BioOne.org will be down briefly for maintenance on 17 December 2024 between 18:00-22:00 Pacific Time US. We apologize for any inconvenience.
How to translate text using browser tools
1 July 2018 Contrasting Responses of Generalized/Specialized Mistletoe-Host Interactions under Climate Change
Juan Francisco Ornelas, Yuyini Licona-Vera, Andrés E. Ortiz-Rodriguez
Author Affiliations +
Abstract

Considering that parasitic plant distributions are constrained by host availability, we measure the effects of adding information of host distributions to predict distributions of mistletoes under climate change using ecological niche modeling (ENM). We contrasted ecological niche models of two Psittacanthus mistletoe species, P. schiedeanus, a host-generalist species inhabiting cloud forests, and P. sonorae, a Bursera-specialist restricted to the Sonoran Desert. Mistletoe models that use only climate variables were contrasted with models that also take into account biotic interactions (i.e., host) to evaluate the potential effects that future climatic conditions have on the distributions of these mistletoe-host interactions. Current potential distributions of both mistletoe species were affected by environmental conditions under future climate change scenarios. However, future projected distributions differed between mistletoe species when including host interactions, with improved accuracy models for P. schiedeanus. Our results are consistent with previous studies showing that biotic interactions can be important in structuring species distributions at regional scales.

2018 Université Laval
Juan Francisco Ornelas, Yuyini Licona-Vera, and Andrés E. Ortiz-Rodriguez "Contrasting Responses of Generalized/Specialized Mistletoe-Host Interactions under Climate Change," Ecoscience 25(3), 223-234, (1 July 2018). https://doi.org/10.1080/11956860.2018.1439297
Received: 14 October 2017; Accepted: 3 February 2018; Published: 1 July 2018
KEYWORDS
changement climatique
climate change
guis
host-parasite interaction
interaction hôte-parasite
Loranthaceae
mistletoes
RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS
Get copyright permission
Back to Top