期刊
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
卷 19, 期 9, 页码 2655-2674出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12267
关键词
acoustic communication; Alytes; amphibian decline; audio-trapping; global warming; Hyla; thermal breadth
资金
- Somiedo Natural Park (Principado de Asturias)
- Sierra Norte Natural Park and Sierra de Baza Natural Park (Junta de Andalucia)
- ICTS Donana (CSIC)
- Consejerias de Medio Ambiente (Asturias, Madrid and Andalucia)
- FPI from Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion, Spain [BES-2006-13104]
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Portugal [SFRH/BPD/3514/2000]
- SYNTHESYS project, Spain [ESTAF-1251]
- TEMPURA [CGL2005-00092/BOS]
- ACOURA [CGL2008-04814-C02]
- TATANKA [CGL2011-25062]
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion
- FCW [CGL2011-16159-E]
- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad, Spain
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BPD/3514/2000] Funding Source: FCT
Calling behaviour is strongly temperature-dependent and critical for sexual selection and reproduction in a variety of ectothermic taxa, including anuran amphibians, which are the most globally threatened vertebrates. However, few studies have explored how species respond to distinct thermal environments at time of displaying calling behaviour, and thus it is still unknown whether ongoing climate change might compromise the performance of calling activity in ectotherms. Here, we used new audio-trapping techniques (automated sound recording and detection systems) between 2006 and 2009 to examine annual calling temperatures of five temperate anurans and their patterns of geographical and seasonal variation at the thermal extremes of species ranges, providing insights into the thermal breadths of calling activity of species, and the mechanisms that enable ectotherms to adjust to changing thermal environments. All species showed wide thermal breadths during calling behaviour (above 15 degrees C) and increases in calling temperatures in extremely warm populations and seasons. Thereby, calling temperatures differed both geographically and seasonally, both in terrestrial and aquatic species, and were 8-22 degrees C below the specific upper critical thermal limits (CTmax) and strongly associated with the potential temperatures of each thermal environment (operative temperatures during the potential period of breeding). This suggests that calling behaviour in ectotherms may take place at population-specific thermal ranges, diverging when species are subjected to distinct thermal environments, and might imply plasticity of thermal adjustment mechanisms (seasonal and developmental acclimation) that supply species with means of coping with climate change. Furthermore, the thermal thresholds of calling at the onset of the breeding season were dissimilar between conspecific populations, suggesting that other factors besides temperature are needed to trigger the onset of reproduction. Our findings imply that global warming would not directly inhibit calling behaviour in the study species, although might affect other temperature-dependent features of their acoustic communication system.
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