Predation on Live and Artificial Insect Prey Shows Different Global Latitudinal Patterns

Elena L Zvereva; Benjamin Adroit; Tommi Andersson; Craig R  A Barnett; Sofia Branco; Bastien Castagneyrol; Giancarlo Maria Chiarenza; Wesley Dáttilo; Ek del-Val; Jan Filip; Jory Griffith; Anna L Hargreaves; Juan Antonio Hernández-Agüero; Isabelle L  H Silva; Yixuan Hong; Gabriella Kietzka; Petr Klimeš; Max Koistinen; Oksana Y Kruglova; Satu Kumpula; Paula Lopezosa; Marti March-Salas; Robert J Marquis; Yuri M Marusik; Angela T Moles; Anne Muola; Mercy Murkwe; Akihiro Nakamura; Cameron Olson; Emilio Pagani-Núñez; Anna Popova; Olivia Rahn; Alexey Reshchikov; Antonio Rodriguez-Campbell; Seppo Rytkönen; Katerina Sam; Antigoni Sounapoglou; Robert Tropek; Cheng Wenda; Guorui Xu; Yu Zeng; Maxim Zolotarev; Natalia A Zubrii; Vitali Zverev; Mikhail V Kozlov

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Predation on Live and Artificial Insect Prey Shows Different Global Latitudinal Patterns

Elena L Zvereva^*, Benjamin Adroit, Tommi Andersson, Craig R A Barnett, Sofia Branco, Bastien Castagneyrol, Giancarlo Maria Chiarenza, Wesley Dáttilo, Ek del-Val, Jan Filip, Jory Griffith, Anna L Hargreaves, Juan Antonio Hernández-Agüero, Isabelle L H Silva, Yixuan Hong, Gabriella Kietzka, Petr Klimeš, Max Koistinen, Oksana Y Kruglova, Satu KumpulaPaula Lopezosa, Marti March-Salas, Robert J Marquis, Yuri M Marusik, Angela T Moles, Anne Muola, Mercy Murkwe, Akihiro Nakamura, Cameron Olson, Emilio Pagani-Núñez, Anna Popova, Olivia Rahn, Alexey Reshchikov, Antonio Rodriguez-Campbell, Seppo Rytkönen, Katerina Sam, Antigoni Sounapoglou, Robert Tropek, Cheng Wenda, Guorui Xu, Yu Zeng, Maxim Zolotarev, Natalia A Zubrii, Vitali Zverev, Mikhail V Kozlov

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Aim: Long-standing theory predicts that the intensity of biotic interactions increases from high to low latitudes. Studies addressing geographic variation in predation on insect prey have often relied on prey models, which lack many characteristics of live prey. Our goals were to explore global latitudinal patterns of predator attack rates on standardised live insect prey and to compare the patterns in predation on live insects with those on plasticine prey models. Location: Global forested areas. Time Period: 2021–2023. Major Taxa: Arthropods, birds. Methods: We measured predation rates in 43 forested locations distributed across five continents from 34.1° S to 69.5° N latitude. At each location, we exposed 20 sets of three bait types, one set per tree. Each set included three live fly larvae (maggots), three live fly puparia and three plasticine models of the puparia. We used glue rings to isolate half of the sets from non-flying predators. Results: Arthropod attack rates on plasticine prey decreased linearly from low to high latitudes, whereas attack rates on maggots had a U shaped distribution, with the lowest predation rates at temperate latitudes and the highest rates at tropical and boreal latitudes. This difference emerged from intensive predator attacks on live maggots, but not on plasticine models, in boreal sites. Site-specific attack rates of arthropod predators on live and plasticine prey were not correlated. In contrast, bird attack rates on live maggots and plasticine models were positively correlated, but did not show significant latitudinal changes. Main Conclusions: Latitudinal patterns in predation differ between major groups of predators and between types of prey. Poleward decreases in both arthropod and combined arthropod and bird predation on plasticine models do not mirror patterns of predation on our live prey, the latter likely reflecting real patterns of predation risk better than do patterns of attack on artificial prey.

Original language	English
Article number	e13899
Pages (from-to)	1-11
Number of pages	11
Journal	Global Ecology and Biogeography
Volume	33
Issue number	11
Early online date	16 Aug 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13899
Publication status	Published - Nov 2024

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Keywords

ants
arthropod predation
bird predation
forests
latitudinal pattern
live standardised prey
maggots
plasticine prey models
predation risk

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Zvereva, EL., Adroit, B., Andersson, T., Barnett, CR. A., Branco, S., Castagneyrol, B., Chiarenza, GM., Dáttilo, W., del-Val, E., Filip, J., Griffith, J., Hargreaves, AL., Hernández-Agüero, JA., Silva, IL. H., Hong, Y., Kietzka, G., Klimeš, P., Koistinen, M., Kruglova, OY., ... Kozlov, MV. (2024). Predation on Live and Artificial Insect Prey Shows Different Global Latitudinal Patterns. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 33(11), 1-11. Article e13899. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13899

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