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Data from: Ecological requirements drive the variable responses of wheat pests and natural enemies to the landscape context
<p>1. Semi-natural habitats (SNH) are considered essential for pest suppressive landscapes, but their influence on crop pests and natural enemies can be highly variable. Instead of SNH per se, the availability of resources, such as pollen and nectar, may be more relevant for supporting pest control.</p> <p>2. Here, we assessed the spatio-temporal variation of multiple insect pests (cereal leaf beetles and aphids) and natural enemies (predators and aphid parasitoids) in wheat fields and their responses to landscape context and flower availability. We combined detailed information on pollen use by natural enemies with the specific distribution of pollen-providing plants across a gradient of landscape composition and configuration.</p> <p>3. The abundance of wheat pests was tightly linked to wheat development stage. Syrphids colonised the fields early in the season, while the abundance of other enemies increased later in the season. The responses of pests to landscape structure were variable and, while some pests had low abundances in landscapes with high edge density and SNH cover, <em>Sitobion avenae</em> abundance was positively associated with SNH cover. Lacewings, syrphids and cereal leaf beetles were abundant in landscapes with diverse and abundant flower resources, whereas the abundance of parasitoids and Nabis sp. was driven by aphid abundance. We detected no significant indirect effects of landscape on pests via natural enemies.</p> <p>4. Synthesis and applications. Our findings highlight the need for conservation biological control to go beyond "one size fits all" and consider the specific ecology of the involved organisms. Landscapes with high edge density and flowering woody plants may support natural enemies, in particular syrphids, which colonised the fields early in the season. Incentives for pest-suppressive landscapes should focus on tailored strategies that disfavour pests and simultaneously enhance natural enemies according to their ecological requirements.</p>
Including intraspecific trait variability to avoid distortion of functional diversity and ecological inference: lessons from natural assemblages
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Data from: Ecological requirements drive the variable responses of wheat pests and natural enemies to the landscape context
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Recent natural variability in global warming weakened phenological mismatch and selection on seasonal timing in great tits (Parus major)
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Thermal performance under constant temperatures can accurately predict insect development times across naturally variable microclimates
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Natural disease history of a canine model of oligogenic RPGRIP1-cone-rod dystrophy establishes variable effects of previously and newly mapped modifier loci
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Phenotypic variability can promote the evolution of adaptive plasticity by reducing the stringency of natural selection
Adaptive phenotypic plasticity is a potent but not ubiquitous solution to environmental heterogeneity, driving interest in what factors promote and limit its evolution. Here a novel computational model representing stochastic information flow in development is used to explore evolution from a constitutive phenotype to an adaptively plastic response. Results show that populations tend to evolve robustness to developmental stochasticity, but this evolved robustness limits evolvability; specifically, robust genotypes have less ability to evolve adaptive plasticity when presented with a mix of both the ancestral environment and a new environment. Analytic calculations and computational experiments confirm that this constraint occurs when the initial mutational steps toward plasticity are pleiotropic, such that mutant fitnesses decline in the environment to which their parents are well-adapted. Greater phenotypic variability improves evolvability in the model by lessening this decline as well as improving the fitness of partial adaptations to the new environment. By making initial plastic mutations more palatable to natural selection, phenotypic variability can increase the evolvability of an innovative, plastic response without improving evolvability to simpler challenges such as a shifted optimum in a single environment. Populations that evolved robustness by negative feedback between the trait and its rate of change show a particularly strong constraining effect on the evolvability of plasticity, revealing another mechanism by which evolutionary history can limit later innovation. These results document a novel mechanism by which weakening selection could actually stimulate the evolution of a major innovation.
Data from: Low temperature reveals genetic variability against male-killing Spiroplasma in Drosophila melanogaster natural populations
Spiroplasma endosymbionts are maternally inherited microorganisms which infect many arthropod species. In some Drosophila species, it acts as a reproductive manipulator, spreading in populations by killing the sons of infected mothers. Distinct Drosophila melanogaster populations from Brazil exhibit variable male-killing Spiroplasma prevalences. In this study, we investigated the presence of variability for the male-killing phenotype among Drosophila and/or Spiroplasma strains and verified if it correlates with the endosymbiont prevalence in natural populations. For that, we analyzed the male-killing expression when Spiroplasma strains from different populations were transferred to a standard D. melanogaster line (Canton-S) and when a common Spiroplasma strain was transferred to different wild-caught D. melanogaster lines, both at optimal and challenging temperatures for the bacteria. No variation was observed in the male-killing phenotype induced by different Spiroplasma strains. No phenotypic variability among fly lines was detected at optimal temperature (23 °C), as well. Conversely, significant variation in the male-killing expression was revealed among D. melanogaster lines at 18.5 °C, probably caused by imperfect transmission of the endosymbiont. Distinct lines differed in their average sex ratios as well as in the pattern of male-killing expression as the infected females aged. Greater variation occurred among lines from one locality, although there was no clear correlation between the male-killing intensity and the endosymbiont prevalence in each population. Imperfect transmission or male killing may also occur in the field, thus helping to explain the low or intermediate prevalences reported in nature. We discuss the implications of our results for the dynamics of male-killing Spiroplasma in natural populations.
Steady threefold Arctic Amplification of externally forced warming masked by natural variability
<p>SourceData.xlsx:</p> <p>Time series of the observed Arctic and global mean temperature, the MME Arctic and global mean temperature, the IPO index, the AM index, and the influences of tropical Pacific variability on the Arctic and global mean temperature.</p> <p> </p> <p>Arctic_Amplificaiton_Historicaltrend.py:</p> <p>Script for analyzing datasets and plotting figures</p> <p> </p>
Stoneflies of Medvednica Nature Park: genetic diversity and morphological variability
<p>Stoneflies of Medvednica Nature Park: genetic diversity and morphological variability</p> <p>Version 2: corrected the sequence lengths</p>
The impact of Natural Variability on Regional Sea-Level Rise During the Satellite-Altimetry Era
<p>We share the datasets for each figure. Anyone can use the datasets under proper citation.</p>
Supplementary material 2 from: Niemi M, Pöyry J, Heiskanen I, Uotinen V, Nieminen M, Erkomaa K, Wallenius K (2014) Variability of soil enzyme activities and vegetation succession following boreal forest surface soil transfer to an artificial hill. Nature Conservation 8: 1-25. https://doi.org/10.3897/natureconservation.8.6369
Figure S1: Explanation note: The studied sites at the onset of the study in June 2003: a) Top b) Grove c) Middle d) North e) Alder f) Spruce.
Supplementary material 5 from: Niemi M, Pöyry J, Heiskanen I, Uotinen V, Nieminen M, Erkomaa K, Wallenius K (2014) Variability of soil enzyme activities and vegetation succession following boreal forest surface soil transfer to an artificial hill. Nature Conservation 8: 1-25. https://doi.org/10.3897/natureconservation.8.6369
Figure S4: Explanation note: The studied s ites after a decade in June 2013: a) Top, b) Grove c) Middle d) North.
Disentangling forced trends in the North Atlantic jet from natural variability using deep learning
<p>Code used to train the LLAE to obtain forced trends in the North Atlantic jet stream and to produce plots.</p>
Raman data for "Resistance of corals and coralline algae to ocean acidification: physiological control of calcification under natural pH variability"
<p>This file contains the Raman data and code for "Resistance of corals and coralline algae to ocean acidification: physiological control of calcification under natural pH variability" by Cornwall et al. in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Run the file, "run.R" in R to reproduce the analysis.</p> <p>Please see the published paper for methods and details: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1168">https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1168</a></p>
Widespread naturally variable human exons aid genetic interpretation (Preprint)
<p>Supplemental files for Widespread naturally variable human exons aid genetic interpretation (<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.09.612029v1">Preprint link</a>)</p> <p> </p> <p>For newest version, click here: <a href="https://zenodo.org/records/15790343">https://zenodo.org/records/15790343</a></p> <p> </p>
Data from: Natural selection on gall size: variable contributions of individual host plants to population-wide patterns
Studies that provide estimates of the form and magnitude of selection on herbivore traits at the level of individual plants in natural populations represent a vital step in understanding the interaction of selection and gene flow among host-affiliated insect populations when individual plants equate to differing selective regimes. We analyzed phenotypic selection on the trait gall size for a host-specific gall former at both the individual host plant and population level (across host plants) in each of two years. Linear and nonlinear selection and the fitness function relating gall size to the probability of survivorship in the absence of natural enemies were estimated for each level and year. Selection imposed by the host plant was observed in 19 of the 22 subpopulations monitored. At the population level, linear and nonlinear selection were evident each year. However, population-level estimates masked the significant heterogeneity in the form and direction of selection evident among plants each year. Heterogeneity among gall-former subpopulations is emphasized by our findings that selection varied from directional to stabilizing among plants and the majority of selection gradients estimated for individual plants did not fall within the 95% CIs of the population-level estimates.
Disentangling the effects of eutrophication and natural variability on macrobenthic communities across French coastal lagoons
<p>We present here the raw data and scripts to reproduce the results presented in the preprint "Disentangling the effects of eutrophication and natural variability on macrobenthic communities across French coastal lagoons" available on BioRxiv. Before using the scripts and associated data, we recommend reading the "readme" word document also available, which details the information available in the different data sheets. </p> <p>Preprint abstract : </p> <p>Coastal lagoons are transitional ecosystems that host a unique diversity of species and support many ecosystem services. Owing to their position at the interface between land and sea, they are also subject to increasing human impacts, which alter their ecological functioning. Because coastal lagoons are naturally highly variable in their environmental conditions, disentangling the effects of anthropogenic disturbances like eutrophication from those of natural variability is a challenging, yet necessary issue to address. Here, we analyze a dataset composed of macrobenthic invertebrate abundances and environmental variables (hydro-morphology, water, sediment and macrophytes) gathered across 29 Mediterranean coastal lagoons located in France, to characterize the main drivers of community composition and structure. Using correlograms, linear models and variance partitioning, we found that lagoon hydro-morphology (connection to the sea and lagoon surface), which affects the level of environmental variability (salinity and temperature), as well as lagoon-scale benthic habitat diversity (using macrophyte morphotypes) seemed to regulate macrofauna distribution, while eutrophication and associated stressors like low dissolved oxygen, acted upon the existing communities, mainly by reducing species richness and diversity. Furthermore, M-AMBI, a multivariate index composed of species richness, Shannon diversity and AMBI (AZTI's Marine Biotic Index) and currently used to evaluate the ecological state of French coastal lagoons, was more sensitive to eutrophication (18%) than to natural variability (9%), with nonetheless 49% of its variability explained jointly by both. To improve the robustness of benthic indicators like M-AMBI and increase the effectiveness of lagoon benthic habitat management, we call for a revision of the ecological groups at the base of the AMBI index and of the current lagoon typology which could be inspired by the lagoon-sea connection levels used in this study.</p>
Data from: Natural selection on gall size: variable contributions of individual host plants to population-wide patterns
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Phenotypic variability can promote the evolution of adaptive plasticity by reducing the stringency of natural selection
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