test this prediction in the Asian burying beetle Nicrophorus nepalensis, confirming that the divergence in actual and optimal breeding temperatures is the result of competition with their primary competitor, blowflies. However, we further show that intraspecific cooperation enables beetles to outcompete blowflies by recovering their optimal breeding temperature. Ultimately, linking abiotic factors and biotic interactions on niche width will be critical for understanding species-specific responses to climate change.https://elifesciences.org/articles/57022thermal nicheburying beetlescooperationrealized and fundamental niche |
| spellingShingle | Hsiang-Yu Tsai Dustin R Rubenstein Bo-Fei Chen Mark Liu Shih-Fan Chan De-Pei Chen Syuan-Jyun Sun Tzu-Neng Yuan Sheng-Feng Shen Antagonistic effects of intraspecific cooperation and interspecific competition on thermal performance eLife thermal niche burying beetles cooperation realized and fundamental niche |
| title | Antagonistic effects of intraspecific cooperation and interspecific competition on thermal performance |
| title_full | Antagonistic effects of intraspecific cooperation and interspecific competition on thermal performance |
| title_fullStr | Antagonistic effects of intraspecific cooperation and interspecific competition on thermal performance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Antagonistic effects of intraspecific cooperation and interspecific competition on thermal performance |
| title_short | Antagonistic effects of intraspecific cooperation and interspecific competition on thermal performance |
| title_sort | antagonistic effects of intraspecific cooperation and interspecific competition on thermal performance |
| topic | thermal niche burying beetles cooperation realized and fundamental niche |
| url | https://elifesciences.org/articles/57022 |
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