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Using dynamic energy budget (DEB) theory, this paper explores the potential of excess and harmful radiation, notably UV, to cause changes in performance and, ultimately, bleaching in scleractinian corals for a range of ambient nitrogen and (beneficial) photosynthetically active radiation levels. Two negative impacts of radiation are considered: a reduction in the capacity of the symbiont to generate energy through photosynthesis (defined in this paper as photoinhibition); an increase in the costs for the symbiont to remain viable due to repair of damage (defined in this paper as photodamage). Model predictions indicate that although both types of impact reduce the growth potential of host and symbiont, photoinhibition predominantly affects host features, except at very low ambient nitrogen levels, under which conditions the severity of nitrogen limitation is so strong that a reduction in photosynthetic rates due to photoinhibition has minimal impact. In steady state, photoinhibition leads to a reduction in host biomass, and an increase in symbiont density, implying that photoinhibition (as defined in this paper) is unlikely to cause bleaching. In contrast, the impact of photodamage is mostly affecting symbiont features, including a decline in symbiont density. Thus, photodamage may contribute to coral bleaching. Furthermore, the model predicts that, with both photoinhibition and photodamage, an increasing ratio of harmful to beneficial radiation accelerates the suppression of growth rates of symbiont and host, implying that coral health deteriorates progressively faster with increasing harmful radiation, such as UVb. 相似文献
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本文依据生态学理论对海岛土地及土地系统生态功能进行了重新的认识,并探讨了海岛土地系统生态设计的依据、原则和模式.设计中强调以土地系统生态保护性功能为主体,以海岛土地系统高层次调合发展作为海岛建设的最终目标. 相似文献
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Freddie-Jeanne Richard Michael Poulsen Abraham Hefetz Christine Errard David R. Nash Jacobus J. Boomsma 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2007,61(11):1637-1649
Cuticular hydrocarbon profiles are essential for nestmate recognition in insect societies, and quantitative variation in these
recognition cues is both environmentally and genetically determined. Environmental cues are normally derived from food or
nest material, but an exceptional situation may exist in the fungus-growing ants where the symbiotic fungus garden may be
an independent source of recognition compounds. To investigate this hypothesis, we quantified the chemical profiles of the
fungal symbionts of 18 sympatric colonies of Acromyrmex echinatior and Acromyrmex octospinosus and evaluated the quantitative variation of the 47 compounds in a multivariate analysis. Colony-specific chemical profiles
of fungal symbionts were highly distinct and significantly different between the two ant species. We also estimated the relative
genetic distances between the fungal symbionts using amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) and correlated these with
the overall (Mahalanobis) chemical distances between the colony-specific profiles. Despite the standardized laboratory conditions,
the correlations were generally weak, but a statistically significant portion of the total variation in chemical profiles
could be explained by genetic differences between the fungal symbionts. However, there was no significant effect of ant species
in partial analyses because genetic differences between symbionts tend to coincide with being reared by different ant species.
However, compound groups differed significantly with amides, aldehydes, and methyl esters contributing to the correlations,
but acetates, alkanes, and formates being unrelated to genetic variation among symbionts. We show experimentally that workers
that are previously exposed to and fed with the fungal symbiont of another colony are met with less aggression when they are
later introduced into that colony. It appears, therefore, that fungus gardens are an independent and significant source of
chemical compounds, potentially contributing a richer and more abundant blend of recognition cues to the colony “gestalt”
than the innate chemical profile of the ants alone.
Freddie-Jeanne Richard and Michael Poulsen contributed equally to this work. 相似文献
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Pollination systems in which the host plant provides breeding sites for pollinators, invariably within flowers, are usually
highly specialized mutualisms. We found that the pollinating bee Braunsapis puangensis breeds within the caulinary domatia of the semi-myrmecophyte Humboldtia brunonis (Fabaceae), an unusual ant-plant that is polymorphic for the presence of domatia and harbours a diverse invertebrate fauna
including protective and non-protective ants in its domatia. B. puangensis is the most common flower visitor that carries the highest proportion of H. brunonis pollen. This myrmecophyte is pollen limited and cross-pollinated by bees in the daytime. Hence, the symbiotic pollinator
could provide a benefit to trees bearing domatia by alleviating this limitation. We therefore report for the first time an
unspecialised mutualism in which a pollinator is housed in a plant structure other than flowers. Here, the cost to the plant
is lower than for conventional brood-site pollination mutualisms where the pollinator develops at the expense of plant reproductive
structures. Myrmecophytes housing resident pollinators are unusual, as ants are known to be enemies of pollinators, and housing
them together may decrease the benefits that these residents could individually provide to the host plant. 相似文献
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Aphids often form mutualistic associations with ants, in which the aphids provide the ants with honeydew and the ants defend the aphids from predators. In this paper, we report aphid egg protection by ants as a novel aspect of the deeply interdependent relationship between a tree-feeding aphid and its attendant ant. The ant Lasius productus harbours oviparous females, males, and eggs of the hinoki cypress-feeding aphid Stomaphis hirukawai in its nests in winter. We investigated the behaviour of ants kept with aphid eggs in petri dishes to examine whether the ants recognise the aphid eggs and tend them or only provide a refuge for the aphids. Workers carried almost all of the aphid eggs into the nest within 24 h. The ants indiscriminately tended aphid eggs collected from their own colonies and those from other ant colonies. The ants cleaned the eggs and piled them up in the nest, and egg tending by ants dramatically increased aphid egg survival rates. Starving the ants showed no significant effect on aphid egg survivorship. Without ants, aphid eggs were rapidly killed by fungi. These results suggested that grooming by the ants protected the aphid eggs, at least, against pathogenic fungi. This hygienic service afforded by the ants seems indispensable for egg survival of these aphids in an environment rich in potentially pathogenic microorganisms.Electronic supplementary material Supplementary material is available for this article at and is accessible for authorized users. 相似文献
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Michael P. Lombardo 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2008,62(4):479-497
A central question in behavioral ecology has been why animals live in groups. Previous theories about the evolution of sociality
focused on the potential benefits of decreased risk of predation, increased foraging or feeding efficiency, and mutual aid
in defending resources and/or rearing offspring. This paper argues that access to mutualistic endosymbiotic microbes is an
underappreciated benefit of group living and sets out to reinvigorate Troyer’s hypothesis that the need to obtain cellulolytic
microbes from conspecifics influenced the evolution of social behavior in herbivores and to extend it to nonherbivores. This
extension is necessary because the benefits of endosymbionts are not limited to nutrition; endosymbionts also help protect
their hosts from pathogens. When hosts must obtain endosymbionts from conspecifics, they are forced to interact. Thus, complex
forms of sociality may be more likely to evolve when hosts must repeatedly obtain endosymbionts from conspecifics than when
endosymbionts can be obtained either directly from the environment, are vertically transmitted, or when repeated inoculations
are not necessary. Observations from a variety of taxa are consistent with the ideas that individuals benefit from group living
by gaining access to endosymbionts and the complexity of social behavior is associated with the mode of acquisition of endosymbionts.
Ways to test this theory include (a) experiments designed to examine the effects of endosymbionts on host fitness and how
endosymbionts are obtained and (b) using phylogenetic analyses to examine endosymbiont–host coevolution with the goal of determining
the relationship between the mode of endosymbiont acquisition and host sociality. 相似文献
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Carol E. Johnston 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1994,35(6):379-383
Nest association, or the habit of spawning in the nest of another species, is a widespread reproductive strategy among North American fishes, especially minnows. The hosts of nest associates include sunfishes and nest-building minnows. Previous experiments demonstrated that nest associates benefited from the parental care of hosts. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of nest associates on hosts, and thereby characterize the relationship as parasitic, mutualistic or commensal. Since hosts with associates had higher reproductive success than those without associates in this experiment, I characterize nest association as a mutualistic relationship, at least in some systems. The dilution effect is the proposed mechanism responsible for the higher reproductive success of hosts with associates. 相似文献