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Impact of volcanic ash deposition on foliar productivity and insect herbivory in northern Patagonia deciduous forests

Ecología Austral, 2014
Ecología Austral, 24:51-63 (2014) Volcanism has been a major force shaping the dynamics of Andean landscapes during the Holocene. Yet we still know little about the consequences of modern volcanic events on forest functioning.
Enrique J. Chaneton, Noemí Mazía, Lucas A. Garibaldi, Jaquelina Chaij, Thomas Kitzberger   +4 more
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Cascading bottom‐up effects of invasive alien plants on the parasitoid Aphidius colemani mediated by the aphid host Aphis fabae

Pest Management Science, EarlyView.
Differences in the suitability of invasive alien plants as hosts drove variations in cascading bottom‐up effects in aphid host and parasitoid performance, potentially influencing top‐down regulation. Abstract BACKGROUND Invasive alien plants (IAP) can threaten biodiversity by disrupting trophic interactions and, consequently, affect agroecosystems by ...
Emma Pluchard, Aude Couty, Arnaud Ameline, Géraldine Doury   +3 more
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Consistent increase in herbivory along two experimental plant diversity gradients over multiple years

Ecosphere, 2017
Research on the functional importance of biodiversity, motivated by global species loss, has documented that plant species richness affects many plant‐related ecosystem functions.
Sebastian T. Meyer, Lukas Scheithe, Lionel Hertzog, Anne Ebeling, Cameron Wagg, Christiane Roscher, Wolfgang W. Weisser   +6 more
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Effects of timed LED regimes on tomato plant traits, performance of two‐spotted spider mites, and predatory mites (Phytoseiulus persimilis)

Pest Management Science, Volume 81, Issue 4, Page 2300-2311, April 2025.
Light‐emitting diode (LED)‐based treatments for enhancing crop production and pest management have primarily focused on continuous treatments. This study, using Tetranychus urticae and Phytoseiulus persimilis, demonstrates that the timing of LED supplementation is crucial for designing integrated pest management strategies that improve both plant ...
Patrice Savi, Samantha Hall, Maria Hernandez, Anil Mantri, Daniel Kliebenstein, Christian Nansen   +5 more
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Understory plant diversity and plantation traits mediate the effects of arthropod diversity on herbivory rates in African mahogany plantations

Trees, Forests and People
Forest plantations and agricultural land use are gradually replacing natural forests. Biodiversity conservation in the Anthropocene must include the diversity of species in these novel ecosystems and human-modified landscapes.
Bienvenu Houehanou, Orou G. Gaoue
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Oldest leaf mine trace fossil from East Asia provides insight into ancient nutritional flow in a plant–herbivore interaction

Scientific Reports, 2022
The Late Triassic saw a flourish of plant–arthropod interactions. By the Late Triassic, insects had developed all distinct strategies of herbivory, notably including some of the earliest occurrences of leaf-mining.
Yume Imada, Nozomu Oyama, Kenji Shinoda, Humio Takahashi, Hirokazu Yukawa   +4 more
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Interactions between prairie dogs and arthropods in grassland ecosystems: a review and research gaps

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Prairie dogs (Cynomys spp.) are an important component of grassland ecosystems of North America where they can alter vegetation composition/structure and physical attributes of grassland habitats through their feeding and burrowing behavior. Impacts of prairie dog presence on many wildlife and plant taxa have been widely studied but research on prairie
Joshua W. Campbell, Alexandra Tsalickis, Ellen A. R. Welti, Itai Namir   +3 more
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Land use intensification results in abrupt transitions between extensively and intensively managed grasslands

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Understanding whether land use intensification causes regime shifts (i.e. persistent, large changes in ecosystem states) is of key importance for management, particularly if these shifts occur abruptly as thresholds in land use intensity are crossed.
Hugo Saiz, Lena Neuenkamp, Caterina Penone, Klaus Birkhofer, Nico Blüthgen, Steffen Boch, Michael Bonkowski, Francois Buscot, María Felipe‐Lucia, Anna Maria Fiore‐Donno, Markus Fischer, Martin Freitag, Oscar Godoy, Kezia Goldmann, Martin Gossner, Ute Hamer, Norbert Hölzel, Kirsten Jung, Ellen Kandeler, Valentin Klaus, Till Kleinebecker, Sophia Leimer, Sven Marhan, Yvonne Oelmann, Jörg Overmann, Daniel Prati, Swen Renner, Matthias Rillig, Sebastian Seibold, Michael Schloter, Ingo Schoening, Johannes Sikorski, Stephanie Socher, Emily Solly, Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter, Barbara Stempfhuber, Catrin Westphal, Wolfgang Wilcke, Tesfaye Wubet, Susanne Wurst, Eric Allan   +40 more
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Evidences that human disturbance simplify the ant fauna associated a Stachytarpheta glabra Cham. (Verbenaceae) compromising the benefits of ant-plant mutualism

Brazilian Journal of Biology
Interaction among species, like ants and plants through extrafloral nectaries (EFNs), are important components of ecological communities’ evolution. However, the effect of human disturbance on such specific interactions and its ecological consequences is
BC. Barbosa, R. Fagundes, LF. Silva, JFV. Tofoli, AM. Santos, BYP. Imai, GG. Gomes, MM. Hermidorff, SP. Ribeiro   +8 more
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Russian wheat aphid: a model for genomic plasticity and a challenge to breeders

Insect Science, EarlyView.
Invasive foundress finds suitable habitat and reproduces through pathogenesis. Wingless females produce life offspring quickly, which leads to high population densities. High population densities result in competition, which may induce epigenetic changes and wing development for dispersal.
Astrid Jankielsohn, Vicky L. Tolmay, Marlon‐Schylor Luke le Roux, Lintle Mohase, Mpho S. Mafa, Vittorio F. Nicolis, Eduard Venter, Nicolaas Francois Visser Burger, Anna‐Maria Botha   +8 more
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