Impacts of local adaptation of forest trees on associations with herbivorous insects: implications for adaptive forest management.

ABSTRACT: Disruption of species interactions is a key issue in climate change biology. Interactions involving forest trees may be particularly vulnerable due to evolutionary rate limitations imposed by long generation times. One mitigation strategy for such impacts is Climate matching - the augmentation of local native tree populations by input from nonlocal populations currently experiencing predicted future climates. This strategy is controversial because of potential cascading impacts on locally adapted animal communities. We explored these impacts using abundance data for local native gallwasp herbivores sampled from 20 provenances of sessile oak (Quercus petraea) planted in a common garden trial. We hypothesized that non-native provenances would show (i) declining growth performance with increa

SUBMITTER: Sinclair FH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4662346 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature