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Beyond body size—new traits for new heights in trait-based modelling of predator-prey dynamics
Food webs map feeding interactions among species, providing a valuable tool for understanding and predicting community dynamics. Using species’ body sizes is a promising avenue for parameterizing food-web models, but such approaches have not yet been able to fully recover observed community dynamics...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9302725/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35862348 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251896 |
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author | Wootton, Kate L. Curtsdotter, Alva Jonsson, Tomas Banks, H. T. Bommarco, Riccardo Roslin, Tomas Laubmeier, Amanda N. |
author_facet | Wootton, Kate L. Curtsdotter, Alva Jonsson, Tomas Banks, H. T. Bommarco, Riccardo Roslin, Tomas Laubmeier, Amanda N. |
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description | Food webs map feeding interactions among species, providing a valuable tool for understanding and predicting community dynamics. Using species’ body sizes is a promising avenue for parameterizing food-web models, but such approaches have not yet been able to fully recover observed community dynamics. Such discrepancies suggest that traits other than body size also play important roles. For example, differences in species’ use of microhabitat or non-consumptive effects of intraguild predators may affect dynamics in ways not captured by body size. In Laubmeier et al. (2018), we developed a dynamic food-web model incorporating microhabitat and non-consumptive predator effects in addition to body size, and used simulations to suggest an optimal sampling design of a mesocosm experiment to test the model. Here, we perform the mesocosm experiment to generate empirical time-series of insect herbivore and predator abundance dynamics. We minimize least squares error between the model and time-series to determine parameter values of four alternative models, which differ in terms of including vs excluding microhabitat use and non-consumptive predator-predator effects. We use both statistical and expert-knowledge criteria to compare the models and find including both microhabitat use and non-consumptive predator-predator effects best explains observed aphid and predator population dynamics, followed by the model including microhabitat alone. This ranking suggests that microhabitat plays a larger role in driving population dynamics than non-consumptive predator-predator effects, although both are clearly important. Our results illustrate the importance of additional traits alongside body size in driving trophic interactions. They also point to the need to consider trophic interactions and population dynamics in a wider community context, where non-trophic impacts can dramatically modify the interplay between multiple predators and prey. Overall, we demonstrate the potential for utilizing traits beyond body size to improve trait-based models and the value of iterative cycling between theory, data and experiment to hone current insights into how traits affect food-web dynamics. |
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spelling | pubmed-93027252022-07-22 Beyond body size—new traits for new heights in trait-based modelling of predator-prey dynamics Wootton, Kate L. Curtsdotter, Alva Jonsson, Tomas Banks, H. T. Bommarco, Riccardo Roslin, Tomas Laubmeier, Amanda N. PLoS One Research Article Food webs map feeding interactions among species, providing a valuable tool for understanding and predicting community dynamics. Using species’ body sizes is a promising avenue for parameterizing food-web models, but such approaches have not yet been able to fully recover observed community dynamics. Such discrepancies suggest that traits other than body size also play important roles. For example, differences in species’ use of microhabitat or non-consumptive effects of intraguild predators may affect dynamics in ways not captured by body size. In Laubmeier et al. (2018), we developed a dynamic food-web model incorporating microhabitat and non-consumptive predator effects in addition to body size, and used simulations to suggest an optimal sampling design of a mesocosm experiment to test the model. Here, we perform the mesocosm experiment to generate empirical time-series of insect herbivore and predator abundance dynamics. We minimize least squares error between the model and time-series to determine parameter values of four alternative models, which differ in terms of including vs excluding microhabitat use and non-consumptive predator-predator effects. We use both statistical and expert-knowledge criteria to compare the models and find including both microhabitat use and non-consumptive predator-predator effects best explains observed aphid and predator population dynamics, followed by the model including microhabitat alone. This ranking suggests that microhabitat plays a larger role in driving population dynamics than non-consumptive predator-predator effects, although both are clearly important. Our results illustrate the importance of additional traits alongside body size in driving trophic interactions. They also point to the need to consider trophic interactions and population dynamics in a wider community context, where non-trophic impacts can dramatically modify the interplay between multiple predators and prey. Overall, we demonstrate the potential for utilizing traits beyond body size to improve trait-based models and the value of iterative cycling between theory, data and experiment to hone current insights into how traits affect food-web dynamics. Public Library of Science 2022-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9302725/ /pubmed/35862348 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251896 Text en © 2022 Wootton et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Wootton, Kate L. Curtsdotter, Alva Jonsson, Tomas Banks, H. T. Bommarco, Riccardo Roslin, Tomas Laubmeier, Amanda N. Beyond body size—new traits for new heights in trait-based modelling of predator-prey dynamics |
title | Beyond body size—new traits for new heights in trait-based modelling of predator-prey dynamics |
title_full | Beyond body size—new traits for new heights in trait-based modelling of predator-prey dynamics |
title_fullStr | Beyond body size—new traits for new heights in trait-based modelling of predator-prey dynamics |
title_full_unstemmed | Beyond body size—new traits for new heights in trait-based modelling of predator-prey dynamics |
title_short | Beyond body size—new traits for new heights in trait-based modelling of predator-prey dynamics |
title_sort | beyond body size—new traits for new heights in trait-based modelling of predator-prey dynamics |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9302725/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35862348 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251896 |
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