Coevolution of species colonisation rates controls food-chain length in spatially structured food webs.
dispersal
eco-evolutionary dynamics
habitat destruction
metacommunity
patch occupancy model
Journal
Ecology letters
ISSN: 1461-0248
Titre abrégé: Ecol Lett
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101121949
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Sep 2023
Sep 2023
Historique:
revised:
13
04
2023
received:
12
10
2022
accepted:
09
05
2023
pubmed:
12
6
2023
medline:
12
6
2023
entrez:
12
6
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
How the complexity of food webs depends on environmental variables is a long-standing ecological question. It is unclear though how food-chain length should vary with adaptive evolution of the constitutive species. Here we model the evolution of species colonisation rates and its consequences on occupancies and food-chain length in metacommunities. When colonisation rates can evolve, longer food-chains can persist. Extinction, perturbation and habitat loss all affect evolutionarily stable colonisation rates, but the strength of the competition-colonisation trade-off has a major role: weaker trade-offs yield longer chains. Although such eco-evo dynamics partly alleviates the spatial constraint on food-chain length, it is no magic bullet: the highest, most vulnerable, trophic levels are also those that least benefit from evolution. We provide qualitative predictions regarding how trait evolution affects the response of communities to disturbance and habitat loss. This highlights the importance of eco-evolutionary dynamics at metacommunity level in determining food-chain length.
Types de publication
Letter
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
S140-S151Subventions
Organisme : Agence Nationale de la Recherche
ID : AFFAIRS
Organisme : Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement
Informations de copyright
© 2023 The Authors. Ecology Letters published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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