Bugs and Bergmann's rule: a cross-taxon large-scale study reveals idiosyncratic altitudinal and latitudinal body size patterns for different insect taxa
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F24%3A43908876" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/24:43908876 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/entomologia/detail/44/104839/Bugs_and_Bergmanns_rule_a_cross_taxon_large_scale_?af=crossref" target="_blank" >https://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/entomologia/detail/44/104839/Bugs_and_Bergmanns_rule_a_cross_taxon_large_scale_?af=crossref</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/entomologia/2024/2246" target="_blank" >10.1127/entomologia/2024/2246</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Bugs and Bergmann's rule: a cross-taxon large-scale study reveals idiosyncratic altitudinal and latitudinal body size patterns for different insect taxa
Original language description
Bergmann's rule posits that an organism's body size or mass increases with decreasing temperature. While gen-erally established in homeotherms, Bergmann's rule has been largely inconsistent in insects due to limited taxonomic and spatial coverage and variable sampling methods applied to the same taxonomic group. To rectify these shortfalls in tests of Bergmann's rule in insects, we sampled ants, ichneumonid wasps, carabid beetles, and geometrid moths simultaneously from three locations (representing tropical, subtropical, and subalpine altitudinal gradients) across Yunnan, Southwest China, where temperature and productivity generally decline with latitude. We sought generalities in Bergmann's rule in insects by investigating whether community-level altitudinal body size patterns within each location were dependent on geographic locations, microhabitats (forest canopy vs understory), focal taxa (insect families), and taxonomic scale (sub-families within individual families). We found that altitudinal clines, when present, varied across geographic locations; carabids and geometrids showed positive clines in the tropical altitudinal gradient and negative clines in the subtropical and subalpine altitudinal gradients. Understory and canopy geometrids showed similar patterns while different subfami-lies showed variable patterns. Carabid and geometrid body size patterns complied with the combined resource allocation model, which posits that the body size varies with resource availability along altitudinal and latitudinal ranges. Overall, our study revealed idiosyncratic altitudinal and latitudinal body size patterns for different insect taxa. Our study also illus-trates the value of fully standardized, large-scale studies in revealing generalities (or the lack thereof) in Bergmann's rule in insects and we suggest incorporating the natural history and biology of target groups to better explain patterns of body size variation.
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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
10616 - Entomology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Entomologia Generalis
ISSN
0171-8177
e-ISSN
2363-7102
Volume of the periodical
44
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
715-725
UT code for WoS article
001205207600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85201939756