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Contrasting patterns of fig wasp communities along Mt. Wilhelm, Papua New Guinea

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F20%3A43901174" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/20:43901174 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • 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&apos; 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&apos;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

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    10618 - Ecology

Result continuities

  • Project

  • 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

  • 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