High elevation insect communities face shifting ecological and evolutionary landscapes

Alisha A. Shah; Michael E. Dillon; Scott Hotaling; H. Arthur Woods

doi:10.1016/j.cois.2020.04.002

High elevation insect communities face shifting ecological and evolutionary landscapes

Alisha A. Shah
, Michael E. Dillon
, Scott Hotaling
, H. Arthur Woods

Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

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Abstract

Climate change is proceeding rapidly in high mountain regions worldwide. Rising temperatures will impact insect physiology and associated fitness and will shift populations in space and time, thereby altering community interactions and composition. Shifts in space are expected as insects move upslope to escape warming temperatures and shifts in time will occur with changes in phenology of resident high-elevation insects. Clearly, spatiotemporal shifts will not affect all species equally. Terrestrial insects may have more opportunities than aquatic insects to exploit microhabitats, potentially buffering them from warming. Such responses of insects to warming may also fuel evolutionary change, including hitchhiking of maladaptive alleles and genetic rescue. Together, these considerations suggest a striking restructuring of high-elevation insect communities that remains largely unstudied.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-6
Number of pages	6
Journal	Current Opinion in Insect Science
Volume	41
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2020.04.002
State	Published - Oct 2020

Funding

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant nos. DBI-1807694 to AAS, DEB-1457659 and OIA-1826834 to MED, OPP-1906015 for SH, and a grant from the Montana Water Center ( USGS G110-20-W5926 ) to HAW.

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1826834, 1906015, 1457659, DBI-1807694, OPP-1906015, OIA-1826834, DEB-1457659
G110-20-W5926

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SDG 13 Climate Action
SDG 15 Life on Land

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