Publication Date
9-20-2019
Document Type
Article
Organizational Units
College of Natural Science and Mathematics, Biological Sciences
Keywords
Global change, Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Insect, Hybridization
Abstract
Contemporary global change is altering ecosystems at an unprecedented pace and scale. This critical period is a crisis for biodiversity, but the perturbations caused by global environmental change also offer new opportunities to study the evolution of species boundaries—their persistence, formation, or collapse—over rapid evolutionary timescales. Increasing temperature means and fluctuations have the potential to alter gene flow between species through changes in species distributions, interactions, life history, and temperature-dependent behavior. This is particularly true for insects, whose geographic ranges, behaviors, and life history traits are temperature dependent. Here, we review the potential for climate change to influence gene flow and species boundaries between closely related insect species. We focus on studies that have tracked changes in climate and insect distributions and/or have evaluated temperature dependent reproductive barriers between species.
Copyright Date
9-20-2019
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The Authors
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Language
English (eng)
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Publication Statement
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Larson, E. L., Tinghitella, R. M., & Taylor, S. A. (2019). Insect hybridization and climate change. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7, 1-11. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00348
Publication Title
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Volume
7
First Page
1
Last Page
11
ISSN
2296-701X
Recommended Citation
Larson, E. L., Tinghitella, R. M., & Taylor, S. A. (2019). Insect hybridization and climate change. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7, 1-11. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00348