Seasonal diversity of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) is more complex than thought: Evidence from a tropical dry forest of Mexico

José Guadalupe Martínez-Hernández, Angélica María Corona-López, Alejandro Flores-Palacios, Matthias Rös, Víctor Hugo Toledo-Hernández

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    Global climate change is expected to affect temperature and precipitation patterns worldwide, which in turn is likely to affect insect phenology, distribution and diversity. To improve our understanding of such processes, it is important to understand how insects may respond to changes in seasonality, and how these affect their activity, patterns of distribution and species richness. The tropical dry forest (TDF) is a highly seasonal ecosystem, for which two seasons are commonly described (rainy and dry) and there is a lack of information on the combined effect of both precipitation and temperature on the insect communities. In order to evaluate the seasonal patterns in the community of Cerambycidae in a TDF, historical climatic variables were obtained, and an annual sampling of the family was carried out, using three collection techniques. We found that the Cerambycidae family showed a more complex response to climate, than simply the rainy and dry season of the year. The relationship between diversity and composition of cerambycids with changes in temperature and precipitation showed four seasonal communities which were synchronized with phenological processes of the TDF. Climate change could reduce biodiversity, causing seasonal patterns to lose complexity, either because the climatic characteristics of a season disappear and/or because the duration of a season expands, these changes will modify the ecological processes of the TDF, since they would generate changes in the flora and fauna associated with the different seasons.

    Idioma originalInglés
    Número de artículoe7866
    PublicaciónPeerJ
    Volumen2019
    N.º10
    DOI
    EstadoPublicada - 1 ene. 2019

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