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Environmental DNA, 2023 Arthropods can strongly impact ecosystems through pollination, herbivory, predation, and parasitism. As such, characterizing arthropod biodiversity is vital to understanding ecosystem health, functions, and services.
Mark D. Johnson +8 more
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Benefits of jasmonate-dependent defenses against vertebrate herbivores in nature
eLife, 2016 Endogenous jasmonates are important regulators of plant defenses. If and how they enable plants to maintain their reproductive output when facing community-level herbivory under natural conditions, however, remains unknown.
Ricardo AR Machado +4 more
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Comparison of arthropod communities between high and low input maize farms in Mexico
CABI Agriculture and Bioscience, 2021 Background Animal communities are vulnerable to agricultural practices. Intensive farming considerably reduces overall arthropod diversity, but not necessarily pest abundance.
E. del-Val, E. Ramírez, M. Astier
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Monitoring Arthropods in Azorean Agroecosystems: the project AGRO-ECOSERVICES [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2021 The data we present are part of the AGRO-ECOSERVICES project (Assessing ecosystem services and disservices provided by arthropod species in Azorean agroecosystems).
Paulo Borges +11 more
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Wheat Argonaute 5 Functions in Aphid–Plant Interaction
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 Aphids feeding on plants experience similar responses to pathogens due to the prolonged and intimate contact with the plant. Diuraphis noxia is an economically important aphid pest on wheat that exhibits such an interaction.
Phumzile Sibisi, Eduard Venter
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Time-size trade-offs in responses of cycads to male cone herbivory
Communicative & Integrative Biology, 2010 Plant-arthropod pollination mutualisms based on adults as pollinators and juveniles as predators of reproductive structures are understood to be successful by balancing the benefits of pollination with the antagonisms of herbivory.
Thomas E. Marler
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The alpine cushion plant Silene acaulis as foundation species: a bug's-eye view to facilitation and microclimate. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Alpine ecosystems are important globally with high levels of endemic and rare species. Given that they will be highly impacted by climate change, understanding biotic factors that maintain diversity is critical.
Olivia Molenda +2 more
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PLoS ONE, 2015 Most forests are exposed to anthropogenic management activities that affect tree species composition and natural ecosystem processes. Changes in ecosystem processes such as herbivory depend on management intensity, and on regional environmental ...
Jule Mangels +5 more
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PLoS ONE, 2012 We conducted a study of natural variation in functional leaf traits and herbivory in 116 clones of European aspen, Populus tremula L., the Swedish Aspen (SwAsp) collection, originating from ten degrees of latitude across Sweden and grown in a common ...
Kathryn M Robinson +3 more
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Experimental Manipulation of Grassland Plant Diversity Induces Complex Shifts in Aboveground Arthropod Diversity. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Changes in producer diversity cause multiple changes in consumer communities through various mechanisms. However, past analyses investigating the relationship between plant diversity and arthropod consumers focused only on few aspects of arthropod ...
Lionel R Hertzog +3 more
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