Phenology of Drosophila species across a temperate growing season and implications for behavior.

ABSTRACT: Drosophila community composition is complex in temperate regions with different abundance of flies and species across the growing season. Monitoring Drosophila populations provides insights into the phenology of both native and invasive species. Over a single growing season, we collected Drosophila at regular intervals and determined the number of individuals of the nine species we found in Kansas, USA. Species varied in their presence and abundance through the growing season with peak diversity occurring after the highest seasonal temperatures. We developed models for the abundance of the most common species, Drosophila melanogaster, D. simulans, D. algonquin, and the recent invasive species, D. suzukii. These models revealed that temperature played the largest role in abundance of each s

SUBMITTER: Gleason JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6521991 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature