极端气候事件的新模式引发了常见昆虫的负数种群率
Maria Vives-Ingla1,2,3, Pol Capdevila2,4,5, Christopher F Clements5
1Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain.
Global change biology
|April 7, 2025
概括
极端天气事件,或低概率,高影响 (LLHI) 事件,不成比例地影响昆虫种群. 机械模型显示,这些事件,特别是极端的热量,可能会导致丰富物种的严重减少,影响生态系统.
科学领域:
- 生态生态学 生态生态学
- 气候变化生物学 气候变化生物学
- 人口动态 人口动态
背景情况:
- 政府间气候变化专门委员会 (IPCC) 预测极端天气事件的增加.
- 低概率,高影响 (LLHI) 事件由于人口的非线性反应,造成了重大风险.
- 预测生物多样性对气候变化的反应需要整合基本生物过程的机械模型.
研究的目的:
- 开发一个整合气候极端和资源短缺的机制模型,以预测对昆虫种群的人口影响.
- 评估LLHI事件对地中海昆虫物种整个生命周期的影响.
- 根据当前和未来的气候场景,确定影响人口动态的关键生命阶段和气候驱动因素.
主要方法:
- 使用地中海地区昆虫种群的长期监测数据构建了一个矩阵种群模型 (MPM).
- 综合了极端微气候热量和干旱引起的宿主植物稀缺性对敏感的生命早期阶段的影响.
- 在当前气候条件下和未来气候场景下模拟的人口动态,包括那些没有达到"巴黎协定"目标的人.
主要成果:
- 青少年生命阶段对人口动态的相对贡献最大.
- 干旱的影响显著影响了模拟人口率,导致人口减少和不减少的马赛克.
- 模拟表明,在未来的气候场景下,LLHI极端的热量可能导致研究的昆虫物种的广泛和严重的人口下降.
结论:
- LLHI事件,特别是极端高温事件,可能会成为昆虫数量下降的关键,被忽视的驱动因素.
- 由于LLHI事件导致丰富的昆虫物种的减少可能会威胁到生态系统的基本功能.
- 基于过程的全周期建模方法对于准确评估气候变化对生物多样性的人口影响至关重要.
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