Extinction cascades partially estimate herbivore losses in a complete Lepidoptera-plant food web

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1785-1794

  Pearse, Ian S ^a   Altermatt, Florian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Butterflies and moths; Cascading extinctions; Food webs; Herbivory; Plant insect interactions

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXTINCTION RISK; FOOD WEB; HABITAT LOSS; HERBIVORE; PLANT COMMUNITY; RED LIST; REGIONAL PATTERN; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 84880362377     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-1075.1     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Almeida-Neto, M., P. Guimaraes, P. R. Guimaraes, R. D. Loyola, and W. Ulrich. 2008. A consistent metric for nestedness analysis in ecological systems: reconciling concept and measurement. Oikos 117:1227-1239.
2. Altermatt, F. 2010a. Climatic warming increases voltinism in European butterflies and moths. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 277:1281-1287.
3. Altermatt, F. 2010b. Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you when you fly: diet can predict phenological changes in response to climate change. Ecology Letters 13:1475-1484.
4. Altermatt, F., and I. S. Pearse. 2011. Similarity and specialization of the larval versus adult diet of European butterflies and moths. American Naturalist 178:372-382.
5. Anderson, B. J., H. R. Akcakaya, M. B. Araujo, D. A. Fordham, E. Martinez-Meyer, W. Thuiller, and B. W. Brook. 2009. Dynamics of range margins for metapopulations under climate change. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276:1415-1420.
6. Bascompte, J., and D. B. Stouffer. 2009. The assembly and disassembly of ecological networks. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 364:1781-1787.
7. Breshears, D. D., O. B. Myers, C. W. Meyer, F. J. Barnes, C. B. Zou, C. D. Allen, N. G. McDowell, and W. T. Pockman. 2009. Tree die-off in response to global change-type drought: mortality insights from a decade of plant water potential measurements. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7: 185-189.
8. Breunig, T., and S. Demuth. 1999. Rote Liste der Farns-und Samenpflanzen Baden-Wurttembergs, Karlsruhe. Naturschutz-Praxis, Karlsruhe, Germany.
9. Cal-IPC. 2006. California invasive plant inventory. California Invasive Plant Council, Berkeley, California, USA.
10. Crawley, M. J. 2002. Statistical computing. An introduction to data analysis using S-Plus. Wiley, Chichester, UK.
11. de Visser, S. N., B. P. Freymann, and H. Olff. 2011. The Serengeti food web: empirical quantification and analysis of topological changes under increasing human impact. Journal of Animal Ecology 80:484-494.
12. Dunne, J. A., and R. J. Williams. 2009. Cascading extinctions and community collapse in model food webs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 364:1711-1723.
13. Dunne, J. A., R. J. Williams, and N. D. Martinez. 2002. Network structure and biodiversity loss in food webs: robustness increases with connectance. Ecology Letters 5: 558-567.
14. Ebert, G., editor. 1991-2005. Die Schmetterlinge Baden-Wurttembergs. Ulmer, Stuttgart, Germany
15. Fonseca, C. R. 2009. The silent mass extinction of insect herbivores in biodiversity hotspots. Conservation Biology 23: 1507-1515.
16. Forister, M. L., L. A. Dyer, M. S. Singer, J. O. Stireman, and J. T. Lill. 2012. Revisiting the evolution of ecological specialization, with emphasis on insect-plant interactions. Ecology 93:981-991.
17. Franzen, M., and M. Johannesson. 2007. Predicting extinction risk of butterflies and moths (Macrolepidoptera) from distribution patterns and species characteristics. Journal of Insect Conservation 11:367-390.
18. Gilarranz, L. J., and J. Bascompte. 2012. Spatial network structure and metapopulation persistence. Journal of Theoretical Biology 297:11-16.
19. Graves, S. D., and A. M. Shapiro. 2003. Exotics as host plants of the California butterfly fauna. Biological Conservation 110:413-433.
20. Heleno, R., M. Devoto, and M. Pocock. 2012. Connectance of species interaction networks and conservation value: Is it any good to be well connected? Ecological Indicators 14:7-10.
21. Helm, A., I. Hanski, and M. Partel. 2006. Slow response of plant species richness to habitat loss and fragmentation. Ecology Letters 9:72-77.
22. IUCN. 2001. IUCN Red List categories and criteria version 3.1. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
23. Keane, R. M., and M. J. Crawley. 2002. Exotic plant invasions and the enemy release hypothesis. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17:164-170.
24. Kleijn, D., and I. Raemakers. 2008. A retrospective analysis of pollen host plant use by stable and declining bumble bee species. Ecology 89:1811-1823.
25. Koch, M., and W. Heinicke. 1991. Wir bestimmen Schmetterlinge. Ausgabe in einem Band. Neumann/Neudamm, Melsungen, Germany.
26. Kondoh, M. 2003. Foraging adaptation and the relationship between food-web complexity and stability. Science 299: 1388-1391.
27. Mattila, M., J. S. Kotiaho, V. Kaitala, and A. Komonen. 2008. The use of ecological traits in extinction risk assessments: a case study on geometrid moths. Biological Conservation 141: 2322-2328.
28. McKinney, M. L., and J. L. Lockwood. 1999. Biotic homogenization: a few winners replacing many losers in the next mass extinction. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 14: 450-453.
29. Oksanen, J., F. G. Blanchet, R. Kindt, P. Legendre, B. O'Hara, G. Simpson, P. Solymos, M. H. H. Stevens, and H. Wagner. 2010. vegan: community ecology package. R package version 1.17.1. http://CRAN.R-project.org/ packagevegan
30. Parmesan, C., et al. 1999. Poleward shifts in geographical ranges of butterfly species associated with regional warming. Nature 399:579-583.
31. Pearse, I. S., and A. L. Hipp. 2009. Phylogenetic and trait similarity to a native species predict herbivory on non-native oaks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106:18097-18102.
32. Petchey, O. L., A. Eklof, C. Borrvall, and B. Ebenman. 2008. Trophically unique species are vulnerable to cascading extinction. American Naturalist 171:568-579.
33. Purvis, A., J. L. Gittleman, G. Cowlishaw, and G. M. Mace. 2000. Predicting extinction risk in declining species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 267:1947-1952.
34. R Development Core Team. 2010. R: a language and environment for statistical computing. Version 2.12.1. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. www.r-project.org
35. Ramos-Jiliberto, R., F. S. Valdovinos, P. Moisset de Espané s, and J. D. Flores. 2012. Topological plasticity increases robustness of mutualistic networks. Journal of Animal Ecology 81:896-904.
36. Rizzo, D. M., and M. Garbelotto. 2003. Sudden oak death: endangering California and Oregon forest ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1:197-204.
37. Singer, M. C., C. D. Thomas, and C. Parmesan. 1993. Rapid human-induced evolution of insect host associations. Nature 366:681-683.
38. Sole, R. V., and J. M. Montoya. 2001. Complexity and fragility in ecological networks. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 268:2039-2045.
39. Srinivasan, U. T., J. A. Dunne, J. Harte, and N. D. Martinez. 2007. Response of complex food webs to realistic extinction sequences. Ecology 88:671-682.
40. Thebault, E., and C. Fontaine. 2010. Stability of ecological communities and the architecture of mutualistic and trophic networks. Science 329:853-856.
41. Walther, G. R., E. Post, P. Convey, A. Menzel, C. Parmesan, T. J. C. Beebee, J. M. Fromentin, O. Hoegh-Guldberg, and F. Bairlein. 2002. Ecological responses to recent climate change. Nature 416:389-395.
42. Warren, M. S., et al. 2001. Rapid responses of British butterflies to opposing forces of climate and habitat change. Nature 414:65-69.
43. Wilson, R. J., C. D. Thomas, R. Fox, D. B. Roy, and W. E. Kunin. 2004. Spatial patterns in species distributions reveal biodiversity change. Nature 432:393-396.