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

Result code in IS VaVaI

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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>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Contrasting patterns of fig wasp ccommunities 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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Type

J_imp - 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

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

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

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

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

US - UNITED STATES

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