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Local temperatures inferred from plant communities suggest strong spatial buffering of climate warming across Northern Europe 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Jonathan Lenoir Bente Jessen Graae Per Arild Aarrestad Inger Greve Alsos W. Scott Armbruster Gunnar Austrheim Claes Bergendorff H. John B. Birks Kari Anne Bråthen Jörg Brunet Hans Henrik Bruun Carl Johan Dahlberg Guillaume Decocq Martin Diekmann Mats Dynesius Rasmus Ejrnæs John‐Arvid Grytnes Kristoffer Hylander Kari Klanderud Miska Luoto Ann Milbau Mari Moora Bettina Nygaard Arvid Odland Virve Tuulia Ravolainen Stefanie Reinhardt Sylvi Marlen Sandvik Fride Høistad Schei James David Mervyn Speed Liv Unn Tveraabak Vigdis Vandvik Liv Guri Velle Risto Virtanen Martin Zobel Jens‐Christian Svenning 《Global Change Biology》2013,19(5):1470-1481
Recent studies from mountainous areas of small spatial extent (<2500 km2) suggest that fine‐grained thermal variability over tens or hundreds of metres exceeds much of the climate warming expected for the coming decades. Such variability in temperature provides buffering to mitigate climate‐change impacts. Is this local spatial buffering restricted to topographically complex terrains? To answer this, we here study fine‐grained thermal variability across a 2500‐km wide latitudinal gradient in Northern Europe encompassing a large array of topographic complexities. We first combined plant community data, Ellenberg temperature indicator values, locally measured temperatures (LmT) and globally interpolated temperatures (GiT) in a modelling framework to infer biologically relevant temperature conditions from plant assemblages within <1000‐m2 units (community‐inferred temperatures: CiT). We then assessed: (1) CiT range (thermal variability) within 1‐km2 units; (2) the relationship between CiT range and topographically and geographically derived predictors at 1‐km resolution; and (3) whether spatial turnover in CiT is greater than spatial turnover in GiT within 100‐km2 units. Ellenberg temperature indicator values in combination with plant assemblages explained 46–72% of variation in LmT and 92–96% of variation in GiT during the growing season (June, July, August). Growing‐season CiT range within 1‐km2 units peaked at 60–65°N and increased with terrain roughness, averaging 1.97 °C (SD = 0.84 °C) and 2.68 °C (SD = 1.26 °C) within the flattest and roughest units respectively. Complex interactions between topography‐related variables and latitude explained 35% of variation in growing‐season CiT range when accounting for sampling effort and residual spatial autocorrelation. Spatial turnover in growing‐season CiT within 100‐km2 units was, on average, 1.8 times greater (0.32 °C km?1) than spatial turnover in growing‐season GiT (0.18 °C km?1). We conclude that thermal variability within 1‐km2 units strongly increases local spatial buffering of future climate warming across Northern Europe, even in the flattest terrains. 相似文献
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Unn Gehrken 《Journal of insect physiology》1985,31(12):909-916
The ovarioles of the bark beetle, Ips acuminatus are telotrophic. Ovarian development is suppressed at an immature stage with primary germ cells present in the germaria. Lower oxygen consumption is found in beetles during autumn and early winter, and a substantial rise in mean respiration rates occurs in the beginning of January paralleled by a resumption of pre-vitellogenesis in all females maintained either at 3°C or out of doors after return to 21°C for 2 weeks. It is concluded that I. acuminatus enters faculative diapause soon after enclosure to the adult, and that diapause is terminated by mid-winter in beetles kept for 18 weeks at either 3°C or out of doors. The specimens remain thereafter in reproductive quiescence until ovarian development can proceed.Photic cues are neither involved in the elevation of mean respiration rates, nor needed to abolish the inhibition of ovarian maturation in beetles kept at 3°C or in those returned to 21°C. However, follicle formation in ovarioles is only seen in positive phototactic females reared during “long-day” conditions, suggesting a photoperiodic regulation of the later stages of vitellogenesis.Detectable amounts of ethylene glycol are found at the beginning of November in freezing-susceptible I. acuminatus hibernating in its galleries underneath bark of Scots pine (Pinus silvestris) at 3°C. The gradual catabolism of the cryoprotective solute at 3°C through December occurred at a time when individuals achieved the competence to resume ovarian maturation during 2 weeks at 21°C, but prior to the substantial rise in their mean respiration rates. However, resumption of ovarian development in spring had no effect on the capability of outdoor beetles to enhance their supercooling capacity when subjected to sub-zero temperatures. Since the ability to respond to temperature changes occurred in post-diapause I. acuminatus as well, the maintenance of prolonged cold hardiness in specimens could not be related to diapause itself. Apparently, the ability of beetles to resynthesize ethylene glycol when a detectable level is present in the organism remains unaltered during overwintering. 相似文献
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We studied the degree of dietary specialisation of bat-eared foxes (Otocyon megalotis) by analysing 177 scats collected on a game ranch in central South Africa. Bat-eared foxes generally are considered to be insectivorous with a distinct specialisation on termites, however, our results indicated a much broader and opportunistic diet. Termites were detected in more than 90% of the scats throughout the year, but they only contributed 12–40% to the ingested biomass across seasons. Instead, fruits, primarily bluebush (Diospyros lycioides), were the most important food category in summer (63% biomass) as well as in autumn (74% biomass). Also, high niche breadth values (B = 5.7–6.9 for frequency of occurrence, B = 1.8–4.1 for biomass data) indicated a rather generalistic feeding behaviour. We also documented numerous cases of opportunistic scavenging on carcasses by bat-eared foxes. The difference with earlier dietary studies of bat-eared foxes might be attributable to geographical and ecological variations among sites and also partly to methodological differences. Concerning the latter, no previous studies considered biomass calculations but instead most assessed the frequency of occurrence of prey items, which likely overestimated the importance of small prey such as termites. 相似文献
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Ko MS Lee UH Kim SI Kim HJ Park JJ Cha SJ Kim SB Song H Chung DK Han IS Kwack K Park JW 《Archives of biochemistry and biophysics》2004,422(2):137-144
Developmentally regulated GTP-binding protein (DRG) is a new subfamily within the superfamily of GTP-binding proteins. Its expression is regulated during embryonic development. To investigate the effect of the expression of DRG2 on cell growth, we constructed a human Jurkat-T-cell line that overexpresses DRG2. Overexpression of DRG2 suppressed the growth and the aggregation of Jurkat cells but did not induce apoptotic cell death. We used cDNA microarray analysis to examine the global changes in gene expression induced by an overexpression of DRG2. DNA array analyses identified genes that may suppress cell growth at a number of levels in multiple signaling cascades in Jurkat cells and also several prosurvival genes that may protect cells from apoptosis. 相似文献
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Cell surface orifices of caveolae and localization of caveolin to the necks of caveolae in adipocytes
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Thorn H Stenkula KG Karlsson M Ortegren U Nystrom FH Gustavsson J Stralfors P 《Molecular biology of the cell》2003,14(10):3967-3976
Caveolae are noncoated invaginations of the plasma membrane that form in the presence of the protein caveolin. Caveolae are found in most cells, but are especially abundant in adipocytes. By high-resolution electron microscopy of plasma membrane sheets the detailed structure of individual caveolae of primary rat adipocytes was examined. Caveolin-1 and -2 binding was restricted to the membrane proximal region, such as the ducts or necks attaching the caveolar bulb to the membrane. This was confirmed by transfection with myc-tagged caveolin-1 and -2. Essentially the same results were obtained with human fibroblasts. Hence caveolin does not form the caveolar bulb in these cells, but rather the neck and may thus act to retain the caveolar constituents, indicating how caveolin participates in the formation of caveolae. Caveolae, randomly distributed over the plasma membrane, were very heterogeneous, varying in size between 25 and 150 nm. There was about one million caveolae in an adipocyte, which increased the surface area of the plasma membrane by 50%. Half of the caveolae, those larger than 50 nm, had access to the outside of the cell via ducts and 20-nm orifices at the cell surface. The rest of the caveolae, those smaller than 50 nm, were not open to the cell exterior. Cholesterol depletion destroyed both caveolae and the cell surface orifices. 相似文献
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Background
The insulin receptor is localized in caveolae and is dependent on caveolae or cholesterol for signaling in adipocytes. When stimulated with insulin, the receptor is internalized.Methodology/Principal Findings
We examined primary rat adipocytes by subcellular fractionation to examine if the insulin receptor was internalized in a caveolae-mediated process. Insulin induced a rapid, t1/2<3 min, endocytosis of the insulin receptor in parallel with receptor tyrosine autophosphorylation. Concomitantly, caveolin-1 was phosphorylated at tyrosine(14) and endocytosed. Vanadate increased the phosphorylation of caveolin-1 without affecting insulin receptor phosphorylation or endocytosis. Immunocapture of endosomal vesicles with antibodies against the insulin receptor co-captured caveolin-1 and immunocapture with antibodies against tyrosine(14)-phosphorylated caveolin-1 co-captured the insulin receptor, demonstrating that the insulin receptor was endocytosed together with tyrosine(14)-phosphorylated caveolin-1. By immunogold electron microscopy the insulin receptor and caveolin-1 were colocalized in endosome vesicles that resembled caveosomes. Clathrin was not endocytosed with the insulin receptor and the inhibitor of clathrin-coated pit-mediated endocytosis, chlorpromazine, did not inhibit internalization of the insulin receptor, while transferrin receptor internalization was inhibited.Conclusion
It is concluded that in response to insulin stimulation the autophosphorylated insulin receptor in primary adipocytes is rapidly endocytosed in a caveolae-mediated process, involving tyrosine phosphorylation of caveolin-1. 相似文献7.
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The regional species richness and genetic diversity of Arctic vegetation reflect both past glaciations and current climate
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Lærke Stewart Inger G. Alsos Christian Bay Amy L. Breen Christian Brochmann Noémie Boulanger‐Lapointe Olivier Broennimann Helga Bültmann Peder Klith Bøcher Christian Damgaard Fred J. A. Daniëls Dorothee Ehrich Pernille Bronken Eidesen Antoine Guisan Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir Jonathan Lenoir Peter C. le Roux Esther Lévesque Miska Luoto Jacob Nabe‐Nielsen Peter Schönswetter Andreas Tribsch Liv Unn Tveraabak Risto Virtanen Donald A. Walker Kristine B. Westergaard Nigel G. Yoccoz Loïc Pellissier 《Global Ecology and Biogeography》2016,25(4):430-442
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Jee Youn Hwang Unn Hwa Lee Min Jin Heo Min Sun Kim Ji Min Jeong So Yeon Kim Mun Gyeong Kwon Bo Young Jee Ki Hong Kim Chan-Il Park Jeong Woo Park 《PLoS pathogens》2021,17(1)
Viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (VHSV) is a rhabdovirus that causes high mortality in cultured flounder. Naturally occurring VHSV strains vary greatly in virulence. Until now, little has been known about genetic alterations that affect the virulence of VHSV in flounder. We recently reported the full-genome sequences of 18 VHSV strains. In this study, we determined the virulence of these 18 VHSV strains in flounder and then the assessed relationships between differences in the amino acid sequences of the 18 VHSV strains and their virulence to flounder. We identified one amino acid substitution in the phosphoprotein (P) (Pro55-to-Leu substitution in the P protein; PP55L) that is specific to highly virulent strains. This PP55L substitution was maintained stably after 30 cell passages. To investigate the effects of the PP55L substitution on VHSV virulence in flounder, we generated a recombinant VHSV carrying PP55L (rVHSV-P) from rVHSV carrying P55 in the P protein (rVHSV-wild). The rVHSV-P produced high level of viral RNA in cells and showed increased growth in cultured cells and virulence in flounder compared to the rVHSV-wild. In addition, rVHSV-P significantly inhibited the induction of the IFN1 gene in both cells and fish at 6 h post-infection. An RNA-seq analysis confirmed that rVHSV-P infection blocked the induction of several IFN-related genes in virus-infected cells at 6 h post-infection compared to rVHSV-wild. Ectopic expression of PP55L protein resulted in a decrease in IFN induction and an increase in viral RNA synthesis in rVHSV-wild-infected cells. Taken together, our results are the first to identify that the P55L substitution in the P protein enhances VHSV virulence in flounder. The data from this study add to the knowledge of VHSV virulence in flounder and could benefit VHSV surveillance efforts and the generation of a VHSV vaccine. 相似文献