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NSF/NASA Dimensions of Biodiversity The role of taxonomic, functional, genetic, and landscape diversity in food web responses to a changing environment 2013-2018 Anthony R. Ives, UW-Madison Volker C. Radeloff, UW-Madison Kerry M. Oliver, University of Georgia

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Page 1: NSF/NASA Dimensions of Biodiversity The role of taxonomic, functional, genetic, and landscape diversity in food web responses to a changing environment

NSF/NASA Dimensions of Biodiversity

The role of taxonomic, functional, genetic, and landscape diversity in food

web responses to a changing environment

2013-2018

Anthony R. Ives, UW-MadisonVolker C. Radeloff, UW-MadisonKerry M. Oliver, University of GeorgiaJason P. Harmon, North Dakota State University

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How do species respond to environmental change?

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Scale

organization

individualsfood webs

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Scale

organization

individualsfood webs

spaceplants continents

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Scale

organization

individualsfood webs

spaceplants continents

timeevent evolution

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Project components

1. Co-evolution among insects and bacterial symbionts

2. Environmental effects on aphids and predators

3. Rapid evolution to environmental change

4. Interplay between ecological and evolutionary dynamics

organization

space

time

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Project components

1. Co-evolution among insects and bacterial symbionts

2. Environmental effects on aphids and predators

3. Rapid evolution to environmental change

4. Interplay between ecological and evolutionary dynamics

organization

space

time

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Aphids as a model system

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Bacterial symbionts

• infect many aphid species

• heritable• part of the extended

genome of aphids

symbionts within and between aphid cells

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Pea aphid model system for symbiosis

Oliver et al. (2010 Ann. Rev. Entomol.)

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Pea aphid model system for symbiosis

Oliver et al. (2010 Ann. Rev. Entomol.)

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Pea aphid model system for symbiosis

Oliver et al. (2010 Ann. Rev. Entomol.)

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Pea aphid model system for symbiosis

Oliver et al. (2010 Ann. Rev. Entomol.)

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Oliver et al. (2010 Ann. Rev. Entomol.)

Pea aphid model system for symbiosis

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Heritable symbionts in aphids

Photo credit: Alex Wild

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Project components

1. Co-evolution among insects and bacterial symbionts

organization

space

time

Citizen Science Project

volunteers (and their kids) throughout the USA

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Citizen science collection sites

105 mailers sent46 mailers received299 samples

Aphid and plant IDs from genetic fingerprinting

50 aphid species87 plant species from

36 families

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Co-evolution among insects and bacterial symbionts

1. Generate joint evolutionary trees for aphids and symbionts

2. Investigate distribution of symbionts relative to environmental conditions (temperature) using remote sensing

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Project components

2. Environmental effects on aphids and predators

organization

space

time

The joint effects of light pollution and nighttime warming

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Colleen Miller Brandon Barton

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Nighttime warming is greater than daytime warming

1961-2010

mean

nighttime

daytime

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Local warming: urban heat island

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Light pollution

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Night warming

Night warming only

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Lightpollution

Lightpollution

Light pollution only

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Lightpollution

Lightpollution

Night warmingand light pollutionNight

warming

Can the effects of both be predicted

from their separate effects?

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C7Visual hunter

CmacHunts in the dark

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LEDs

Black bags of water+2° C above ambient

2 x 2 x 3 designLight x Warming x Predators

96 cages for 9 days

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ids

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Night warming

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None Light Warming L/W exp L/W0

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CmacHunts in the dark

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field

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scaled to full moon reflectance from clouds

Full moon Total Alfalfa≥full moon 2.4% 1.1%50 - 100% 1.3 1.3

25 - 50% 2.0 2.810 - 25% 5.8 12.3

<10% 88.5 82.4

largest impact for urban gardens

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Lightpollutio

n

Lightpollution

Night warming

Can we predict the joint effects of two changes from their separate effects?

It depends on the ladybeetle.

How much can we learn from small-scale experiments?

Remote sensing puts field experiments into context

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Project components

1. Co-evolution among insects and bacterial symbionts

2. Environmental effects on aphids and predators

3. Rapid evolution to environmental change

4. Interplay between ecological and evolutionary dynamics

organization

space

time

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Scale

organization

individualsfood webs

spaceplants continents

timeevent evolution

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Project components

1. Co-evolution among insects and bacterial symbionts

2. Environmental effects on aphids and predators

3. Rapid evolution to environmental change

4. Interplay between ecological and evolutionary dynamics

organization

space

time

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