Adaptive genetic variation mediates bottom-up and top-down control in an aquatic ecosystem

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1812, 2015, Pages

  Rudman, Seth M ^a   Rodriguez Cabal, Mariano A ^a,b   Stier, Adrian ^a,c   Sato, Takuya ^d   Heavyside, Julian ^a   El Sabaawi, Rana W ^e   Crutsinger, Gregory M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^d KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community genetics; Eco evolutionary dynamics; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Local adaptation; Populus trichocarpa

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; COEXISTENCE; DECIDUOUS TREE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FISH; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LEAF LITTER; LOCAL ADAPTATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; INVERTEBRATA; POPULUS; POPULUS TRICHOCARPA;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FOOD CHAIN; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULUS; SMEGMAMORPHA;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; GENETIC VARIATION; PHENOTYPE; POPULUS; SMEGMAMORPHA;

EID: 84937833584     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.1234     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Hairston NG, Ellner SP, Geber MA, Yoshida T, Fox JA. 2005 Rapid evolution and the convergence of ecological and evolutionary time. Ecol. Lett. 8, 1114–1127. (doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00812.x)
2. Ellner SP, Geber MA, Hairston NG. 2011 Does rapid evolution matter? Measuring the rate of contemporary evolution and its impacts on ecological dynamics. Ecol. Lett. 14, 603–614. (doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01616.x)
3. Hiltunen T, Becks L. 2014 Consumer co-evolution as an important component of the eco-evolutionary feedback. Nat. Commun. 5, 5226. (doi:10.1038/ncomms6226)
4. Post DM, Palkovacs EP, Schielke EG, Dodson SI. 2008 Intraspecific phenotypic variation in a predator affects zooplankton community structure and cascading trophic interactions. Ecology 89, 2019–2032. (doi:10.1890/07-1216.1)
5. Bassar RD et al. 2010 Local adaptation in Trinidadian guppies alters ecosystem processes. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 107, 3616–3621. (doi:10.1073/pnas.0908023107)
6. Farkas TE, Mononen T, Comeault AA, Hanksi I, Nosil P. 2013 Evolution of camouflage drives rapid ecological change within an insect community. Curr. Biol. 23, 1835–1843. (doi:10.1016/j.cub.2013.07.067)
7. Lundsgaard-Hansen B, Matthews B, Seehausen O. 2014 Ecological speciation and phenotypic plasticity affect ecosystems. Ecology 95, 2723–2735. (doi:10.1890/13-2338.1)
8. Harmon LJ, Matthews B, DesRoches S, Chase J, Shurin J, Schluter D. 2009 Evolutionary diversification in stickleback affects ecosystem functioning. Nature 458, 1167–1170. (doi:10.1038/nature07974)
9. Palkovacs EP, Post DM. 2009 Experimental evidence that phenotypic divergence in predators drives community divergence in prey. Ecology 90, 300–305. (doi:10.1890/08-1673.1)
10. Crutsinger GM et al. 2014 Testing a ‘genes-toecosystems’ approach to understanding aquaticterrestrial linkages. Mol. Ecol. 23, 5888–5903. (doi:10.1111/mec.12931)
11. Urban MC. 2013 Evolution mediates the effects of apex predation on aquatic food webs. Proc. R. Soc. B 280, 20130859. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.0859)
12. Brooks JL, Dodson SI. 1965 Predation, body size, and composition of the plankton. Science 150, 28–35. (doi:10.1126/science.150.3692.28)
13. Sih AP, Crowley P, McPeek M, Petranka J, Strohmeier K. 1985 Predation, competition, and prey communities: a review of field experiments. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 16, 269–311. (doi:10.1146/annurev.es.16.110185.001413)
14. Bolnick DI, Svanbäck R, Fordyce JA, Yang LH, Davis JM, Hulsey CD, Forister ML. 2003 The ecology of individuals: incidence and implications of individual specialization. Am. Nat. 161, 1–28. (doi:10.1086/343878)
15. Bolnick DI et al. 2011 Why intraspecific trait variation matters in community ecology. Trends Ecol. Evol. 26, 183–192. (doi:10.1016/j.tree.2011.01.009)
16. Whitham TG et al. 2006 A framework for community and ecosystem genetics: from genes to ecosystems. Nat. Rev. Genet. 7, 510–523. (doi:10.1038/nrg1877)
17. Schweitzer JA, Bailey JK, Hart SC, Wimp GM, Chapman S, Whitham TG. 2005 The interaction of plant genotype and herbivory decelerate leaf litter decomposition and alter nutrient dynamics. Oikos 110, 133–145. (doi:10.1111/j.0030-1299.2005.13650.x)
18. Crutsinger GM, Collins MD, Fordyce JA, Gompert Z, Nice CC, Sanders NJ. 2006 Plant genotypic diversity predicts community structure and governs an ecosystem process. Science 313, 966–968. (doi:10.1126/science.1128326)
19. Hughes AR, Inouye BD, Johnson MTJ, Underwood N, Vellend M. 2008 Ecological consequences of genetic diversity. Ecol. Lett. 11, 609–623. (doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01179.x)
20. Bailey JK et al. 2009 From genes to ecosystems: a synthesis of the effects of plant genetic factors across levels of organization. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 364, 1607–1616. (doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0336)
21. Johnson MT, Vellend M, Stinchcombe JR. 2009 Evolution in plant populations as a driver of ecological changes in arthropod communities. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 364, 1593–1605. (doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0334)
22. Jackrel SL, Wootton JT. 2013 Local adaptation of stream communities to intraspecific variation in a terrestrial ecosystem subsidy. Ecology 95, 37–43. (doi:10.1890/13-0804.1)
23. Hereford J. 2009 A quantitative survey of local adaptation and fitness trade-offs. Am. Nat. 173, 579–588. (doi:10.1086/597611)
24. Hunter MD, Price P. 1992 Playing chutes and ladders. Heterogeneity and the relative roles of bottom-up and top-down forces in natural communities. Ecology 73, 724–732.
25. Power ME. 1992 Top-down and bottom-up forces in food webs—do plants have primacy? Ecology 73, 733–746. (doi:10.2307/1940153)
26. Rosemond AD, Mulholland PJ, Elwood JW. 1993 Top-down and bottom-up control of stream periphyton: effects of nutrients and herbivores. Ecology 74, 1264–1280. (doi:10.2307/1940495)
27. Forkner RE, Hunter MD. 2000 What goes up must come down? Nutrient addition and predation pressure on oak herbivores. Ecology 81, 1588–1600. (doi:10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081 [1588:WGUMCD]2.0.CO;2)
28. Schluter D, McPhail JD. 1992 Ecological character displacement and speciation in sticklebacks. Am. Nat. 140, 85–108. (doi:10.1086/285404)
29. Kratina P, Greig HS, Thompson PL, Carvalho-Pereira TSA, Shurin JB. 2012 Warming modifies trophic cascades and eutrophication in experimental freshwater communities. Ecology 93, 1421–1430. (doi:10.1890/11-1595.1)
30. Wallace JB, Eggert SL, Meyer JL, Webster JR. 1997 Multiple trophic levels of a forest stream linked to terrestrial litter inputs. Science 277, 102–104. (doi:10.1126/science.277.5322.102)
31. Gessner et al. 2010 Diversity meets decomposition. Trends Ecol. Evol. 25, 372–380. (doi:10.1016/j.tree.2010.01.010)
32. McKown AD et al. 2014 Geographical and environmental gradients shape phenotypic trait variation and genetic structure in Populus trichocarpa. New Phytol. 201, 1263–1276. (doi:10.1111/nph.12601)
33. Schluter D. 1993 Adaptive radiation in sticklebacks— size, shape, and habitat use efficiency. Ecology 74, 699–709. (doi:10.2307/1940797)
34. Carpenter SR, Kitchell JF, Hodgson JR. 1985 Cascading trophic interactions and lake productivity: fish predation and herbivory can regulate lake ecosystems. Bioscience 35, 634–638. (doi:10.2307/1309989)
35. Weber JC, Stettler RF, Heilman PE. 1985 Genetic variation and productivity of Populus trichocarpa and its hybrids. I. Morphology and phenology of 50 native clones. Can. J. For. Res. 15, 376–383. (doi:10.1139/x85-060)
36. Xie C-Y, Carlson MR, Ying CC. 2012 Ecotypic mode of regional differentiation of black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa) due to restricted gene migration: further evidence from a field test on the northern coast of British Columbia. Can. J. For. Res. 42, 400–405. (doi:10.1139/x11-187)
37. Nürnberg GK, Peters RH. 1984 Biological availability of soluble reactive phosphorus in anoxic and toxic freshwaters. Can. J. Fish. Aq. Sci. 41, 757–765. (doi:10.1139/f84-088)
38. Throop HL, Lerdau MT. 2004 Effects of nitrogen deposition on insect herbivory: implications for community and ecosystem processes. Ecosystems 7, 109–133. (doi:10.1007/s10021-003-0225-x)
39. Polis GA, Anderson WB, Holt RD. 1997 Toward an integration of landscape ecology and food web ecology: the dynamics of spatially subsidized food webs. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 28, 289–316. (doi:10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.28.1.289)
40. Cole JJ, Carpenter SR, Kitchell J, Pace ML, Solomon CT, Weidel B. 2011 Strong evidence for terrestrial support of zooplankton in small lakes based on stable isotopes of carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 108, 1975–1980. (doi:10.1073/pnas.1012807108)
41. Vanni MJ. 2002 Nutrient cycling by animals in freshwater ecosystems. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 33, 341–370. (doi:10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.33.010802.150519)
42. Hendrixson HA, Sterner RW, Kay AD. 2007 Elemental stoichiometry of freshwater fishes in relation to phylogeny, allometry and ecology. J. Fish Biol. 70, 121–140. (doi:10.1111/j.1095-8649.2006.01280.x)