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Título : Caught in the web: Spider web architecture affects prey specialization and spider–prey stoichiometric relationships
Autor : Ludwig, Lorraine
Barbour, Matthew A.
Guevara, Jennifer
Avilés, Leticia
González, Angélica L.
Palabras clave : Ecological stoichiometry
Food webs
Nitrogen
Phosphorus
Predator–prey interactions
Spider webs,
Threshold elemental ratio
Fecha de publicación : 2018
Editorial : John Wiley & Sons
Citación : Ludwig, L., Barbour, M. A., Guevara, J., Avilés, L., & González, A. L. (2018). Caught in the web: Spider web architecture affects prey specialization and spider–prey stoichiometric relationships. Ecology and Evolution, 8(13), 6449–6462. doi:10.1002/ece3.4028
Citación : PRODUCCIÓN CIENTÍFICA-ARTÍCULOS;A-IKIAM-000117
Resumen : Quantitative approaches to predator–prey interactions are central to understanding the structure of food webs and their dynamics. Different predatory strategies may influence the occurrence and strength of trophic interactions likely affecting the rates and magnitudes of energy and nutrient transfer between trophic levels and stoichiometry of predator–prey interactions. Here, we used spider–prey interactions as a model system to investigate whether different spider web architectures—orb, tangle, and sheet-tangle—affect the composition and diet breadth of spiders and whether these, in turn, influence stoichiometric relationships between spiders and their prey. Our results showed that web architecture partially affects the richness and composition of the prey captured by spiders. Tangle-web spiders were specialists, capturing a restricted subset of the prey community (primarily Diptera), whereas orb and sheet-tangle web spiders were generalists, capturing a broader range of prey types. We also observed elemental imbalances between spiders and their prey. In general, spiders had higher requirements for both nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) than those provided by their prey even after accounting for prey biomass. Larger P imbalances for tangle-web spiders than for orb and sheet-tangle web spiders suggest that trophic specialization may impose strong elemental constraints for these predators unless they display behavioral or physiological mechanisms to cope with nutrient limitation. Our findings suggest that integrating quantitative analysis of species interactions with elemental stoichiometry can help to better understand the occurrence of stoichiometric imbalances in predator–prey interactions.
URI : http://repositorio.ikiam.edu.ec/jspui/handle/RD_IKIAM/180
https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4028
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