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Male ant reproductive investment in a seasonal wet tropical forest: Consequences of future climate change

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F22%3A00558774" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/22:00558774 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Alternative codes found

    RIV/60076658:12310/22:43905005

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0266222&type=printable" target="_blank" >https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0266222&type=printable</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266222" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0266222</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Male ant reproductive investment in a seasonal wet tropical forest: Consequences of future climate change

  • Original language description

    Tropical forests sustain many ant species whose mating events often involve conspicuous flying swarms of winged gynes and males. The success of these reproductive flights depends on environmental variables and determines the maintenance of local ant diversity. However, we lack a strong understanding of the role of environmental variables in shaping the phenology of these flights. Using a combination of community-level analyses and a time-series model on male abundance, we studied male ant phenology in a seasonally wet lowland rainforest in the Panama Canal. The male flights of 161 ant species, sampled with 10 Malaise traps during 58 consecutive weeks (from August 2014 to September 2015), varied widely in number (mean = 9.8 weeks, median = 4, range = 1 to 58). Those species abundant enough for analysis (n = 97) flew mainly towards the end of the dry season and at the start of the rainy season. While litterfall, rain, temperature, and air humidity explained community composition, the time-series model estimators elucidated more complex patterns of reproductive investment across the entire year. For example, male abundance increased in weeks when maximum daily temperature increased and in wet weeks during the dry season. On the contrary, male abundance decreased in periods when rain receded (e.g., at the start of the dry season), in periods when rain fell daily (e.g., right after the beginning of the wet season), or when there was an increase in the short-term rate of litterfall (e.g., at the end of the dry season). Together, these results suggest that the BCI ant community is adapted to the dry/wet transition as the best timing of reproductive investment. We hypothesize that current climate change scenarios for tropical regions with higher average temperature, but lower rainfall, may generate phenological mismatches between reproductive flights and the adequate conditions needed for a successful start of the colony.

  • 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/GA20-31295S" target="_blank" >GA20-31295S: Integrating genomic and trophic information into long-term monitoring of tropical insects: pollinators on Barro Colorado Island, Panama</a><br>

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2022

  • Confidentiality

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

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    PLoS ONE

  • ISSN

    1932-6203

  • e-ISSN

    1932-6203

  • Volume of the periodical

    17

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    3

  • Country of publishing house

    US - UNITED STATES

  • Number of pages

    13

  • Pages from-to

    e0266222

  • UT code for WoS article

    000799828800080

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85127450919