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- Title
Day-to-day variations in the amplitude of the soil temperature cycle and impact on adult eclosion timing of the onion fly.
- Authors
Tanaka, Kazuhiro; Watari, Yasuhiko
- Abstract
The onion fly Delia antiqua advances its eclosion timing with decreasing temperature amplitude to compensate for a depth-dependent phase delay of the zeitgeber. To elucidate whether or not naturally occurring day-to-day variations in the amplitude of soil temperature cycle disturb this compensatory response, we monitored daily variations in the temperature amplitude in natural soils and evaluated the impact on adult eclosion timing. Our results indicated that both median and variance of the soil temperature amplitude become smaller as depth increases. Insertion of a larger temperature fluctuation into the thermoperiod with smaller temperature amplitude induced a stronger phase delay, while insertion of a smaller temperature fluctuation into the thermoperiod with larger temperature amplitude had a weaker phase-advancing effect. It is therefore expected that larger diurnal temperature fluctuations disturb the compensatory response, particularly if they occur at deeper locations, while smaller temperature fluctuations do so only at shallower locations. Under natural conditions, however, the probability of occurrence of smaller or larger temperature fluctuations in shallower or deeper soils, respectively, is relatively small. Thus, naturally occurring day-to-day variations in the temperature amplitude rarely disturb the compensatory response, thereby having a subtle or negligible impact on adult eclosion timing.
- Subjects
FLIES; SOIL temperature; SOIL physics; METEOROLOGY; ISOTHERMAL processes
- Publication
International Journal of Biometeorology, 2017, Vol 61, Issue 6, p1011
- ISSN
0020-7128
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00484-016-1280-2