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

doi:10.1038/s41598-023-36795-w

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 CorleyDavid 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

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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.

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Article number	11570
Journal	Scientific Reports
Volume	13
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Franić, I., Allan, E., Prospero, S., Adamson, K., Attorre, F., Auger-Rozenberg, M. A., Augustin, S., Avtzis, D., Baert, W., Barta, M., Bauters, K., Bellahirech, A., Boroń, P., Bragança, H., Brestovanská, T., Brurberg, M. B., Burgess, T., Burokienė, D., Cleary, M., ... Eschen, R. (2023). Climate, host and geography shape insect and fungal communities of trees. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 11570. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-36795-w

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AU - Auger-Rozenberg, Marie Anne

AU - Augustin, Sylvie

AU - Avtzis, Dimitrios

AU - Baert, Wim

AU - Barta, Marek

AU - Bauters, Kenneth

AU - Bellahirech, Amani

AU - Boroń, Piotr

AU - Bragança, Helena

AU - Brestovanská, Tereza

AU - Brurberg, May Bente

AU - Burgess, Treena

AU - Burokienė, Daiva

AU - Cleary, Michelle

AU - Corley, Juan

AU - Coyle, David R.

AU - Csóka, György

AU - Černý, Karel

AU - Davydenko, Kateryna

AU - de Groot, Maarten

AU - Diez, Julio Javier

AU - Doğmuş Lehtijärvi, H. Tugba

AU - Drenkhan, Rein

AU - Edwards, Jacqueline

AU - Elsafy, Mohammed

AU - Eötvös, Csaba Béla

AU - Falko, Roman

AU - Fan, Jianting

AU - Feddern, Nina

AU - Fürjes-Mikó, Ágnes

AU - Gossner, Martin M.

AU - Grad, Bartłomiej

AU - Hartmann, Martin

AU - Havrdova, Ludmila

AU - Kádasi Horáková, Miriam

AU - Hrabětová, Markéta

AU - Justesen, Mathias Just

AU - Kacprzyk, Magdalena

AU - Kenis, Marc

AU - Kirichenko, Natalia

AU - Kovač, Marta

AU - Kramarets, Volodymyr

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AU - Lantschner, Maria Victoria

AU - Lazarević, Jelena

AU - Leskiv, Marianna

AU - Li, Hongmei

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AU - Malumphy, Chris

AU - Matošević, Dinka

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AU - May, Tom W.

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AU - Nikolov, Christo

AU - O’Hanlon, Richard

AU - Oskay, Funda

AU - Paap, Trudy

AU - Parpan, Taras

AU - Piškur, Barbara

AU - Ravn, Hans Peter

AU - Richard, John

AU - Ronse, Anne

AU - Roques, Alain

AU - Ruffner, Beat

AU - Santini, Alberto

AU - Sivickis, Karolis

AU - Soliani, Carolina

AU - Talgø, Venche

AU - Tomoshevich, Maria

AU - Uimari, Anne

AU - Ulyshen, Michael

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AU - Zlatković, Milica

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N1 - Funding Information: We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Swiss National Science Foundation (Project C15.0081) Grant 174644 and the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment Grant 00.0418.PZ/P193-1077. This work was supported by COST Action “Global Warning” (FP1401). CABI is an international intergovernmental organisation, and R.E., M.K., H.L. and I.F. gratefully acknowledge the core financial support from our member countries (and lead agencies) including the United Kingdom (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office), China (Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs), Australia (Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research), Canada (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada), Netherlands (Directorate General for International Cooperation), and Switzerland (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation). See https://www.cabi.org/aboutcabi/who-we-work-with/key-donors/ for full details. M.B. and M.K.H. were financially supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency (Project APVV-19-0116). H.B. would like to thank the botanist Jorge Capelo who helped with Myrtaceae identification and INIAV IP for supporting her contribution to this study. Contributions of M. de G. and B.P. were financed through Slovenian Research Agency (P4-0107) and by the Slovenian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food (Public Forestry Service). G.C, C.B.E. and A.F.M. were supported by OTKA 128008 research grant provided by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office. Contributions of K.A. and R.D. were supported by the Estonian Research Council grants PSG136 and PRG1615. M.J.J., C.L.M. and H.P.R. were financially supported by the 15. Juni Fonden (Grant 2017-N-123). P.B., B.G. and M.Ka. were financially supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland for the University of Agriculture in Krakow (SUB/040013-D019). C.N. was financially supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency (Grant APVV-15-0531). N.K. was partially supported by the Russian Science Foundation (grant № 22-16-00075) [species identification] and the basic project of Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS (№ FWES-2021-0011) [data analysis]. R.OH. was supported by funding from DAERA, and assistance from David Craig, AFBI. T.P. thanks the South African Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) for funding noting that this publication does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of DFFE or its employees. In preparing the publication, materials of the bioresource scientific collection of the CSBG SB RAS “Collections of living plants indoors and outdoors” USU_440534 (Novosibirsk, Russia) were used. M.Z. was financially supported by Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia (contract no. 451-03-47/2023-01/200197). We acknowledge the Genetic Diversity Centre (GDC) at ETH Zurich for providing computational infrastructure and acknowledge the contribution of McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Center (Montréal, Quebec, Canada) for pair-end sequencing on Illumina MiSeq. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Funding Information: We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Swiss National Science Foundation (Project C15.0081) Grant 174644 and the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment Grant 00.0418.PZ/P193-1077. This work was supported by COST Action “Global Warning” (FP1401). CABI is an international intergovernmental organisation, and R.E., M.K., H.L. and I.F. gratefully acknowledge the core financial support from our member countries (and lead agencies) including the United Kingdom (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office), China (Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs), Australia (Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research), Canada (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada), Netherlands (Directorate General for International Cooperation), and Switzerland (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation). See https://www.cabi.org/aboutcabi/who-we-work-with/key-donors/ for full details. M.B. and M.K.H. were financially supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency (Project APVV-19-0116). H.B. would like to thank the botanist Jorge Capelo who helped with Myrtaceae identification and INIAV IP for supporting her contribution to this study. Contributions of M. de G. and B.P. were financed through Slovenian Research Agency (P4-0107) and by the Slovenian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food (Public Forestry Service). G.C, C.B.E. and A.F.M. were supported by OTKA 128008 research grant provided by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office. Contributions of K.A. and R.D. were supported by the Estonian Research Council grants PSG136 and PRG1615. M.J.J., C.L.M. and H.P.R. were financially supported by the 15. Juni Fonden (Grant 2017-N-123). P.B., B.G. and M.Ka. were financially supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland for the University of Agriculture in Krakow (SUB/040013-D019). C.N. was financially supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency (Grant APVV-15-0531). N.K. was partially supported by the Russian Science Foundation (grant № 22-16-00075) [species identification] and the basic project of Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS (№ FWES-2021-0011) [data analysis]. R.OH. was supported by funding from DAERA, and assistance from David Craig, AFBI. T.P. thanks the South African Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) for funding noting that this publication does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of DFFE or its employees. In preparing the publication, materials of the bioresource scientific collection of the CSBG SB RAS “Collections of living plants indoors and outdoors” USU_440534 (Novosibirsk, Russia) were used. M.Z. was financially supported by Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia (contract no. 451-03-47/2023-01/200197). We acknowledge the Genetic Diversity Centre (GDC) at ETH Zurich for providing computational infrastructure and acknowledge the contribution of McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Center (Montréal, Quebec, Canada) for pair-end sequencing on Illumina MiSeq. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Publisher Copyright: © 2023, The Author(s).

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N2 - 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.

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