ArticleNature communications2020
Locally-adapted reproductive photoperiodism determines population vulnerability to climate change in burying beetles.
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- Hypotheses for the Adaptive Maintenance of Phenotypic Polymorphisms.Ecology and evolution · 2026Review
- Circadian activity predicts breeding phenology in the Asian burying beetleRoyal Society open science · 2025Article
- Heat stress effects on offspring compound across parental care.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- The effect of experimental warming on reproductive performance and parental care in the burying beetleRoyal Society open science · 2024Article
- Seasonal Patterns of Resource Use Within Natural Populations of Burying Beetles.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Revisiting the ecology and evolution of burying beetle behavior (Staphylinidae: Silphinae).Ecology and evolution · 2024Review
- Local adaptation to an altitudinal gradient: the interplay between mean phenotypic trait variation and phenotypic plasticity inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Spectres of Clock Evolution: Past, Present, and Yet to Come.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Review
- Antagonistic effects of intraspecific cooperation and interspecific competition on thermal performance.eLife · 2020Article
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8 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Understanding how phenotypic traits vary among populations inhabiting different environments is critical for predicting a species' vulnerability to climate change. Yet, little is known about the key functional traits that determine the distribution of populations and the main mechanisms-phenotypic plasticity vs. local adaptation-underlying intraspecific functional trait variation. Using the Asian burying beetle Nicrophorus nepalensis, we demonstrate that mountain ranges differing in elevation and latitude offer unique thermal environments in which two functional traits-thermal tolerance and reproductive photoperiodism-interact to shape breeding phenology. We show that populations on different mountain ranges maintain similar thermal tolerances, but differ in reproductive photoperiodism. Through common garden and reciprocal transplant experiments, we confirm that reproductive photoperiodism is locally adapted and not phenotypically plastic. Accordingly, year-round breeding populations on mountains of intermediate elevation are likely to be most susceptible to future warming because maladaptation occurs when beetles try to breed at warmer temperatures.
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