Department of Entomology, UC Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Ecol Lett. 2010 Jan;13(1):1-10. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01402.x. Epub 2009 Nov 23.
Climate change is altering the phenology of many species and the timing of their interactions with other species, but the impacts of these phenological shifts on species interactions remain unclear. Classical approaches to the study of phenology have typically documented changes in the timing of single life-history events, while phenological shifts affect many interactions over entire life histories. In this study, we suggest an approach that integrates the phenology and ontogeny of species interactions with a fitness landscape to provide a common mechanistic framework for investigating phenological shifts. We suggest that this ontogeny-phenology landscape provides a flexible method to document changes in the relative phenologies of interacting species, examine the causes of these phenological shifts, and estimate their consequences for interacting species.
气候变化正在改变许多物种的物候学和它们与其他物种相互作用的时间，但这些物候变化对物种相互作用的影响仍不清楚。经典的物候学研究方法通常记录单一生命史事件时间的变化，而物候变化则影响整个生命史中的许多相互作用。在这项研究中，我们提出了一种方法，将物种相互作用的物候学和个体发育与适应度景观相结合，为研究物候变化提供一个通用的机制框架。我们认为，这种个体发育-物候景观提供了一种灵活的方法来记录相互作用物种的相对物候变化，研究这些物候变化的原因，并估计它们对相互作用物种的后果。
