scholarly journals Climate Change and Local Host Availability Drive the Northern Range Boundary in the Rapid Expansion of a Specialist Insect Herbivore, Papilio cresphontes

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Keaton Wilson ◽  
Nicolas Casajus ◽  
Rebecca A. Hutchinson ◽  
Kent P. McFarland ◽  
Jeremy T. Kerr ◽  
...  

Species distributions, abundance, and interactions have always been influenced by human activity and are currently experiencing rapid change. Biodiversity benchmark surveys traditionally require intense human labor inputs to find, identify, and record organisms limiting the rate and impact of scientific enquiry and discovery. Recent emergence and advancement of monitoring technologies have improved biodiversity data collection to a scale and scope previously unimaginable. Community science web platforms, smartphone applications, and technology assisted identification have expedited the speed and enhanced the volume of observational data all while providing open access to these data worldwide. How to integrate and leverage the data into valuable information on how species are changing in space and time requires new best practices in computational and analytical approaches. Here we integrate data from three community science repositories to explore how a specialist herbivore distribution changes in relation to host plant distributions and other environmental factors. We generate a series of temporally explicit species distribution models to generate range predictions for a specialist insect herbivore (Papilio cresphontes) and three predominant host-plant species. We find that this insect species has experienced rapid northern range expansion, likely due to a combination of the range of its larval host plants and climate changes in winter. This case study shows rapid data collection through large scale community science endeavors can be leveraged through thoughtful data integration and transparent analytic pipelines to inform how environmental change impacts where species are and their interactions for a more cost effective method of biodiversity benchmarking.

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (18) ◽  
pp. 4197-4211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda L. Driscoe ◽  
Chris C. Nice ◽  
Robert W. Busbee ◽  
Glen R. Hood ◽  
Scott P. Egan ◽  
...  

Evolution ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 70 (9) ◽  
pp. 2110-2122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aino Kalske ◽  
Roosa Leimu ◽  
J. F. Scheepens ◽  
Pia Mutikainen

PLoS ONE ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. e0190700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osariyekemwen O. Uyi ◽  
Costas Zachariades ◽  
Lelethu U. Heshula ◽  
Martin P. Hill

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 1103-1109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margriet van Asch ◽  
Riita Julkunen-Tiito ◽  
Marcel E. Visser

PLoS ONE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. e0139234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhijie Zhang ◽  
Xiaoyun Pan ◽  
Ziyan Zhang ◽  
Kate S. He ◽  
Bo Li

Author(s):  
Alba Grifoni ◽  
John Sidney ◽  
Yun Zhang ◽  
Richard H Scheuermann ◽  
Bjoern Peters ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTEffective countermeasures against the recent emergence and rapid expansion of the 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) require the development of data and tools to understand and monitor viral spread and immune responses. However, little information about the targets of immune responses to 2019-nCoV is available. We used the Immune Epitope Database and Analysis Resource (IEDB) resource to catalog available data related to other coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV, which has high sequence similarity to 2019-nCoV, and is the best-characterized coronavirus in terms of epitope responses. We identified multiple specific regions in 2019-nCoV that have high homology to SARS virus. Parallel bionformatic predictions identified a priori potential B and T cell epitopes for 2019-nCoV. The independent identification of the same regions using two approaches reflects the high probability that these regions are targets for immune recognition of 2019-nCoV.ONE SENTENCE SUMMARYWe identified potential targets for immune responses to 2019-nCoV and provide essential information for understanding human immune responses to this virus and evaluation of diagnostic and vaccine candidates.


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