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Collaborative Research: Linking thermal tolerance to invasion dynamics: Environment and physiological capacity as regulators of geographical spread

合作研究：将耐热性与入侵动态联系起来：环境和生理能力作为地理传播的调节因素

基本信息

批准号：
1702545
负责人：
Salvatore Agosta
金额：
$ 11.71万
依托单位：
Virginia Commonwealth University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-08-01 至 2021-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1702545&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research Linking thermal tolerance

项目摘要

Invasive species are an increasing threat to native ecosystems, agriculture, and forestry. This research addresses fundamental questions about how the environment, habitat, local life history, and local physiological traits interact to determine the geographic range of gypsy moths. Introduced from Europe to Massachusetts in 1869, gypsy moth now occurs over nearly a million square kilometers of eastern North America, extending from Minnesota to North Carolina. It is a highly damaging pest of hardwood forests, causing extensive economic and ecological damage to public and private property, as well as negatively impacting the forest products industry. In some parts of its range, gypsy moth is spreading rapidly across the landscape, while in other areas, the invasion front is static or retracting. So far, only one-third of susceptible forest types in the United States have been invaded, leaving large portions of the country still at risk. This project addresses how the invasive potential of a species can change along its leading edge and how a changing environment can determine whether ranges expand or contract. This research also includes training and outreach components that will reach a wide range of student learners, educators, and community stakeholders. The objective of this project is to use patterns of expansion, stasis, and contraction at gypsy moth range limits to examine how local changes in gypsy moth traits influence the potential for future spread. Specifically, the project tests for range-wide variation in tolerance to high and low temperature extremes, local adaptive changes in those physiological limits, and how these traits interact with temperature to influence invasive spread under predicted changes in regional environments. To determine how temperature extremes impact the survival and growth of populations from across the invasion front, experiments will be performed to quantify temperature-dependent growth rates, critical thermal limits, and temperature-specific metabolic rates. Additionally, the effects of current and future environmental conditions will be tested using growth chambers programed with region-specific current and future temperature regimes. The effects of current overwintering conditions at the range extremes on hatching success will be tested by deploying egg masses from a range of populations at both the northern and southern range edge. Publically available climate data, as well as the exhaustive sampling effort by state and federal agencies that annually measures the abundance of gypsy moth along the entire 2000 km range edge, will be used to examine future spread potential. These experimental approaches, combined with information on the current distribution and spread rate will lead to a greater understanding of traits underlying the success of invasive species and help to identify areas that may become more or less susceptible to invasions in the future.

入侵物种对本地生态系统、农业和林业的威胁日益严重。本研究解决了环境、栖息地、当地生活史和当地生理特征如何相互作用以确定舞毒蛾的地理范围的基本问题。舞毒蛾于1869年从欧洲引入马萨诸塞州，现在分布在北美东部近100万平方公里的地区，从明尼苏达州延伸到北卡罗来纳州。它是阔叶林的一种极具破坏性的害虫，对公共和私人财产造成广泛的经济和生态破坏，并对林产品工业产生负面影响。在其活动范围的某些地区，舞毒蛾正在迅速蔓延，而在其他地区，入侵前线是静止的或收缩的。到目前为止，美国只有三分之一的易感森林类型被入侵，使该国的大部分地区仍处于危险之中。该项目研究了一个物种的入侵潜力如何沿着其前沿变化，以及不断变化的环境如何决定其范围是扩大还是缩小。这项研究还包括培训和推广组件，将达到广泛的学生学习者，教育者和社区利益相关者。本项目的目的是利用舞毒蛾范围极限的扩张、停滞和收缩模式来研究舞毒蛾性状的局部变化如何影响未来传播的潜力。具体而言，该项目测试了对极端高温和低温的耐受性的大范围变化，这些生理极限的局部适应性变化，以及这些特征如何与温度相互作用，从而在预测的区域环境变化下影响入侵传播。为了确定极端温度如何影响整个入侵前线种群的生存和生长，将进行实验来量化温度依赖的生长率、临界热极限和温度特异性代谢率。此外，将使用具有特定区域当前和未来温度制度的生长室来测试当前和未来环境条件的影响。目前极端越冬条件对孵化成功的影响将通过在山脉北部和南部边缘部署一系列种群的卵群来测试。可公开获得的气候数据，以及州和联邦机构每年测量整个2000公里范围内舞毒蛾数量的详尽抽样工作，将用于检查未来的传播潜力。这些实验方法，结合当前分布和传播速度的信息，将有助于更好地了解入侵物种成功的特征，并有助于确定未来可能变得或多或少易受入侵的地区。