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Plant invasion alters latitudinal pattern of plant-defense syndromes
(Ecological Society of America, 2021-12)
The relationship between herbivory and latitude may differ between native and introduced populations of invasive plants, which can generate latitudinal heterogeneity in the strength of enemy release. However, still little ...
Exotic plants get a little help from their friends. Interactions with herbivores and microbes link exotic-plant success with carbon cycling
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2020-05)
Terrestrial ecologists have identified multifaceted controls—climate, biogeography, disturbances, and their interactions—that shape how plant communities in natural ecosystems organize in space and time. Multiple documented ...
Herbivores safeguard plant diversity by reducing variability in dominance
(2018-01)
Reductions in community evenness can lead to local extinctions as dominant species exclude subordinate species; however, herbivores can prevent competitive exclusion by consuming otherwise dominant plant species, thus ...
Population regulation in large northern herbivores: Evolution, thermodynamics, and large predators
(Blackwell Verlag GmbH Berlin, 2000-12)
Understanding population regulation of large northern herbivores like cervids has important practical and theoretical implications. Corrective measures for high densities of cervids must be based on theory and thus necessitate ...
Leaf herbivory modulates fruit trait correlations within individual plants
(Springer, 2020-06)
Plant performance is based on the relationship between resource acquisition and allocation to complete essential functions. Herbivory causes compromises in resource allocation that impact at the plant and within-plant ...
Herbivores safeguard plant diversity by reducing variability in dominance
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2018-01)
Reductions in community evenness can lead to local extinctions as dominant species exclude subordinate species; however, herbivores can prevent competitiveexclusion by consuming otherwise dominant plant species, thus ...
Contribution of predation to the biological control of a key herbivorous pest in citrus agroecosystems
(Wiley, 2019-03-21)
Biological control has traditionally simplified the view of trophic relationships between herbivorous pests and their natural enemies in agriculture. The success or failure of this pest management strategy is still mainly ...
The plant hormone salicylic acid interacts with the mechanism of anti‐herbivory conferred by fungal endophytes in grasses
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2018-02)
The plant hormone salicylic acid (SA) is recognized as an effective defence against biotrophic pathogens, but its role as regulator of beneficial plant symbionts has received little attention. We studied the relationship ...
Consequences of leaf-cutting ants on plant fitness: integrating negative effects of herbivory and positive effects from soil improvement
(Birkhauser Verlag Ag, 2017-02)
A better understanding of plant–herbivore relationships should integrate negative and positive effects of consumers on plant fitness. We studied the effect of a major insect herbivore (leaf-cutting ants, LCA) on plant ...
Landscape connectivity explains interaction network patterns at multiple scales
(Ecological Society of America, 2019-08)
Under a metacommunity framework, the spatial configuration of habitat fragments could determine local community structure. Yet, quantifying fragment connectivity is challenging, as it depends on multiple variables at several ...