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Background invertebrate herbivory on dwarf birch (Betula glandulosa-nana complex) increases with temperature and precipitation across the tundra biome

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Chronic, low intensity herbivory by invertebrates, termed background herbivory, has been understudied in tundra, yet its impacts are likely to increase in a warmer Arctic. The magnitude of these changes is however hard to predict as we know little about the drivers of current levels of invertebrate herbivory in tundra. We assessed the intensity of invertebrate herbivory on a common tundra plant, the dwarf birch (Betula glandulosa-nana complex), and investigated its relationship to latitude and climate across the tundra biome. Leaf damage by defoliating, mining and gall-forming invertebrates was measured in samples collected from 192 sites at 56 locations. Our results indicate that invertebrate herbivory is nearly ubiquitous across the tundra biome but occurs at low intensity. On average, invertebrates damaged 11.2% of the leaves and removed 1.4% of total leaf area. The damage was mainly caused by external leaf feeders, and most damaged leaves were only slightly affected (12% leaf area lost). Foliar damage was consistently positively correlated with mid-summer (July) temperature and, to a lesser extent, precipitation in the year of data collection, irrespective of latitude. Our models predict that, on average, foliar losses to invertebrates on dwarf birch are likely to increase by 6–7% over the current levels with a 1 °C increase in summer temperatures. Our results show that invertebrate herbivory on dwarf birch is small in magnitude but given its prevalence and dependence on climatic variables, background invertebrate herbivory should be included in predictions of climate change impacts on tundra ecosystems.

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  • 12 March 2018

    The above mentioned article was originally scheduled for publication in the special issue on Ecology of Tundra Arthropods with guest editors Toke T. Høye . Lauren E. Culler. Erroneously, the article was published in Polar Biology, Volume 40, Issue 11, November, 2017. The publisher sincerely apologizes to the guest editors and the authors for the inconvenience caused.

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Acknowledgements

This study is a joint contribution of the Herbivory Network (http://herbivory.biology.ualberta.ca) and the Network for Arthropods of the Tundra (NeAT; https://tundraarthropods.wordpress.com/). Dwarf birch distribution maps were kindly provided by Kyle Joly. Sample collection during 2014 was facilitated by INTERACT (http://www.eu-interact.org/). ICB was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Icelandic Research Fund (Rannsóknasjóður, grant nr 152468-051) and AXA Research Fund (15-AXA-PDOC-307); MtB and EK were supported by the Nordic Centre of Excellence TUNDRA, funded by the Norden Top-Level Research Initiative ‘‘Effect Studies and Adaptation to Climate Change’’; EMS and KAB were supported by COAT (Climate-ecological Observatory of the Arctic Tundra); AB was supported by MOBILITY PLUS (1072/MOB/2013/0) and the Polish-American Fulbright Commission; CGB was supported by IUT 20-28, EcolChang e Center of Excellence; BCF and TK were supported by the Academy of Finland (project 256991); MMPDH was supported by The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO-ALW, VIDI grant 864.09.014); DSH was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; AH was supported by the Research Council of Norway (grant 244557/E50); JL was funded by the German Research Foundation DFG (project WI 2680/8-1); MM-F was supported by a NERC IRF fellowship NE/L011859/1; SN was supported by the Villum foundation’s Young Investigator Programme (VKR023456); JS was supported by Kempestiftelserna and the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO); AS and NS were supported by the grant of RFBR (project 16-44-890108), grant of UB of RAS (project 15-15-4-35) and IEC “Arctic” of Yamal Government Department of Science and Innovation; LES and PAW were supported by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) grant NE/K000284/1; MVK and VZ were supported by the Academy of Finland (project 276671).

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  1. Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland, Sturlugata 7, 101, Reykjavík, Iceland

    Isabel C. Barrio & Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir

  2. Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, 901 87, Umeå, Sweden

    Elin Lindén, Mariska Te Beest, Johan Olofsson, Dagmar Egelkraut, Elina Kaarlejärvi, Judith Sitters & Maja K. Sundqvist

  3. Department of Biological Sciences and the Environmental Change Initiative, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA

    Adrian Rocha

  4. Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, 9037, Tromsø, Norway

    Eeva M. Soininen, Kari Anne Bråthen & Dorothee Ehrich

  5. Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

    Juha M. Alatalo

  6. Biodiversity Unit, Kevo Subarctic Research Institute, University of Turku, 20014, Turku, Finland

    Tommi Andersson & Otso Suominen

  7. Department of Biology, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlingon, TX, USA

    Ashley Asmus

  8. Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Telegrafenberg A43, 14473, Potsdam, Germany

    Julia Boike & Heike H. Zimmermann

  9. Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 997775-7000, Fairbanks, AK, USA

    John P. Bryant

  10. Institute of Geoecology and Geoinformation, Adam Mickiewicz University, Dziegielowa 21, 61-680, Poznan, Poland

    Agata Buchwal

  11. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alaska Anchorage, 3151 Alumni Loop, 99508, Anchorage, AK, USA

    Agata Buchwal

  12. Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, Department of Botany, University of Tartu, Lai 40, Tartu, 51005, Estonia

    C. Guillermo Bueno

  13. Science Department, Alaska SeaLife Center, 301 Railway Ave., 99664, Seward, AK, USA

    Katherine S. Christie

  14. Nenets Agrarian-Economic Technical School, Studencheskaya 1, 166000, Naryan-Mar, Russia

    Yulia V. Denisova

  15. Churchill Northern Studies Centre, PO Box 610, R0B 0E0, Churchill, MB, Canada

    LeeAnn Fishback

  16. Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Box 122, 96101, Rovaniemi, Finland

    Bruce C. Forbes

  17. Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (CSIC), Avda. Nuestra Señora de la Victoria s/n, 22700, Jaca, Spain

    Maite Gartzia

  18. Department of Biology, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada

    Paul Grogan

  19. Swedish Agricultural University, Ullsväg 16, 75651, Uppsala, Sweden

    Martin Hallinger

  20. Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University & Research, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Monique M. P. D. Heijmans & Juul Limpens

  21. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T5N 0R5, Canada

    David S. Hik

  22. Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, 7485, Trondheim, Norway

    Annika Hofgaard

  23. Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University & Research, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Milena Holmgren

  24. Arctic Research Centre and Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Grenåvej 14, 8410, Rønde, Denmark

    Toke T. Høye

  25. Department of Biology & Wildlife, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 982 N Koyukuk Drive, 101 Murie, 99775-6100, Fairbanks, USA

    Diane C. Huebner

  26. University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), Longyearbyen, 9171, Norway

    Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir

  27. Department of Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Elina Kaarlejärvi & Judith Sitters

  28. Department of Geographical and Historical Studies, University of Eastern Finland, 80101, Joensuu, Finland

    Timo Kumpula

  29. Department of Animal Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Cynthia Y. M. J. G. Lange

  30. Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University Greifswald, 17487, Greifswald, Germany

    Jelena Lange & Martin Wilmking

  31. Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières and Centre d‘études nordiques, Trois-Rivières, QC, G9A 5H7, Canada

    Esther Lévesque

  32. School of Geography & the Environment, University of Oxford, OX1 3QY, Oxford, UK

    Marc Macias-Fauria

  33. School of GeoSciences, King’s Buildings, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FF, UK

    Isla Myers-Smith

  34. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, PO Box 9517, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Erik J. van Nieukerken

  35. Section for Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 114, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark

    Signe Normand

  36. Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA

    Eric S. Post

  37. Arctic Research Centre, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Niels Martin Schmidt

  38. Population Ecology Lab, Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Umultowska 89, 61–614, Poznań, Poland

    Anna Skoracka

  39. Arctic Research Station, Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Zelenaya Gorka Str., 21, 629400, Labytnangi, Russia

    Alexander Sokolov & Natalya Sokolova

  40. Arctic Research Center of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, Salekhard, Russia

    Alexander Sokolov & Natalya Sokolova

  41. Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491, Trondheim, Norway

    James D. M. Speed & Philip A. Wookey

  42. Environmental Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK

    Lorna E. Street

  43. The Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, The Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, 2100, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark

    Maja K. Sundqvist

  44. Melnikov Permafrost Institute, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, Russia

    Nikita Tananaev

  45. Department of Biology, Centre for Nordic Studies and Centre for Forest Research, Université Laval, G1V 0A6, Québec, QC, Canada

    Jean-Pierre Tremblay

  46. Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA

    Christine Urbanowicz

  47. Nenets Museum of Local History, Pobedy 5, 166000, Naryan-Mar, Russia

    Sergey A. Uvarov

  48. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA

    David Watts

  49. Section of Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Turku, 20014, Turku, Finland

    Vitali Zverev & Mikhail V. Kozlov

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This article belongs to the special issue on the “Ecology of tundra arthropods”, coordinated by Toke T. Høye and Lauren E. Culler.

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Barrio, I.C., Lindén, E., Te Beest, M. et al. Background invertebrate herbivory on dwarf birch (Betula glandulosa-nana complex) increases with temperature and precipitation across the tundra biome. Polar Biol 40, 2265–2278 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-017-2139-7

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