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Detecting the elusive cost of parasites on fig sed production

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F18%3A00490365" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/18:00490365 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1146609X17300280" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1146609X17300280</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2018.03.002" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.actao.2018.03.002</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Detecting the elusive cost of parasites on fig sed production

  • Original language description

    Mutualisms provide essential ecosystem functions such as pollination and contribute considerably to global biodiversity. However, they are also exploited by parasites that remove resources and thus impose costs on one or both of the mutualistic partners. The fig/pollinator interaction is a classic obligate mutualism, it is pantropical and involves >750 Ficus species and their host-specific pollinating wasps (family Agaonidae). Figs also host parasites of the mutualism that should consume pollinators or seeds, depending on their larval ecology. We collected data from a large crop of figs on Ficus glandifera var. brachysyce in a Sulawesi rainforest with an unusually high number of Eukoebelea sp. parasites. We found that these parasites have a significant negative correlation with fig seed production as well as with pollinator offspring production. Eukoebelea wasps form the basal genus in subfamily Sycophaginae (Chalcidoidea) and their larval biology is considered unknown. Our analysis suggests that they feed as flower gallers and impose direct costs on the fig tree, but a strategy including the consumption of pollinator larvae cannot be ruled out. We also present baseline data on the composition of the fig wasp community associated with F. glandifera var brachysyce and light trap catch data.

  • 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

    <a href="/en/project/GA15-24571S" target="_blank" >GA15-24571S: The role of symbionts and pollinating insects in plant speciation along altitudinal gradients</a><br>

  • Continuities

    P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Others

  • Publication year

    2018

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology

  • ISSN

    1146-609X

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    90

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    JUL 01

  • Country of publishing house

    FR - FRANCE

  • Number of pages

    6

  • Pages from-to

    69-74

  • UT code for WoS article

    000449902100010

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85045022444