The ecosystem response to urban transformation: the impact of rapid urbanisation on the social demographics of ecologically-significant insect species

生态系统对城市转型的反应：快速城市化对具有生态意义的昆虫物种的社会人口统计的影响

• 批准号: NE/N000951/1
• 负责人: Seirian Sumner
• 金额: $ 1.94万
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FN000951%2F1
• 关键词: ecosystem; response; urban; transformation; impact

Landscapes across the world are undergoing rapid urbanisation. We will investigate the role of urban living in the life of an ecologically prominent social insect, wasps of the genus Polistes in Brazil. Do urbanised landscapes host higher densities of colonies? Does life in artificial environments recalibrate the demographics of social species? Does this have implications for social behaviour? Is an urbanised world a new ecological context to which social behaviour must adapt? Are ancestral evolutionary strategies helped or hindered by the transition to urbanisation? We will address fascinating questions such as these through thorough behavioural analyses of Brazil's polistine wasps, using a host of cutting-edge technologies - including advanced sociogenomics (the study of social behaviour and the genome) and intricate radio-tagging of wasps in the wild.

世界各地的景观正在经历快速的城市化。我们将调查的作用，城市生活在生活中的生态突出的社会昆虫，黄蜂属的蜂在巴西。城市化的景观是否拥有更高密度的殖民地？人工环境中的生命是否会重新校准社会物种的人口统计学？这对社会行为有影响吗？城市化的世界是社会行为必须适应的新生态环境吗？向城市化的过渡是帮助还是阻碍了祖先的进化策略？我们将通过对巴西黄蜂的彻底行为分析来解决这些迷人的问题，使用大量尖端技术-包括先进的社会基因组学（社会行为和基因组的研究）和野外黄蜂的复杂无线电标记。

项目成果

Patterns of longevity across a sociality gradient in vespid wasps.

胡蜂跨社会梯度的长寿模式。

• DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2016.05.006
• 发表时间: 2016
• 期刊: Current opinion in insect science
• 影响因子: 5.3
• 作者: Toth AL

High indirect fitness benefits for helpers across the nesting cycle in the tropical paper wasp Polistes canadensis.

对于热带纸黄蜂 Polistes canadensis 整个筑巢周期的帮助者来说，间接的健身效益很高。

• DOI: 10.1111/mec.15137
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Molecular ecology
• 影响因子: 4.9
• 作者: Southon RJ

Marketing insects: can exploiting a commercial framework help promote undervalued insect species?

昆虫营销：利用商业框架可以帮助推广被低估的昆虫物种吗？

• DOI: 10.1111/icad.12405
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Insect Conservation and Diversity
• 影响因子: 3.5
• 作者: Hart A

Mapping species distributions in 2 weeks using citizen science

利用公民科学在两周内绘制物种分布图

• DOI: 10.1111/icad.12345
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Insect Conservation and Diversity
• 影响因子: 3.5
• 作者: Sumner S

Altruism in a volatile world.

• DOI: 10.1038/nature25965
• 发表时间: 2018-03-15
• 期刊: Nature
• 影响因子: 64.8
• 作者: Kennedy P;Higginson AD;Radford AN;Sumner S
• 通讯作者: Sumner S