Individual growth rates do not predict aphid population densities under altered atmospheric conditions

1 Altered atmospheric composition, associated with climate change, can modify herbivore population dynamics through CO₂ and/or O₃-mediated changes in plant quality. 2 Although pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum genotypes exhibit intraspecific variation in population growth in response to atmospheric comp...

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Veröffentlicht in:Agricultural and forest entomology 2010-08, Vol.12 (3), p.293-299
Hauptverfasser: Mondor, Edward B, Awmack, Caroline S, Lindroth, Richard L
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Zusammenfassung:1 Altered atmospheric composition, associated with climate change, can modify herbivore population dynamics through CO₂ and/or O₃-mediated changes in plant quality. 2 Although pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum genotypes exhibit intraspecific variation in population growth in response to atmospheric composition, the proximate mechanisms underlying this variation are largely unknown. 3 By rearing single (green, pink) and mixed (green + pink) pea aphid genotypes on red clover Trifolium pratense at the Aspen Free Air CO₂ and O₃ Enrichment (Aspen FACE) site, we assessed whether: (i) elevated CO₂ and/or O₃ concentrations alter aphid growth and development and (ii) individual aphid growth rates predict aphid population densities. 4 We showed that growth and development of individual green and pink aphids were not influenced by CO₂ and/or O₃ concentrations when reared as individual or mixed genotypes. Individual growth rates, however, did not predict population densities. 5 Reared as a single genotype, green pea aphid populations decreased in response to elevated CO₂ concentrations, but not in response to elevated CO₂ + O₃ concentrations. Pink pea aphid populations reared as a single genotype were unaffected by augmented CO₂ or O₃. Populations of mixed genotypes, however, were reduced under elevated CO₂ concentrations, irrespective of O₃ concentrations. 6 Herbivore population sizes may not readily be predicted from growth rates of individual organisms under atmospheric conditions associated with global climate change.
ISSN:1461-9555
1461-9563
DOI:10.1111/j.1461-9563.2010.00478.x