Climate Change and Local Host Availability Drive the Northern Range Boundary in the Rapid Expansion of a Specialist Insect Herbivore, Papilio cresphontes

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Kent P. McFarland¹  Maxim Larrivée²  Dominique Berteaux³  Rebecca A. Hutchinson⁴  Nicolas Casajus⁶  Kathleen L. Prudic⁷  J. Keaton Wilson⁸  Jeremy T. Kerr⁹ 

[1] Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States;Canada Research Chair on Northern Biodiversity, Centre for Northern Studies and Quebec Center for Biodiversity Science, Université du Québec á Rimouski, Rimouski, QC, Canada;Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada;;Department of Fisheries &Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States;FRB-CESAB, Montpellier, France;Insectarium, Montreal Space for Life, Montreal, QC, Canada;School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States;Vermont Center for Ecostudies, White River Junction, VT, United States;

关键词: biotic interactions;    benchmarking biodiversity;    citizen science;    species distribution models;    climate change;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fevo.2021.579230

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Species distributions, abundance, and interactions have always been influenced by human activity and are currently experiencing rapid change. Biodiversity benchmark surveys traditionally require intense human labor inputs to find, identify, and record organisms limiting the rate and impact of scientific enquiry and discovery. Recent emergence and advancement of monitoring technologies have improved biodiversity data collection to a scale and scope previously unimaginable. Community science web platforms, smartphone applications, and technology assisted identification have expedited the speed and enhanced the volume of observational data all while providing open access to these data worldwide. How to integrate and leverage the data into valuable information on how species are changing in space and time requires new best practices in computational and analytical approaches. Here we integrate data from three community science repositories to explore how a specialist herbivore distribution changes in relation to host plant distributions and other environmental factors. We generate a series of temporally explicit species distribution models to generate range predictions for a specialist insect herbivore (Papilio cresphontes) and three predominant host-plant species. We find that this insect species has experienced rapid northern range expansion, likely due to a combination of the range of its larval host plants and climate changes in winter. This case study shows rapid data collection through large scale community science endeavors can be leveraged through thoughtful data integration and transparent analytic pipelines to inform how environmental change impacts where species are and their interactions for a more cost effective method of biodiversity benchmarking.

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