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Phenology of Drosophila species across a temperate growing season and implications for behavior
Gleason, Jennifer M. Roy, Paula R. Everman, Elizabeth R. Gleason, Terry C. Morgan, Theodore J.
Gleason, Jennifer M.
Roy, Paula R.
Everman, Elizabeth R.
Gleason, Terry C.
Morgan, Theodore J.
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Drosophila community composition is complex in temperate regions with different abundance of flies and species across the growing season. Monitoring Drosophila populations provides insights into the phenology of both native and invasive species. Over a single growing season, we collected Drosophila at regular intervals and determined the number of individuals of the nine species we found in Kansas, USA. Species varied in their presence and abundance through the growing season with peak diversity occurring after the highest seasonal temperatures. We developed models for the abundance of the most common species, Drosophila melanogaster, D. simulans, D. algonquin, and the recent invasive species, D. suzukii. These models revealed that temperature played the largest role in abundance of each species across the season. For the two most commonly studied species, D. melanogaster and D. simulans, the best models indicate shifted thermal optima compared to laboratory studies, implying that fluctuating temperature may play a greater role in the physiology and ecology of these insects than indicated by laboratory studies, and should be considered in global climate change studies.
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Data have been deposited in Dryad, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1bc102k.
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2019-05-16
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PLOS ONE
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Gleason JM, Roy PR, Everman ER, Gleason TC, Morgan TJ (2019) Phenology of Drosophila species across a temperate growing season and implications for behavior. PLoS ONE 14(5): e0216601. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216601