scholarly journals Ecology of the River Darter in Canadian Waters: Distribution, Relative Abundance, Life-History Traits, Diet, and Habitat Characteristics

Diversity ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Pratt ◽  
William Gardner ◽  
Douglas Watkinson ◽  
Lynn Bouvier
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Relative Abundance ◽  
Life History Traits ◽  
Habitat Characteristics

scholarly journals Telomere length covaries with age across an elevational gradient in a Mediterranean lizard

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Burraco ◽  
Mar Comas ◽  
Senda Reguera ◽  
Francisco Javier Zamora-Camacho ◽  
Gregorio Moreno-Rueda
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Body Size ◽  
Telomere Length ◽  
Body Condition ◽  
Life History Traits ◽  
Elevational Gradient ◽  
Habitat Characteristics ◽  
Tail Autotomy ◽  
Non Linear

AbstractThe timing of organisms’ senescence is developmentally programmed but also shaped by the interaction between environmental inputs and life-history traits. In ectotherms, ageing dynamics are still poorly understood despite their particularities concerning thermoregulation, regeneration capacity, or growth trajectory. Here, we investigate the role of life-history traits such as age, sex, body size, body condition, and tail autotomy (i.e self-amputation) in shaping telomere length of six populations of the Algerian sand lizard (Psammodromus algirus) distributed across an elevational gradient from 300 to 2500 meters above the sea level. Additionally, we show in a review table the available information on reptiles’ telomere length. We found that telomeres elongated with lizards’ age. We also observed that body size and age class showed a positive relationship, suggesting that cell replication did not shorten lizards’ telomeres by itself. Elevation affected telomere length in a non-linear way, a pattern that mirrored the variation in age structure across elevation. Telomere length was unaffected by tail autotomy, and was sex-independent, but positively correlated with body condition. Our results show that telomeres elongate throughout the first four years of lizards’ lifetime, a process that stress the role of telomerase in maintaining ectothermic telomeres, and, likely, in extending lifespan in organisms with indeterminate growth. Regarding the non-linear impact that elevation had on telomere length of lizards, our results suggest that habitat (mainly temperature) and organisms’ condition might play a key role in regulation ageing rate. Our findings emphasize the relevance of understanding species’ life histories (e.g. age and body condition) and habitat characteristics for fully disentangling the causes and consequences of lifespan trajectory.

scholarly journals Anti-predation Defense Traits of Daphnia are Associated With the Gut Microbiota Composition Shaped by Fish Kairomone

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Liu ◽  
Siddiq Akbar ◽  
Zihao Ding ◽  
Qiming Zhou ◽  
Lei Gu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Gut Microbiota ◽  
Relative Abundance ◽  
Life History Traits ◽  
Induced Defense ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Microbiota Composition ◽  
Fish Kairomone ◽  
Α Diversity ◽  
Gut Microbiota Composition

Abstract Background: Gut microbiota plays an important role in host physiology and fitness. The gut microbiota can promote host health by influencing life history traits, especially in arthropods. However, it is not clear whether the performance of host defense traits in response to predator pressure in natural food webs is related to their gut microbiota composition. In this study, we used Daphnia magna as a model organism to investigate the relationship of D. magna life history traits and gut microbiota alterations under predator kairomone based on 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing.Result: We showed that the microbiota composition of D. magna was significantly affected by their predator risk and development stage. The relative abundance of Comamonadaceae (mainly Limnohabitans sp.) significantly decreased in the presence of predator kairomone. Furthermore, the presence of predator kairomone significantly reduced the α diversity of gut microbiota in D. magna with the increase of instar. Among them, the OTUs belonged to Epsilonbacteraeota and Firmicutes in the presence of predator kairomone were significantly higher than those in the control group. The results of functional predictions showed that predation pressure promote the metabolic function of gut microbiota, such as metabolism of energy, cofactors, and vitamins. By analyzing the correlation between the induced defense traits of D. magna and the relative abundance of bacteria, we found that the increased abundance of Comamonadaceae, Moraxellaceae, and Flavobacteriaceae were linearly correlated with the partial defense traits of D. magna. Specifically speaking, body size was positively correlated with an increased abundance of Comamonadaceae, whereas spine length was negatively correlated with an increased abundance of Comamonadaceae but was positively correlated with increased Flavobacteriaceae abundance. Conclusions: Our results suggested that predation risk can affect the composition of the gut microbiota in D. magna, which may indirectly induce the production of defensive traits in D. magna. The results of this study revealed an important role of gut microbiota in the development of defensive traits of Daphnia in response to fish predators. The correlation between microbial abundance and defense traits is of great significance for further understanding the effect of host-microbiota interaction on individual anti-predation defense.

Life history traits predict relative abundance in an assemblage of forest caterpillars

Ecology ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 91 (11) ◽  
pp. 3274-3283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric M. Lind ◽  
Pedro Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Relative Abundance ◽  
Life History Traits

Prey tell: what quillback rockfish early life history traits reveal about their survival in encounters with juvenile coho salmon

2020 ◽  
Vol 650 ◽  
pp. 7-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
HW Fennie ◽  
S Sponaugle ◽  
EA Daly ◽  
RD Brodeur
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Life History Traits ◽  
Direct Evidence ◽  
Coho Salmon ◽  
Larval Fish ◽  
Early Life History ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Otolith Microstructure Analysis ◽  
Pelagic Juvenile

Predation is a major source of mortality in the early life stages of fishes and a driving force in shaping fish populations. Theoretical, modeling, and laboratory studies have generated hypotheses that larval fish size, age, growth rate, and development rate affect their susceptibility to predation. Empirical data on predator selection in the wild are challenging to obtain, and most selective mortality studies must repeatedly sample populations of survivors to indirectly examine survivorship. While valuable on a population scale, these approaches can obscure selection by particular predators. In May 2018, along the coast of Washington, USA, we simultaneously collected juvenile quillback rockfish Sebastes maliger from both the environment and the stomachs of juvenile coho salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch. We used otolith microstructure analysis to examine whether juvenile coho salmon were age-, size-, and/or growth-selective predators of juvenile quillback rockfish. Our results indicate that juvenile rockfish consumed by salmon were significantly smaller, slower growing at capture, and younger than surviving (unconsumed) juvenile rockfish, providing direct evidence that juvenile coho salmon are selective predators on juvenile quillback rockfish. These differences in early life history traits between consumed and surviving rockfish are related to timing of parturition and the environmental conditions larval rockfish experienced, suggesting that maternal effects may substantially influence survival at this stage. Our results demonstrate that variability in timing of parturition and sea surface temperature leads to tradeoffs in early life history traits between growth in the larval stage and survival when encountering predators in the pelagic juvenile stage.

Life History Traits in a Population of Pelobates syriacus (Boettger, 1889) from Turkey

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 195-200
Author(s):  
Ufuk Bülbül ◽  
Halime Koç ◽  
Yasemin Odabaş ◽  
Ali İhsan Eroğlu ◽  
Muammer Kurnaz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Age Structure ◽  
Life History Traits ◽  
Spadefoot Toad ◽  
Males And Females

Age structure of the eastern spadefoot toad, Pelobates syriacus from the Kızılırmak Delta (Turkey) were assessed using phalangeal skeletochronology. Snout-vent length (SVL) ranged from 42.05 to 86.63 mm in males and 34.03 to 53.27 mm in females. Age of adults ranged from 2 to 8 years in males and 3 to 5 years in females. For both sexes, SVL was significantly correlated with age. Males and females of the toads reached maturity at 2 years of age.

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