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Intraspecific trait variation and changing life-history strategies explain host community disease risk along a temperature gradient

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ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0019

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functional traits; intraspecific trait variation; disease; elevation; climate change

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Predicting how climate change affects disease risk is complex due to direct and indirect effects of changing environmental conditions. This study investigated the effect of temperature, inter- and intraspecific trait variation on community disease risk. The results showed that increasing temperature favored species with fast-paced life-history strategies, but intraspecific variation in specific leaf area (SLA) balanced this effect, especially among species adapted to warmer temperatures and lower latitudes. These findings highlight the importance of considering host community structure and evolutionary constraints when studying the impacts of temperature on disease.
Predicting how climate change will affect disease risk is complicated by the fact that changing environmental conditions can affect disease through direct and indirect effects. Species with fast-paced life-history strategies often amplify disease, and changing climate can modify life-history composition of communities thereby altering disease risk. However, individuals within a species can also respond to changing conditions with intraspecific trait variation. To test the effect of temperature, as well as inter- and intraspecifc trait variation on community disease risk, we measured foliar disease and specific leaf area (SLA; a proxy for life-history strategy) on more than 2500 host (plant) individuals in 199 communities across a 1101 m elevational gradient in southeastern Switzerland. There was no direct effect of increasing temperature on disease. Instead, increasing temperature favoured species with higher SLA, fast-paced life-history strategies. This effect was balanced by intraspecific variation in SLA: on average, host individuals expressed lower SLA with increasing temperature, and this effect was stronger among species adapted to warmer temperatures and lower latitudes. These results demonstrate how impacts of changing temperature on disease may depend on how temperature combines and interacts with host community structure while indicating that evolutionary constraints can determine how these effects are manifested under global change.This article is part of the theme issue 'Infectious disease ecology and evolution in a changing world'.

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