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Role of Leaf Traits in Driving Genotypic Diversity‐Mediated Associational Effects in Silver Birch

Ecology and Evolution
Trees growing in more diverse stands generally experience less herbivory than those in less diverse ones, potentially due to neighbourhood‐mediated variations in traits which influence leaf palatability.
Juri A. Felix, Philip C. Stevenson, Julia Koricheva   +2 more
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Do invasive clonal plants always benefit from clonal integration? Exploring interactions between biocontrol agents and indigenous herbivores

Biological Control
Clonal integration can help plants counter environmental stresses, but its effects on plant responses to herbivory remain unclear. We investigated how clonal integration in the invasive Alternanthera philoxeroides and the native Alternanthera sessilis ...
Yingying Tan, Wenfeng Guo, Tao Xiong, Jun Tang, Xiaoqiong Li   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spatial metrics in fire ecology: seeking consistency amidst complexity

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Technological advances, including remote sensing, have led to a proliferation of metrics used in ecological studies to examine spatial patterns of fire regimes and their ecological effects. Researchers can use many different metrics to analyse spatial variation in both fire events and resulting fire regimes, including fire size, shape ...
Alexander R. Carey, Geoffrey J. Cary, Teigan Cremona, Hugh F. Davies, Brett P. Murphy, Sam C. Banks   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Substantial Insect Herbivory in a South African Savanna‐Forest Mosaic: A Neglected Topic

Ecology and Evolution
Insect herbivory plays a crucial role in shaping plant communities in many terrestrial ecosystems. However, in African savannas, insect herbivory has been relatively understudied compared to large mammalian herbivory.
Heveakore Maraia, Tristan Charles‐Dominique, Kyle W. Tomlinson, Ann Carla Staver, Leonardo Re Jorge, Uriel Gélin, Jitka Jancuchova‐Laskova, Legi Sam, Dawood Hattas, Inga Freiberga, Katerina Sam   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hypoxia and Acidification, Individually and in Combination, Disrupt Herbivory and Reduce Survivorship of the Gastropod, Lacuna vincta

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020
Acidification and deoxygenation are two consequences of climate change that also co-occur in eutrophied coastal zones and can have deleterious effects on marine life.
Craig S. Young, Christopher J. Gobler
doaj   +1 more source

Herbivory mediates grass-endophyte relationships

, 2007
Endophytic fungi are plant symbionts living asymptomatically within plant tissues. Neotyphodium spp., which are asexual vertically transmitted systemic fungal endophytes of cool-season grasses, are predicted to be plant mutualists.
Koh, S., Hik, D. S.
core   +1 more source

Being Well-Connected Pays in a Disturbed World: Enhanced Herbivory in Better-Linked Habitats

, 2020
Seascapes are typically comprised of multiple components that are functionally linked by the movement of organisms and fluxes of matter. Changes to the number and spatial arrangement of these linkages affect biological connectivity that, in turn, can ...
Rod M. Connolly, Engelhard, Sarah L, Olds, Andrew D, Brown, Christopher J, Schlacher, Thomas A, Pearson, Ryan M, Jinks, Kristin I, Kristin I. Jinks, Christopher J. Brown, Sarah L. Engelhard, Ryan M. Pearson, Andrew D. Olds, Thomas A. Schlacher, Connolly, Rod M   +13 more
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Diet of bird‐like troodontid dinosaurs: synthesis of a contentious clade

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Troodontidae is a clade of small‐to medium‐sized maniraptoran theropods that mainly lived in Laurasia (modern Asia, North America and Europe) during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are believed to have had a variety of diets. The uniqueness of troodontid teeth suggests that they diverged from the typical flesh‐based diet of non‐avian ...
Yui Chi Fan, Case Vincent Miller, Michael Pittman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fear of grazing rivals the toxin‐inducing effects of nutrients in two marine harmful algae – a meta‐analysis

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT One of the major subfields of chemical ecology is the study of toxins and how they mediate interactions between organisms. Toxins produced by harmful algae (phycotoxins) impact a wide variety of organisms connected to the marine food web. Significant research efforts have thus aimed to identify the ecological and evolutionary drivers behind ...
Milad Pourdanandeh, Erik Selander
wiley   +1 more source

Florivory: the intersection of pollination and herbivory [PDF]

Ecology Letters, 2006
AbstractPlants interact with many visitors who consume a variety of plant tissues. While the consequences of herbivory to leaves and shoots are well known, the implications of florivory, the consumption of flowers prior to seed coat formation, have received less attention.
Andrew C, McCall, Rebecca E, Irwin
openaire   +2 more sources