Effects of temperature on growth, development and diapause in the yellow dung fly - against all the rules?

被引:48
作者
Blanckenhorn, WU
机构
[1] Zoologisches Museum, Universität Zürich, CH-8057 Zürich
关键词
body size; diapause; juvenile development; Scathophaga stercoraria; temperature;
D O I
10.1007/s004420050241
中图分类号
Q14 [生态学(生物生态学)];
学科分类号
071012 ; 0713 ;
摘要
The effects of rearing temperature (and photoperiod) on growth, development. body size, and diapause induction and termination in the yellow dung fly, Scathophaga stercoraria, were investigated by allowing replicate families of larvae to develop in the field along a time sequence approaching the onset of winter. This was supplemented with extensive laboratory rearing. At constant laboratory temperatures, growth rates were maximal between 15 degrees C and 20 degrees C and decreased at higher (25 degrees C) and Iower (10 degrees C) temperatures, while the development rate was maximal at 15 degrees C. Perhaps related to this. yellow dung flies reached a given size faster at naturally variable, as opposed to constant. temperatures. In the field, lower temperatures towards the end of the season resulted in larger individuals that grew faster. Adult body size increased as development time, expressed in calendar days, increased, a positive relationship commonly taken for granted in life history theory, but decreased as development time expressed in degree-days increased. The effect of temperature oil growth, development and body size fall thus change or even reverse if individuals can alter their growth rate independently of development time, and if the physiological effects of temperature are factored out by converting development time into degree-days above a lower development threshold. Therefore, supposedly well-established trends possibly need to be re-examined along these lines. Pupal winter diapause towards the end of the season was highly reversible by temperature. Pre- and post-winter emergence patterns together suggest that the minimum time for yellow dung flies to successfully complete development. at any time of the year, is about 230-250 degree-days.
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页码:318 / 324
页数:7
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