Journal
ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY
Volume 40, Issue 3, Pages 211-220Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/een.12175
Keywords
Freshwater systems; larvae; Libellulidae; Pachydiplax; thermal performance
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- University of California Natural Reserve System
- Quail Ridge Reserve
- Wantrup Wildlife Refuge of the Napa Land Trust
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences [K12GM088021]
- NMSU College of Arts and Sciences Mini-grant
- National Science Foundation [DEB 1245415]
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Environmental Biology [1245415] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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1. Organisms can respond to changing climatic conditions in multiple ways including changes in phenology, body size or morphology, and range shifts. Understanding how developmental temperatures affect insect life-history timing and morphology is crucial because body size and morphology affect multiple aspects of life history, including dispersal ability, whereas phenology can shape population performance and community interactions. 2. It was experimentally assessed how developmental temperatures experienced by aquatic larvae affected survival, phenology, and adult morphology of dragonflies [Pachydiplax longipennis (Burmeister)]. Larvae were reared under three environmental temperatures: ambient, +2.5, and +5 degrees C, corresponding to temperature projections for our study area 50 and 100years in the future, respectively. Experimental temperature treatments tracked naturally-occurring variation. 3. Clear effects of temperature were found in the rearing environment on survival and phenology: dragonflies reared at the highest temperatures had the lowest survival rates and emerged from the larval stage approximately 3weeks earlier than animals reared at ambient temperatures. There was no effect of rearing temperature on overall body size. Although neither the relative wing nor thorax size was affected by warming, a non-significant trend towards an interaction between sex and warming in relative thorax size suggests that males may be more sensitive to warming than females, a pattern that should be investigated further. 4. Warming strongly affected survival in the larval stage and the phenology of adult emergence. Understanding how warming in the developmental environment affects later life-history stages is critical to interpreting the consequences of warming for organismal performance.
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