Contrasting patterns of fig wasp communities along Mt. Wilhelm, Papua New Guinea
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/20:10419634
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/btp.12763" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/btp.12763</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/btp.12763" target="_blank" >10.1111/btp.12763</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Contrasting patterns of fig wasp communities along Mt. Wilhelm, Papua New Guinea
Original language description
The fig (Moraceae) and pollinating fig wasp (Agaonidae) mutualism is best known as a model system for the study of coevolution in plant-pollinator interactions and its central role in shaping vertebrate communities in tropical forests. Figs also host myriad antagonistic parasitic fig wasps which impose costs on both partners threatening mutualism stability. Spatiotemporal variation in parasitic wasp abundance is a key factor in mitigating these effects. Because fig wasps are temperature sensitive and likely vary in their ability to traverse environmental gradients, we expect community assemblages and abundance of both pollinating and non-pollinating fig wasps to respond to changes along an elevational gradient. In the present study, we compare the fig wasp communities and abundance of three fig species growing along the slopes of the Mount Wilhelm altitudinal gradient in Papua New Guinea. We quantified wasps from over 100 male fig trees and calculated seed set for 55 female trees along each of the species' distribution on the transect. Our results show that the abundance of both pollinating and non-pollinating fig wasps follow a mid-elevation peak, consistent with fig species richness found in the same transect. The patterns, however, are different according to the host's species distribution. Seed set remained relatively constant along the gradient for all species with some decrease along higher elevations, potentially affecting connectivity along the gradient. As suggested for insects in general, temperature and habitat diversity appear to play a fundamental role in the species richness and abundance of fig wasps.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10618 - Ecology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Biotropica
ISSN
0006-3606
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
52
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
323-334
UT code for WoS article
000522130500012
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85082523489