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1. Beth Purse beth@ceh.ac.uk
WP3 Core Team: Louise Barwell, Dan Chapman, Ana Perez-
Sierra, Beatrice Henricot, Mariella Marzano, Michael Dunn,
David Cooke, Sarah Green
Phytothreats:
WP 3 overview
2. WP3 objectives –identify and rank global Phytophthora
threats to the UK
WP3.1 Risk of introduction
WP3.3 Horizon-scanning for emerging
pathogens: scoping of knowledge gaps
WP3.2 Risk of establishment and spread
Trait-based
frameworks to
inform risk
register
• Identify the most important trade
pathways
• Link introduction risk to ecological
traits
• Map global environmental niches of
Phytophthora species
• Link establishment in Europe to social
factors and ecological traits
• Map risk areas in the UK
• identify research priorities for horizon
scanning for emerging pathogens (supply
chains, tourism pathways)
3. WP3.1
Risk of introduction
WP3 Milestones
• WP3 Compile European database of country level occurrence/arrival of Phytophthoras in
nursery and wider environment and associated trade and environmental data (year 1)
• WP3 Compile global database of fine scale occurrence data for ~40 target Phytophthora species
and associated environmental data (year 1)
• WP3 Compile traits database for Phytophthora species (including all species found in Europe plus
selected others worldwide) (year 2)
• WP3 Complete models relating to patterns of introduction and establishment in Europe to
species traits, trade pathways and local environmental conditions and global niche models for ~
40 target Phytophthora species worldwide (year 3)
• WP3 Develop policy brief for UK risk register board and other stakeholders on improved risk
ranking for Phytophthoras (year 3)
4. WP3.1 - Risk of introduction
Aims:
• Identify the most important trade and recreational pathways
linking Phytophthora source regions to the UK
• Model introduction risk based on transport networks, source
and destination characteristics
• Test links between introduction risk and traits
Agricultural trade
flows into Europe
5. Milestone: Global country-level database of
occurrence/arrival of Phytophthoras (year 1)
• 17371 country-level records
• 1417 species x country combinations
• Source / recipient country
• Year of first record – arrival
• Invasion status
WP3.1 - Risk of introduction
7. WP3.1 – National recording and biosecurity effort
• National pest
reporting
activity (IPPC)
• Legal
instruments
(ECOLEX)
• Biosecurity
investment
(FAO)
• descriptors of
Plant Health
Inspector or
Research
activity
Turbelin et al. 2017 Global Ecology and Biogeography, 26, 78–92
Legal instruments
relevant to
invasive species
9. WP3.1 – preliminary analyses: first models
Response
# Phytophthora arrivals per country since 2000
Predictors
trade connectivity to pest source countries
(total imports of live plants)
Biosecurity effort
(# pieces of invasive species legislation)
Surveillance effort
(# official pest reports - IPPC)
10. WP3.1 – Live plant imports
Live plant imports + recording effort together explained 59.4% of deviance in the
number of new Phytophthoras arriving in a country since 2000
12. Key data sources
THDAS 268 records (to 2016, update?)
SASA 820 records
eDOMERO 12,596 (P type) , 28,515 (SOD
inspection)
RHS 1595 records
Premise types: ports, airports, nursery, private and public
gardens, garden centres and shops, woodland and heathland
WP3.1 –Interception/escape in the UK
13. WP3.1 –Interception/escape in the UK
• From premise types, possible to separate sites of
interception from sites of onward spread?
• Relate species (i) extent of interception and (ii) extent of
onward spread to traits
• Define source pool as those species present in countries
that UK trades in plants/substrates with (threshold level)
• Relate geographical pattern of spread to environmental
characteristics and traits
14. WP3.2
Risk of establishment and
spread
WP3 Milestones
• WP3 Compile European database of country level occurrence/arrival of Phytophthoras in
nursery and wider environment and associated trade and environmental data (year 1)
• WP3 Compile global database of fine scale occurrence data for ~40 target Phytophthora species
and associated environmental data (year 1)
• WP3 Compile traits database for Phytophthora species (including all species found in Europe plus
selected others worldwide) (year 2)
• WP3 Complete models relating to patterns of introduction and establishment in Europe to
species traits, trade pathways and local environmental conditions and global niche models for ~
40 target Phytophthora species worldwide (year 3)
• WP3 Develop policy brief for UK risk register board and other stakeholders on improved risk
ranking for Phytophthoras (year 3)
15. Global site-level database
Collation has continued:
Data to come from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa,
RGBE, Canada (meta-barcoding)
• 11407 records (1 - 10 km precision)
• 82 species
• 38 countries
17. Culture collections Citizen Science Projects
Governmental bodies
Global distribution databases
Data sources
Published records
Diagnostic laboratories Sequence data repositoriesConsultants
Researchers
Agricultural
Forest / forestry
Nursery / ornamental
18. Niche models: potential global impact, establishment and spread in UK
Burgess, T.I., Scott, J.K., McDougall, K.L., Stukely, M.J.C., Crane, C., Dunstan, W.A., Brigg, F., Andjic, V., White, D.,
Rudman, T., Arentz, F., Ota, N. & Hardy, G.E.S.J. (2016) Current and projected global distribution of Phytophthora
cinnamomi , one of the world’s worst plant pathogens. Global Change Biology
• Matching past
patterns in
occurrence with
environmental
data
• E.g. over 15000
presences from
11 countries
• 5 CLIMEX
meteorological
variables
19. Focal species (see Huddle for list)
Known / potential impacts on UK tree species
Exclude:
• species known
only from
water/soil
• species with only
non-woody hosts
• Non-relevant
woody hosts: e.g.
Eucalyptus spp.
Crossover species
Risk maps
(Absent from UK)
Model validation
(Present in UK)
N = 24N = 30
20. WP3 – Accounting for biases in reporting effort
Predicted relative risk of emerging infectious disease events
Reporting bias not
accounted for
Reporting bias factored
into analysis
Allen et al. 2017
Nature Communications
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-
00923-8
21. WP3 – Accounting for biases from recording effort
• Mine scientific literature for locations where a wider
taxonomic group have been reported
• e.g. Oomycetes or fungal plant pathogens
• e.g. CAB abstracts? Genbank?
• Map recording intensity at 5km or 10km grid scale and
include as layer or down-weight records for species in
highly recorded areas
Where do plant pathologists, plant health practitioners
and researchers publish their data?
22. Potential environmental drivers of Phytophthora
distributions: break out groups
Which environmental factors do you think influence
the establishment and spread of Phytophthoras in
particular locations?
Rank factors
RANK Establishment Why do you think this is important?
Most important 1
2
3
4
Least important 5
RANK Spread Why do you think this is important?
Most important 1
2
3
4
Least important 5
23. WP3.1 & WP3.2
A global Phytophthora trait
database
WP3 Milestones
• WP3 Compile European database of country level occurrence/arrival of Phytophthoras in
nursery and wider environment and associated trade and environmental data (year 1)
• WP3 Compile global database of fine scale occurrence data for ~40 target Phytophthora species
and associated environmental data (year 1)
• WP3 Compile traits database for Phytophthora species (including all species found in Europe plus
selected others worldwide) (year 2)
• WP3 Complete models relating to patterns of introduction and establishment in Europe to
species traits, trade pathways and local environmental conditions and global niche models for ~
40 target Phytophthora species worldwide (year 3)
• WP3 Develop policy brief for UK risk register board and other stakeholders on improved risk
ranking for Phytophthoras (year 3)
24. • Merged Phytophthora database
(June 2017)
• 179 species (8 hybrids, 13
provisionally named)
• Maintained by Scion Research
• Phylogeny included
Phytophthora trait database
Peter Scott Nari Williams Giles Hardy Treena Burgess
Ana Perez-SierraBeatrice Henricot
25. Phytophthora trait database publication
Conceptual framework for links between traits and
invasion success of Phytophthora
Do closely related species share similar values for
traits or groups of traits or have traits linked to
invasion evolved independently in several places in
the phylogeny?
Are some traits more labile (weak phylogenetic
signal) whilst other traits are more constrained or
gradual in evolutionary trajectory (strong phylogenetic
signal)?
26. Phytophthora trait database publication
How do traits co-vary across species and how much
of this is down to phylogenetic history rather than
convergent evolution of trait syndromes?
Can the traits of hybrids be predicted from those of
the parent taxa?
28. Phytophthora phylogenies
Treena Burgess
Also multi-gene
phylogenies,
resolve deeper
nodes:
78 species: Martin and
Coffey (2014)
133 species: Yang et
al. (2018)
179 species,
ITS-based
29. Phylogenetic signal: sporangial traits
• All medium to strong phylogenetic structure (λ = 0.798 to 1)
• Strongest signal - proliferating versus non-proliferating sporangia
• Non-papillate sporangia almost exclusively in clades 6, 7 and 9
• Caducous sporangia most frequently in clades 1 to 3.
30. Phylogenetic signal: reproductive traits
• Moderate phylogenetic structure (λ = 0.744 to 0.836) in
reproductive strategy and survival structures (oospores,
chlamydospores, hyphal swellings)
• Morphology of oospores and oogonia weakest phylogenetic signal
(λ = 0.471 to 0.748)
31. Phylogenetic signal: temperature traits
• medium to strong phylogenetic structure (λ = 0.617 to 0.981)
• Strongest signal – growth rate at optimum temperature, fastest in
sub-clade 6a
• Optimum and maximum temperatures also highly conserved, higher
trait values clustering in clades 6a and 9
32. Phylogenetic signal: temperature traits
• Thermal tolerance range and minimum growth temperatures less
phylogenetically conserved
33. Tempo of trait diversification over time - within versus
between clade trait variation
High average within-clade disparity at given
point in time (compared to that expected from
Brownian model, grey) suggests rapid
diversification and independent evolution to
share common traits between clades
• Minimum growth temperature
and temperature tolerance
range more labile (greater
within-clade disparity) than
other temperature traits
• All thermal traits - greater
within-clade disparity in recent
evolutionary history
• Oospore traits also more labile
than expected from Brownian
model of evolution
Averagesub-cladedisparity
Relative time
Oospore wall thickness Oospore wall index
Growth rate – opt T Min. growth temp.
Max. growth temp.Opt. growth temp.
Temp. tolerance range
34. Do thermal traits especially cold-tolerance modulate
invasion of Phytophthora into temperate regions?
• Emerging infections at higher latitudes linked to cold tolerance? Test with
occurrence data
• Biological basis of cold-tolerance in Phytophthoras?
35. Trait syndromes - how do traits co-vary with each
other and how much of this is driven by phylogeny?
36. Global impact of Phytophthora
• Can species traits explain the global impact of Phytophthora
species?
- Phytophthora trait database (170 species
depending on phylogeny)
- Global impact metrics
• Do Phytophthora trait syndromes outperform individual traits
as predictors of global impact?
37. Trait-based analysis: impact metrics
• Geographical extent (# countries reported)
• Host range (# host families)
• Regulation (# NPPO/ RPPO lists)
• Reports of new geographic regions / hosts
(EPPO Reporting Service archives)
• Legislation (ECOLEX database)
38. Trait-based analysis of Phytophthora impacts
Fitness
Trait A
Trait B
Trait C
Growth rate
Survival
Reproduction
Global impact
SpreadTrait D
Traits Invasion fi Performance Response
Assumed indirect effects
40. Global impact of Phytophthora
• Can species traits explain the global impact of Phytophthora
species?
- Phytophthora trait database (170 species)
- Global impact metrics
• Do Phytophthora trait syndromes outperform individual traits
as predictors of global impact?
41. Traits versus trait syndromes
Phytophthora trait data:
Trait database (102
species)
ordination of
trait-space
trait syndromesindividual traits
Compare model performance
Impact ~ individual traits Impact ~ trait syndromes
Phytophthora impact
metrics:
- host range
- geographic extent
43. Can trait syndromes explain global impact?
• Highest impact species at greater values of axes 1 and 2
cause root disease + heterothallic + multiple survival structures +
broad thermal tolerances + rapid growth at optimum
• Mostly consistent with trait effects in individual trait models
44. Predicting host range: traits versus trait syndromes
Better model performance
Predictiveerror
45. Predicting host range: traits versus trait syndromes
• Root (and foliar) disease symptoms
predict broad host range
Phytophthora
• Trait syndromes are more
ecologically informative about their
global impact
• A trait-based early-warning system
for pathogens (which have the
similar traits but no impact yet?)
!
heterothallism + alternative survival structures disease symptoms impact?
46. Phytophthora traits – added new traits
10 traits
• Arrival / establishment
o Oospores or not
o chlamydospores
o hyphal swellings
o proliferating sporangia
• Establishment
o mating strategy
o thermal tolerance for growth
o growth rate at optimum temperature
o minimum temperature for growth
• Spread
o caducous sporangia (aerial spread)
• Impact
o root disease (below-ground)
o foliar disease (above ground)
47. Tested impact-trait relationships using different
phylogenies
Treena Burgess
Also multi-gene
phylogenies,
resolve deeper
nodes:
78 species: Martin and
Coffey (2014)
133 species: Yang et
al. (2018)
179 species,
ITS-based
48. Milestones: Plan for next year
• Submit papers on (i) trait database and phylogenetic
analyses (ii) linking traits and global impact Global
occurrence and environmental databases (ongoing)
• Fine-tune species-specific trade models (December
2018)
• UK and European spread models (March 2019)
WP3 Milestones
• WP3 Compile European database of country level occurrence/arrival of Phytophthoras in
nursery and wider environment and associated trade and environmental data (year 1)
• WP3 Compile global database of fine scale occurrence data for ~40 target Phytophthora species
and associated environmental data (year 1)
• WP3 Compile traits database for Phytophthora species (including all species found in Europe plus
selected others worldwide) (year 2)
• WP3 Complete models relating to patterns of introduction and establishment in Europe to
species traits, trade pathways and local environmental conditions and global niche models for ~
40 target Phytophthora species worldwide (year 3)
• WP3 Develop policy brief for UK risk register board and other stakeholders on improved risk
ranking for Phytophthoras (year 3)
49. Milestones: Plan for next year
• Finalise niche models (April 2019)
• Finalise tourism review and questionnaire analysis
• Co-develop final model outputs with policy makers and
practitioners e.g. interactive source maps, list of
Phytophthoras associated with key forestry species
WP3 Milestones
• WP3 Compile European database of country level occurrence/arrival of Phytophthoras in
nursery and wider environment and associated trade and environmental data (year 1)
• WP3 Compile global database of fine scale occurrence data for ~40 target Phytophthora species
and associated environmental data (year 1)
• WP3 Compile traits database for Phytophthora species (including all species found in Europe plus
selected others worldwide) (year 2)
• WP3 Complete models relating to patterns of introduction and establishment in Europe to
species traits, trade pathways and local environmental conditions and global niche models for ~
40 target Phytophthora species worldwide (year 3)
• WP3 Develop policy brief for UK risk register board and other stakeholders on improved risk
ranking for Phytophthoras (year 3)
51. A thank you to our funders
and all those who have kindly
shared their data
Acknowledgements
Editor's Notes
Do hybrids share traits with parent taxa
Therefore we report λ as a measure of the phylogenetic signal in each trait and use it to infer the extent to which different traits appear to be more labile (weak phylogenetic signal) and which traits appear to be either constrained or gradual in their evolutionary trajectory (strong phylogenetic signal). ?
Do hybrids share traits with parent taxa
Therefore we report λ as a measure of the phylogenetic signal in each trait and use it to infer the extent to which different traits appear to be more labile (weak phylogenetic signal) and which traits appear to be either constrained or gradual in their evolutionary trajectory (strong phylogenetic signal). ?
Give an example
For the three phylogenies, it looks like the number of species we can match is
179 (Treena’s ITS-only)
78 (Martin and Coffey, 2014 - multi-gene)
133 (Yang 2018 – multi-gene) - I had a another look at this when I got home and I was totally wrong about the species matches. There are actually plenty. I was looking at the mismatched list (~40), not the matched list like an idiot. So it is still a contender, although perhaps the ML, rather than the Bayesian version because of the outgroup problem.
Check values against latest version
Which traits have high and low phylogenetic signal
Lambda robust even if not Brownian evolution
When λ or κ = 1, trait divergence is proportional to branch lengths (Brownian Motion). When λ = 0 the trait value has no phylogenetic structure and is distributed randomly across the tree.
All sporangial features (Fig. 1A) showed medium to strong phylogenetic structure (λ = 0.798 to 1).
The strongest phylogenetic signal was in the production of proliferating (the production of secondary sporangia either below or within primary sporangia or on a new sporangiophore) or non-proliferating sporangia. The distribution of papillate, semi-papillate or non-papillate sporangia was also strongly correlated with phylogenetic relatedness. Sporangia of species in clades 6, 7 and 9 were almost exclusively non-papillate, while papillate or semi-papillate sporangia pre-dominated in the remaining clades. Sporangiophore form was also (more weakly) phylogenetically structured, with simple sympodial morphology more abundant in clades 1 to 5 and clade 11 and unbranched morphology predominating in the remaining clades. Caducous sporangia were also phylogenetically structured occurring most frequently in clades 1 to 3. Pedicle length is applicable only to species with caducous sporangia, but among those species the trait showed strong phylogenetic signal with all pedicle lengths short in clade 1 and medium to long pedicle lengths more frequent in clade 2. g. 1A) showed medium to strong phylogenetic structure (λ = 0.798 to 1).
There was moderate phylogenetic signal (λ = 0.744 to 0.836) in reproductive strategy and the production of different types of survival structures (oospores, chlamydospores and hyphal swellings).
The morphology of reproductive structures (oospores and oogonia) tended to show the weakest phylogenetic signal of all Phytophthora traits (λ = 0.471 to 0.748), although phylogenetic signal in antheridial attachment was strong (λ = 0.968).
Among temperature features (λ = 0.617 to 0.981), the strongest phylogenetic signal was observed for growth rate at optimum temperature, with the fastest growth rates clustering in sub-clade 6a. Optimum and maximum temperatures for growth also highly conserved with species with preferences for higher optimum and maximum temperatures tending to cluster in clades 6a and clade 9. Thermal tolerance range and minimum temperatures for growth were less phylogenetically conserved, but still showed some phylogenetic signal.
Among temperature features (λ = 0.617 to 0.981), the strongest phylogenetic signal was observed for growth rate at optimum temperature, with the fastest growth rates clustering in sub-clade 6a. Optimum and maximum temperatures for growth also highly conserved with species with preferences for higher optimum and maximum temperatures tending to cluster in clades 6a and clade 9. Thermal tolerance range and minimum temperatures for growth were less phylogenetically conserved, but still showed some phylogenetic signal.
Partitioning trait variation within and between clades
Amongst temperature features, for optimum and maximum temperatures for growth, the proportion of trait diversity contained within clades versus between clades, was not significantly greater than would be expected under a Brownian Motion null model. In contrast, disparity in minimum temperatures for growth and thermal tolerance range within clades were consistently significantly higher than expected. There was a tendency for all temperature traits to show increased partitioning trait disparity within clades in more recent phylogenetic history.
relative disparity, as implemented in the R package geiger (Harmon et al., 2008). For each quantitative trait, at each node, average sub-clade disparity was measured as pairwise Euclidean distance among trait values. This disparity within sub-clades was expressed as a proportion of trait disparity in the entire clade (relative trait disparity: Harmon et al. 2003) in relative time along the phylogeny. By comparing the observed relative disparity to the expected relative disparity under Brownian motion, we can visualise the tempo of trait diversification through time. High average within-clade disparity at a given time in phylogenetic history would suggest that sub-clades have diversified rapidly and independently evolved to share common traits between clades. Relative disparity through time can be summarised into a morphological disparity index (MDI) representing the overall difference in average within-clade disparity compared with that expected under Brownian motion. High MDI can be interpreted as evidence that a trait is more labile through evolutionary time.
This method is only applicable to continuous traits currently. Adapting it to categorical traits could be quite difficult. Perhaps we could just focus on the thermal tolerance traits for this part of the analysis to illustrate how minimum temp tolerance has tended to be more labile through evolutionary time (and is therefore more likely to respond to current selection pressures)?
cold-tolerance may be labile than heat-tolerance? There’s evidence for this among other taxa (e.g. Araujo et al. 2013). Implications for colonising novel regions? Are higher latitudes more prone to new arrivals? Are recent emerging infectious diseases at higher latitudes associated with adaptation to cold-tolerance? Do we know (have a feeling about) the origin of any of these (e.g. P. ramorum, cinnamomi, austrocedri) that might corroborate this?
Treena’s pictures
Pr versus Pk
Look at with spread models in Europe and Global
Biological basis of thermal tolerance, how thermal traits co-vary with others?
With and without phylogeny
Significant pairwise trait correlations for 24 traits among 179 Phytophthora species. Significance is defined as correlations with 95% posterior distributions that do not overlap zero. Traits are arranged in functional groups of sporangial features, temperature features, survival structures and oospore features. Trait correlations are derived from pure latent variable models with (A) unconstrained latent variables, so that trait correlations reflect all evolutionary processes driving trait covariance (B) phylogenetically constrained latent variables, so that only trait correlations due to shared phylogenetic history are captured. Where trait correlations are stronger in (A) than in (B), there may be an additional non-phylogenetic component to relationships between traits, for instant convergent co-evolution of traits in more distant parts of the phylogeny.
There was a strong association between all sporangial morphology traits (Fig. 2). Species with non-proliferating sporangia tended also to be caducous, have either papillate or semi-papillate sporangia, with simple sympodial sporangiophore form. Proliferating sporangia tended to also be non-caducous, non-papillate and with unbranched sporangiophore form
e.g Phytophthora riparia?
saprotrophic strategy
thermophilic: high thermal profile, opt 30c, max 35c
sterile
proliferating, non-caducous sporangia
Low impact: no known hosts, known only from forest streams and rivers in the USA
Give an example
Update with louise’s new figure with and without the impact traits.
Update with latest findings
Reproductive strategies can be more flexible than homo-heterothallism distinction would suggest, so Treena suggested modifying to just consider oospores versus no oospores, minimum temperature included because most labile.
Look up biological significance of proliferating sporangia and check terminology
We hope that the trait-based framework can be used as a predictive tool, when a pathogen is first described, when only a few morphological or biological traits are known or measured. The root and foliar disease traits may only be fully described after a species has been known for quite some time, so we compared the performance of models with and without these impact traits. Because information on other trait or impact values like host range may also take time to accumulate, we included time known to science as a potential explanatory variable in our analysis. This should eventually let us predict for recently described species, the eventual host range for example.
For the three phylogenies, it looks like the number of species we can match is
179 (Treena’s ITS-only)
78 (Martin and Coffey, 2014 - multi-gene)
133 (Yang 2018 – multi-gene) - I had a another look at this when I got home and I was totally wrong about the species matches. There are actually plenty. I was looking at the mismatched list (~40), not the matched list like an idiot. So it is still a contender, although perhaps the ML, rather than the Bayesian version because of the outgroup problem.