Oikos, Volume 2026, Issue 7, July 2026.Landscape heterogeneity is widely recognized as a driver of biodiversity, yet its consequences for above‐ground, foliage‐dwelling insect communities under active grassland management remain underexplored. Patch‐burn grazing (PBG), which rotates fire across patches within a grazed landscape, is designed to promote spatial and temporal heterogeneity by ...
Zachary L. T. Bunch +5 more
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Plant and insect functional traits influence herbivore performance under climate change
Oikos, Volume 2026, Issue 7, July 2026.Climate change is expected to disrupt many trophic interactions, including those between insect herbivores and their host plants, which could have detrimental effects at the ecosystem level. However, the response of insect herbivory to climate change can vary widely across species, and an understanding of the mechanisms underlying this variation is ...
Jessica M. Guezen, Madhur Anand
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Plant Functional Traits Better Explain the Global Latitudinal Patterns of Leaf Insect Herbivory than Climatic Factors. [PDF]
Plants (Basel)Ji Y +6 more
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Pest Management Science, Volume 82, Issue 7, Page 7050-7061, July 2026.Rhizobacterial inoculation of barley reduced Sitobion avenae populations by inducing plant resistance and modifying volatiles that attracted parasitoid wasps earlier, enhancing both bottom‐up and top‐down pest control. Abstract BACKGROUND Soil rhizobacteria can enhance crop resistance to insect herbivores and influence higher trophic interactions ...
Megan E Parker +2 more
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Effects of climate on leaf phenolics, insect herbivory, and their relationship in pedunculate oak (Quercus robur) across its geographic range in Europe. [PDF]
OecologiaValdés-Correcher E +29 more
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Digging into dirt: Rewilding with threatened mammals shapes soil‐emerging insect assemblages
Journal of Animal Ecology, Volume 95, Issue 7, Page 1207-1219, July 2026.By comparing insect communities across treatments at two time points, we show that reintroduced digging mammals shape soil‐emerging insect assemblages. This provides empirical evidence that restoring ecosystem engineers may drive broader community‐level change in semi‐arid ecosystems. Abstract Digging mammals function as ecosystem engineers by altering
Lucy G. Johanson +3 more
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Selective Feeding of the Duckweed Weevil on Three Common Species of Duckweed in Japan
Plant Species Biology, Volume 41, Issue 4, July 2026.We examined the feeding preferences of the duckweed weevil on three duckweed species: Spirodela polyrhiza (Sp), Landoltia punctata (Lp), and Lemna aequinoctialis (La). Feeding assays showed that the area of Lp consumed was significantly smaller than that of Sp and La.
Minako Isoda +5 more
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Exploring a Role for the Arabidopsis TIR-X Gene (TIRP) in the Defense Against Pathogenic Fungi or Insect Herbivory Attack. [PDF]
Int J Mol SciNeufeld S +4 more
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Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, Volume 174, Issue 7, Page 670-684, July 2026.We assessed Spodoptera litura (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) performance on five common pasture plant species. Larvae consumed more dock, plantain and chicory per day than red or white clover, but with lower conversion efficiencies. Feeding on red clover reduced weights and egg laying, and lengthened development times compared with plantain.
J. G. Jensen +4 more
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Correction for Xiao et al., The modern pattern of insect herbivory predates the advent of angiosperms by 60 My. [PDF]
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