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ArticleCommunications biology2024

Metabolic plasticity drives mismatches in physiological traits between prey and predator.

Flavio Affinito, Rebecca L Kordas, Miguel G Matias, Samraat Pawar

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Article in Communications biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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4 authors.

Flavio AffinitoImperial College London Silwood Park, Buckhurst Road, Berks, SL5 7PY, UK. flavio.affinito@mail.mcgill.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-8328-3004
Rebecca L KordasImperial College London Silwood Park, Buckhurst Road, Berks, SL5 7PY, UK.
Miguel G MatiasMuseo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), C. de José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2, Chamartín, 28006, Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-9198-2051
Samraat PawarImperial College London Silwood Park, Buckhurst Road, Berks, SL5 7PY, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8375-5684

Funding

EC | Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020) No 731065Ministry of Education and Science | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation) PTDC/BIA-BIC/0352/2014Royal Society RG150320
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metabolic rate, the rate of energy use, underpins key ecological traits of organisms, from development and locomotion to interaction rates between individuals. In a warming world, the temperature-dependence of metabolic rate is anticipated to shift predator-prey dynamics. Yet, there is little real-world evidence on the effects of warming on trophic interactions. We measured the respiration rates of aquatic larvae of three insect species from populations experiencing a natural temperature gradient in a large-scale mesocosm experiment. Using a mechanistic model we predicted the effects of warming on these taxa's predator-prey interaction rates. We found that species-specific differences in metabolic plasticity lead to mismatches in the temperature-dependence of their relative velocities, resulting in altered predator-prey interaction rates. This study underscores the role of metabolic plasticity at the species level in modifying trophic interactions and proposes a mechanistic modelling approach that allows an efficient, high-throughput estimation of climate change threats across species pairs.

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Climate ChangeFood ChainPredatory BehaviorAnimalsInsectaLarvaSpecies SpecificityTemperature

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PMID38806643
PMCPMC11133466

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