Environment and phenology shape local adaptation in thermal performance

Villeneuve, Andrew R; Komoroske, Lisa M; Cheng, Brian S

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Environment and phenology shape local adaptation in thermal performance

dc.contributor.author	Villeneuve, Andrew R
dc.contributor.author	Komoroske, Lisa M
dc.contributor.author	Cheng, Brian S
dc.contributor.department	University of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.contributor.department	University of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.contributor.department	University of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.date	2023-09-24T09:21:47.000
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-26T19:33:18Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-26T19:33:18Z
dc.date.issued	2021-01-01
dc.description.abstract	Populations within species often exhibit variation in traits that reflect local adaptation and further shape existing adaptive potential for species to respond to climate change. However, our mechanistic understanding of how the environment shapes trait variation remains poor. Here, we used common garden experiments to quantify thermal performance in eight populations of the marine snail Urosalpinx cinerea across thermal gradients on the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts of North America. We then evaluated the relationship between thermal performance and environmental metrics derived from time-series data. Our results reveal a novel pattern of ‘mixed’ trait performance adaptation, where thermal optima were positively correlated with spawning temperature (cogradient variation), while maximum trait performance was negatively correlated with season length (countergradient variation). This counterintuitive pattern probably arises because of phenological shifts in the spawning season, whereby ‘cold’ populations delay spawning until later in the year when temperatures are warmer compared to ‘warm’ populations that spawn earlier in the year when temperatures are cooler. Our results show that variation in thermal performance can be shaped by multiple facets of the environment and are linked to organismal phenology and natural history. Understanding the impacts of climate change on organisms, therefore, requires the knowledge of how climate change will alter different aspects of the thermal environment.
dc.description.pages	20210741
dc.description.sponsorship	PADI Foundation (40638), American Malacological Society Melbourne R. Carriker Student Research Award, National Science Foundation Award OCE-2023571, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, US Department of Agriculture, the Center for Agriculture, Food and the Environment and the Department of Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Award MAS00558
dc.identifier.citation	Villeneuve AR, Komoroske LM, Cheng BS (2021) Environment and phenology shape local adaptation in thermal performance. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288: 20210741.
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0741
dc.identifier.orcid	ARV - 0000-0001-7303-5931, LMK – 0000-0003-0676-7053, BSC – 0000-0003-1679-8398
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/37720
dc.relation.ispartof	Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
dc.relation.url	https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1459&context=nrc_faculty_pubs&unstamped=1
dc.rights	UMass Amherst Open Access Policy
dc.source.issue	1955
dc.source.issue	288
dc.source.status	published
dc.subject	Countergradient variation; environmental drivers; latitudinal gradients; local adaptation; seasonality; thermal performance curve
dc.subject	Environmental Monitoring
dc.subject	Environmental Sciences
dc.subject	Natural Resources and Conservation
dc.title	Environment and phenology shape local adaptation in thermal performance
dc.type	article
dc.type	article
digcom.contributor.author	isAuthorOfPublication\|email:andrewrvilleneuve@gmail.com\|institution:University of Massachusetts Amherst\|Villeneuve, Andrew R
digcom.contributor.author	isAuthorOfPublication\|email:lkomoroske@umass.edu\|institution:University of Massachusetts Amherst\|Komoroske, Lisa M
digcom.contributor.author	isAuthorOfPublication\|email:bscheng@umass.edu\|institution:University of Massachusetts Amherst\|Cheng, Brian S
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