Insect and plant traits drive local and landscape effects on herbivory in grassland fragments
Ecosphere, 2019 Herbivory is one of the most important antagonistic insect–plant interactions and can be influenced by factors at local and landscape scales. Landscape fragmentation may reduce herbivory directly (i.e., decreasing abundance and species richness of ...
Verena Rosch +2 more
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Anthropogenic Pressures, Rather Than Plant Vigour, Promote Insect Herbivory Rates on Securidaca longepedunculata Along Elevation in a South African Woodland [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionUnderstanding why some plants experience greater herbivory than others is central to predicting population dynamics and ecosystem resilience. We tested the plant vigour hypothesis, the resource concentration hypothesis and the role of anthropogenic ...
Mashudu Patience Mamathaba +3 more
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Insect herbivory reshapes a native leaf microbiome. [PDF]
Nat Ecol Evol, 2020 Abstract Insect herbivory is pervasive in plant communities, but its impact on microbial plant colonizers is not well-studied in natural systems. By calibrating sequencing-based bacterial detection to absolute bacterial load, we find that the within-host abundance of most leaf microbiome (phyllosphere) taxa colonizing
Humphrey PT, Whiteman NK.
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Insect herbivory facilitates the establishment of an invasive plant pathogen. [PDF]
ISME Commun, 2021 Abstract Plants can be severely affected by insect herbivores and phytopathogenic fungi, but interactions between these plant antagonists are poorly understood. We analysed the impact of feeding damage by the abundant herbivore Orchestes fagi on infection rates of beech (Fagus sylvatica) leaves with Petrakia liobae, an invasive plant ...
Gossner MM +4 more
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Persistent inner tepals and wings protect developing seeds of Rheum nanum from insect herbivory in Central Asian cold deserts [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionAlthough the postdispersal functions of diaspore (fruit and its appendages) have been reported, little is known about their protective/defensive functions.
Yuting Li +4 more
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Insect herbivory along environmental gradients
Open Journal of Ecology, 2012 There is a general assumption in the literature that insect herbivory increases towards the tropics, but decreases with increasing altitude. Similar generalities have been identified along other environmental gradients, such as resource, temperature, climatic and biotic gradients. However there is growing evidence in the scientific literature that such
Nigel Andrew, Sarah Hill
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Insect herbivory within modern forests is greater than fossil localities [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022 Lauren Azevedo Schmidt +2 more
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Synergistic effects of insect herbivory and changing climate on plant volatile emissions in the subarctic tundra [PDF]
Global Change Biology, 2021 Jolanta Rieksta +2 more
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Insect herbivory on urban trees: Complementary effects of tree neighbours and predation
Peer Community Journal, 2022 Insect herbivory is an important component of forest ecosystems functioning and can affect tree growth and survival. Tree diversity is known to influence insect herbivory in natural forest, with most studies reporting a decrease in herbivory with ...
Stemmelen, Alex +5 more
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The role of isoprene in insect herbivory [PDF]
Plant Signaling & Behavior, 2008 Several hypotheses have previously been proposed to explain the function of isoprene in plants, including its ability to protect the leaf metabolic machinery from transient high temperature1,2 and from oxidative stress.3 Isoprene may also serve as a metabolic overflow mechanism for carbon or photosynthetic energy4-6 and may promote flowering in ...
Laothawornkitkul, Jullada +6 more
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