Scientific Reports (Jul 2023)
Climate, host and geography shape insect and fungal communities of trees
- Iva Franić,
- Eric Allan,
- Simone Prospero,
- Kalev Adamson,
- Fabio Attorre,
- Marie-Anne Auger-Rozenberg,
- Sylvie Augustin,
- Dimitrios Avtzis,
- Wim Baert,
- Marek Barta,
- Kenneth Bauters,
- Amani Bellahirech,
- Piotr Boroń,
- Helena Bragança,
- Tereza Brestovanská,
- May Bente Brurberg,
- Treena Burgess,
- Daiva Burokienė,
- Michelle Cleary,
- Juan Corley,
- David R. Coyle,
- György Csóka,
- Karel Černý,
- Kateryna Davydenko,
- Maarten de Groot,
- Julio Javier Diez,
- H. Tugba Doğmuş Lehtijärvi,
- Rein Drenkhan,
- Jacqueline Edwards,
- Mohammed Elsafy,
- Csaba Béla Eötvös,
- Roman Falko,
- Jianting Fan,
- Nina Feddern,
- Ágnes Fürjes-Mikó,
- Martin M. Gossner,
- Bartłomiej Grad,
- Martin Hartmann,
- Ludmila Havrdova,
- Miriam Kádasi Horáková,
- Markéta Hrabětová,
- Mathias Just Justesen,
- Magdalena Kacprzyk,
- Marc Kenis,
- Natalia Kirichenko,
- Marta Kovač,
- Volodymyr Kramarets,
- Nikola Lacković,
- Maria Victoria Lantschner,
- Jelena Lazarević,
- Marianna Leskiv,
- Hongmei Li,
- Corrie Lynne Madsen,
- Chris Malumphy,
- Dinka Matošević,
- Iryna Matsiakh,
- Tom W. May,
- Johan Meffert,
- Duccio Migliorini,
- Christo Nikolov,
- Richard O’Hanlon,
- Funda Oskay,
- Trudy Paap,
- Taras Parpan,
- Barbara Piškur,
- Hans Peter Ravn,
- John Richard,
- Anne Ronse,
- Alain Roques,
- Beat Ruffner,
- Alberto Santini,
- Karolis Sivickis,
- Carolina Soliani,
- Venche Talgø,
- Maria Tomoshevich,
- Anne Uimari,
- Michael Ulyshen,
- Anna Maria Vettraino,
- Caterina Villari,
- Yongjun Wang,
- Johanna Witzell,
- Milica Zlatković,
- René Eschen
Affiliations
- Iva Franić
- CABI
- Eric Allan
- Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern
- Simone Prospero
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
- Kalev Adamson
- Institute of Forestry and Engineering, Estonian University of Life Sciences
- Fabio Attorre
- Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome
- Marie-Anne Auger-Rozenberg
- INRAE, URZF
- Sylvie Augustin
- INRAE, URZF
- Dimitrios Avtzis
- Forest Research Institute, Hellenic Agricultural Organization-Demeter
- Wim Baert
- Meise Botanic Garden
- Marek Barta
- Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
- Kenneth Bauters
- Meise Botanic Garden
- Amani Bellahirech
- National Research Institute of Rural Engineering, Water and Forests (INRGREF)
- Piotr Boroń
- Department of Forest Ecosystems Protection, University of Agriculture in Krakow
- Helena Bragança
- Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária I. P. (INIAV I. P.)
- Tereza Brestovanská
- Silva Tarouca Research Institute for Landscape and Ornamental Gardening
- May Bente Brurberg
- NIBIO, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research
- Treena Burgess
- Murdoch University
- Daiva Burokienė
- Institute of Botany at the Nature Research Centre
- Michelle Cleary
- Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Juan Corley
- Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche (INTA-CONICET)
- David R. Coyle
- Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation, Clemson University
- György Csóka
- Department of Forest Protection, Forest Research Institute, University of Sopron
- Karel Černý
- Silva Tarouca Research Institute for Landscape and Ornamental Gardening
- Kateryna Davydenko
- Ukrainian Research Institute of Forestry and Forest Melioration
- Maarten de Groot
- Slovenian Forestry Institute
- Julio Javier Diez
- Sustainable Forest Management Research Institute, University of Valladolid-INIA
- H. Tugba Doğmuş Lehtijärvi
- Isparta University of Applied Sciences
- Rein Drenkhan
- Institute of Forestry and Engineering, Estonian University of Life Sciences
- Jacqueline Edwards
- School of Applied Systems Biology, La Trobe University
- Mohammed Elsafy
- Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Csaba Béla Eötvös
- Department of Forest Protection, Forest Research Institute, University of Sopron
- Roman Falko
- Ukrainian Research Institute of Mountain Forestry
- Jianting Fan
- College of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A & F University
- Nina Feddern
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
- Ágnes Fürjes-Mikó
- Department of Forest Protection, Forest Research Institute, University of Sopron
- Martin M. Gossner
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
- Bartłomiej Grad
- Department of Forest Ecosystems Protection, University of Agriculture in Krakow
- Martin Hartmann
- Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zürich
- Ludmila Havrdova
- Silva Tarouca Research Institute for Landscape and Ornamental Gardening
- Miriam Kádasi Horáková
- Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
- Markéta Hrabětová
- Silva Tarouca Research Institute for Landscape and Ornamental Gardening
- Mathias Just Justesen
- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen
- Magdalena Kacprzyk
- Department of Forest Ecosystems Protection, University of Agriculture in Krakow
- Marc Kenis
- CABI
- Natalia Kirichenko
- Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Research Center “Krasnoyarsk Science Center SB RAS”
- Marta Kovač
- Croatian Forest Research Institute
- Volodymyr Kramarets
- Ukrainian National Forestry University
- Nikola Lacković
- Maria Victoria Lantschner
- Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche (INTA-CONICET)
- Jelena Lazarević
- Biotechnical Faculty, University of Montenegro
- Marianna Leskiv
- Ukrainian National Forestry University
- Hongmei Li
- CABI
- Corrie Lynne Madsen
- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen
- Chris Malumphy
- Fera Science Ltd, National Agri‐food Innovation Campus
- Dinka Matošević
- Croatian Forest Research Institute
- Iryna Matsiakh
- Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Tom W. May
- Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
- Johan Meffert
- National Plant Protection Organisation, Netherlands Food and Consumers Product Safety Authority, Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality
- Duccio Migliorini
- National Research Council C.N.R., Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (IPSP)
- Christo Nikolov
- National Forest Centre, Forest Research Institute
- Richard O’Hanlon
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Funda Oskay
- Faculty of Forestry, Çankırı Karatekin University
- Trudy Paap
- Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria
- Taras Parpan
- Ukrainian Research Institute of Mountain Forestry
- Barbara Piškur
- Slovenian Forestry Institute
- Hans Peter Ravn
- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen
- John Richard
- Tanzania Forestry Research Institute (TAFORI)
- Anne Ronse
- Meise Botanic Garden
- Alain Roques
- INRAE, URZF
- Beat Ruffner
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
- Alberto Santini
- National Research Council C.N.R., Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (IPSP)
- Karolis Sivickis
- Institute of Botany at the Nature Research Centre
- Carolina Soliani
- Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche (INTA-CONICET)
- Venche Talgø
- NIBIO, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research
- Maria Tomoshevich
- Central Siberian Botanical Garden, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch
- Anne Uimari
- Natural Resources Institute Finland
- Michael Ulyshen
- USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station
- Anna Maria Vettraino
- DIBAF, University of Tuscia
- Caterina Villari
- D.B. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia
- Yongjun Wang
- College of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A & F University
- Johanna Witzell
- Forestry and Wood Technology, Linnaeus University
- Milica Zlatković
- Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment (ILFE), University of Novi Sad
- René Eschen
- CABI
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-36795-w
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 13
Abstract
Abstract Non-native pests, climate change, and their interactions are likely to alter relationships between trees and tree-associated organisms with consequences for forest health. To understand and predict such changes, factors structuring tree-associated communities need to be determined. Here, we analysed the data consisting of records of insects and fungi collected from dormant twigs from 155 tree species at 51 botanical gardens or arboreta in 32 countries. Generalized dissimilarity models revealed similar relative importance of studied climatic, host-related and geographic factors on differences in tree-associated communities. Mean annual temperature, phylogenetic distance between hosts and geographic distance between locations were the major drivers of dissimilarities. The increasing importance of high temperatures on differences in studied communities indicate that climate change could affect tree-associated organisms directly and indirectly through host range shifts. Insect and fungal communities were more similar between closely related vs. distant hosts suggesting that host range shifts may facilitate the emergence of new pests. Moreover, dissimilarities among tree-associated communities increased with geographic distance indicating that human-mediated transport may serve as a pathway of the introductions of new pests. The results of this study highlight the need to limit the establishment of tree pests and increase the resilience of forest ecosystems to changes in climate.
