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Foliar herbivory and its effects on plant growth in native and exotic species in the Patagonian steppe
(Springer Tokyo, 2012-09)
Studies of herbivory and its consequences on the growth of native and exotic plants could help elucidate some processes involved in plant invasions. Introduced species are likely to experience reduced herbivory in their ...
Insect and plant traits drive local and landscape effects on herbivory in grassland fragments
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2019-05)
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 ...
Impact of Soil Rhizobacteria Inoculation and Leaf-Chewing Insect Herbivory on Mentha piperita Leaf Secondary Metabolites
(Springer, 2020-06)
Secondary metabolites commonly play important physiological roles in plants and can be modified quantitatively and qualitatively by exposure to biotic and abiotic interactions. Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) ...
Patterns of insect-mediated damage in a Permian Glossopteris flora from Patagonia (Argentina)
(Elsevier Science, 2018-10-15)
A total of 2523 fossil plant specimens from the La Golondrina Formation (Permian, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina) were examined in order to assess the diversity, frequency and representation of insect damage. Although no ...
Nutrient supply and bird predation additively control insect herbivory and tree growth in two contrasting forests. Oikos
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2010-02)
It has been suggested that bottom-up and top-down forces interactively control food web dynamics. While top-down effects would increase with resource availability to plants, bottom-up effects would be stronger under low ...
Solar UV-B radiation affects leaf quality and insect herbivory in the southern beech tree Nothofagus antarctica
(Springer, 2004-03)
We examined the effects of solar ultraviolet-B (UV-B) radiation on plant-insect interactions in Tierra del Fuego (55°S), Argentina, an area strongly affected by ozone depletion because of its proximity to Antarctica. Solar ...
Environmental and genetic control of insect abundance and herbivory along a forest elevational gradient
(Springer, 2011-04)
Environmental conditions and plant genotype may influence insect herbivory along elevational gradients. Plant damage would decrease with elevation as temperature declines to suboptimal levels for insects. However, host ...
Is the inverse leafing phenology of the dry forest understory shrub Jacquinia nervosa (Theophrastaceae) a strategy to escape herbivory?
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 2006)
A look into the invisible: Ultraviolet-B sensitivity in an insect (Caliothrips phaseoli) revealed through a behavioural action spectrum
(The Royal Society, 2010-02-21)
Caliothrips phaseoli, a phytophagous insect, detects and responds to solar ultraviolet-B radiation (UV-B; λ ≤ 315 nm) under field conditions. A highly specific mechanism must be present in the thrips visual system in order ...
Herbivory alters plant carbon assimilation, patterns of biomass allocation and nitrogen use efficiency
(Elsevier Masson, 2018-01)
Herbivory can trigger physiological processes resulting in leaf and whole plant functional changes. The effects of chronic infestation by an insect on leaf traits related to carbon and nitrogen economy in three Prunus avium ...