Maize Responses Challenged by Drought, Elevated Daytime Temperature and Arthropod Herbivory Stresses: A Physiological, Biochemical and Molecular View [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Maize (Zea mays L.) is one of the main cereals grown around the world. It is used for human and animal nutrition and also as biofuel. However, as a direct consequence of global climate change, increased abiotic and biotic stress events have been reported
Hermann Restrepo-Diaz
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Plant Kinases in the Perception and Signaling Networks Associated With Arthropod Herbivory [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 The success in the response of plants to environmental stressors depends on the regulatory networks that connect plant perception and plant response. In these networks, phosphorylation is a key mechanism to activate or deactivate the proteins involved ...
Manuel Martinez
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021 Soil arthropods are important components of savannas, contributing to nutrient cycling and thus primary productivity. To investigate how fire and mammalian herbivores influence arthropod food webs, we used two long term herbivore exclosures (ca.
Heidi-Jayne Hawkins +2 more
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Environment vs. Plant Ontogeny: Arthropod Herbivory Patterns on European Beech Leaves along the Vertical Gradient of Temperate Forests in Central Germany [PDF]
Insects, 2018 Environmental and leaf trait effects on herbivory are supposed to vary among different feeding guilds. Herbivores also show variability in their preferences for plant ontogenetic stages. Along the vertical forest gradient, environmental conditions change,
Stephanie Stiegel +1 more
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Plant Diversity Impacts Decomposition and Herbivory via Changes in Aboveground Arthropods [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Loss of plant diversity influences essential ecosystem processes as aboveground productivity, and can have cascading effects on the arthropod communities in adjacent trophic levels.
Alexandra Weigelt +2 more
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Forest loss increases foliar insect and pathogen damage on poplar trees in natural riparian forests [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceLandscape-scale forest loss threats biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, but its effect on insect herbivory and pathogen infection on trees is not well understood.
Binli Wang, Ling Li
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Herbivory disrupts invasion-associated phyllosphere and arthropod community shifts in grasslands [PDF]
iScienceSummary: Biological invasions and changing herbivore communities can jointly reshape grassland ecosystems by altering vegetation structure, microclimate, microbial communities, and trophic interactions.
Marco Fioratti Junod +6 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Plant ecological traits affect the species identity of plant-colonizing arthropods, which in turn induces species-specific trait changes in plants, forming feedback between plants and arthropods.
Takeshi Miki +2 more
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Chronic anthropogenic disturbance mediates the bottom‐up influence of plant diversity on arthropods in tropical forests [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionUnderstanding how primary productivity and diversity affect secondary productivity is an important debate in ecology with implications for biodiversity conservation.
Orou G. Gaoue +2 more
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Temperature‐Dependent Shifts in Multiple Indirect Defensive Interactions on Black Cherry [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionMany plants engage in indirect defense via tri‐trophic interactions whereby plants provide resources such as food or shelter to mutualists in exchange for protection against herbivores and pathogens, increasing plant fitness. As temperature regimes shift
Emma Dawson‐Glass +2 more
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