期刊
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
卷 288, 期 1949, 页码 -出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.3217
关键词
climatic warming; abundance; temperature; population fitness; resource limitation; vector-borne disease
资金
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/L002515/1]
- UK Medical Research Council
- Department for International Development [MR/R0156600/1]
Research shows that low resource supply significantly impacts the population growth rate of mosquitoes at different temperatures, especially causing the peak population growth rate to occur at a lower temperature. This is mainly due to an increase in juvenile mortality and development time, as well as a decrease in adult size under low-resource conditions. Future studies need to consider resource supply factors to accurately predict the effects of climate and habitat change on vector-borne diseases and other arthropods.
Laboratory-derived temperature dependencies of life-history traits are increasingly being used to make mechanistic predictions for how climatic warming will affect vector-borne disease dynamics, partially by affecting abundance dynamics of the vector population. These temperature-trait relationships are typically estimated from juvenile populations reared on optimal resource supply, even though natural populations of vectors are expected to experience variation in resource supply, including intermittent resource limitation. Using laboratory experiments on the mosquito Aedes aegypti, a principal arbovirus vector, combined with stage-structured population modelling, we show that low-resource supply in the juvenile life stages significantly depresses the vector's maximal population growth rate across the entire temperature range (22-32 degrees C) and causes it to peak at a lower temperature than at high-resource supply. This effect is primarily driven by an increase in juvenile mortality and development time, combined with a decrease in adult size with temperature at low-resource supply. Our study suggests that most projections of temperature-dependent vector abundance and disease transmission are likely to be biased because they are based on traits measured under optimal resource supply. Our results provide compelling evidence for future studies to consider resource supply when predicting the effects of climate and habitat change on vector-borne disease transmission, disease vectors and other arthropods.
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