Climate change and sexual size dimorphism in an Arctic spider

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 542-544

  Høye, Toke Thomas ^a   Hammel, Jörg U ^b,c   Fuchs, Thomas ^c   Toft, Søren ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body size; Carapace width; Life cycle; Pardosa glacialis; Sexual size dimorphism

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; FITNESS; GROWING SEASON; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SNOWMELT; SPIDER;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GREENLAND; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPIDER;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; ZACKENBERG;

ARANEAE; LYCOSIDAE; PARDOSA;

EID: 67749097713     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0169     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Blankenhorn, W. U., Stillwell, R. C., Young, K. A., Fox, C. W. & Ashton, K. G. 2006 When Rensch meets Bergmann: does sexual size dimorphism change systematically with latitude? Evolution 60, 2004-2011. (doi:10.1111/j.0014-3820.2006.tb01838.x)
2. Callaghan, T. V. et al. 2005 Arctic tundra and polar desert ecosystems. In Arctic climate impact assessment, pp. 243-352. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
3. Chown, S. L. & Klok, C. J. 2003 Altitudinal body size clines: latitudinal effects associated with changing seasonality. Ecography 26, 445-455. (doi:10.1034/j.1600-0587.2003.03479.x)
4. Fairbairn, D. J. 1997 Allometry for sexual size dimorphism: pattern and process in the coevolution of body size in males and females. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 28, 659-687. (doi:10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.28.1.659)
5. Fernández-Montraveta, C. & Moya-Laraño, J. 2007 Sexspecific plasticity of growth and maturation size in a spider: implications for sexual size dimorphism. J. Evol. Biol. 20, 1689-1699. (doi:10.1111/j.1420- 9101.2007.01399.x)
6. Garel, M., Solberg, E. J., Sæther, B. E., Herfindal, I. & Høgda, K. A. 2006 The length of growing season and adult sex ratio affect sexual size dimorphism in moose. Ecology 87, 745-758. (doi:10.1890/05-0584)
7. Hagstrum, D. W. 1971 Carapace width as a tool for evaluating the rate of development of spiders in the laboratory and the field. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 64, 757-760.
8. Høye, T. T. & Forchhammer, M. C. 2008 Phenology of High-Arctic arthropods: effects of climate on spatial, seasonal and inter-annual variation. Adv. Ecol. Res. 40, 299-324. (doi:10.1016/S0065-2504(07)00013-X)
9. Høye, T. T., Post, E., Meltofte, H., Schmidt, N. M. & Forchhammer, M. C. 2007 Rapid advancement of spring in the High Arctic. Curr. Biol. 17, R449-R451. (doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.04.047)
10. Karl, I. & Fischer, K. 2008 Why get big in the cold? Towards a solution to a life-history puzzle. Oecologia 155, 215-225. (doi:10.1007/s00442- 007-0902-0)
11. Klitgaard, A. B. & Rasch, M. 2008 Zackenberg ecological research operations 13th annual report.Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Copenhagen, Denmark.
12. Kotiaho, J., Alatalo, J. M., Mappes, J. & Parri, S. 1996 Sexual selection in a wolf spider: male drumming activity, body size, and viability. Evolution 50, 1977-1981. (doi:10.2307/2410755) (Pubitemid 27282517)
13. Miyashita, K. 1968 Growth and development of Lycosa T-insignita Boes. et Str. (Aranea: Lycosidae) under different feeding conditions. Appl. Entomol. Zool. 3, 81-88.
14. Parmesan, C. 2006 Ecological and evolutionary responses to recent climate change. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Systemat. 37, 637-669. (doi:10.1146/annurev. ecolsys.37.091305.110100)
15. Pettorelli, N., Weladji, R. B., Holand, Ø., Mysterud, A., Breie, H. & Stenseth, N. C. 2005 The relative role of winter and spring conditions: linking climate and landscape-scale plant phenology to alpine reindeer body mass. Biol. Lett. 1, 24-26. (doi:10.1098/rsbl.2004.0262)
16. Pickavance, J. R. 2001 Life-cycles of four species of Pardosa (Araneae, Lycosidae) from the island of Newfoundland, Canada. J. Arachnol. 29, 367-377. (doi:10.1636/0161-8202(2001)029[0367:LCOFSO]2.0.CO;2)
17. Post, E. & Forchhammer, M. C. 2008 Climate change reduces reproductive success of an arctic herbivore through trophic mismatch. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 363, 2369-2375. (doi:10.1098/rstb.2007.2207)
18. Post, E., Langvatn, R., Forchhammer, M. C. & Stenseth, N. C. 1999 Environmental variation shapes sexual dimorphism in red deer. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 96, 4467-4471. (doi:10.1073/pnas.96.8.4467)
19. Quinn, G. P. & Keough, M. J. 2002 Experimental design and data analysis for biologists. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.
20. Rasband, W. S. 2008 IMAGEJ. http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/. Bethesda, MD: US National Institutes of Health.
21. Simpson, M. R. 1993 Reproduction in two species of arctic arachnids, Pardosa glacialis and Alopecosa hirtipes. Can. J. Zool. 71, 451-457. (doi:10.1139/z93-065)
22. Simpson, M. R. 1995 Covariation of spider egg and clutch size: the influence of foraging and parental care. Ecology 76, 795-800. (doi:10.2307/1939345)
23. Vertainen, L., Alatalo, J. M., Mappes, J. & Parri, S. 2000 Sexual differences in growth strategies of the wolf spider. Hygrolycosa rubrofasciata. Evol. Ecol. 14, 595-610. (doi:10.1023/A:1011080706931)