Specialist insect herbivore and light availability do not interact in the evolution of an invasive plant

Z Zhang, X Pan, Z Zhang, KS He, B Li - PLoS One, 2015 - journals.plos.org
… Our results suggest that post-introduction evolution might have occurred in A. philoxeroides.
While light availability did not influence the evolution of tolerance to specialist herbivores, …

Revisiting the evolution of ecological specialization, with emphasis on insect–plant interactions

ML Forister, LA Dyer, MS Singer, JO Stireman III… - Ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… With the current availability of data (phylogenies) … is that host-specific insect herbivores will
also have predictably narrow (and specialized) environmental tolerances, though this has not

Community heterogeneity and the evolution of interactions between plants and insect herbivores

AA Agrawal, JA Lau… - The Quarterly review of …, 2006 - journals.uchicago.edu
was argued to be higher for specialized insect herbivores … variables, such as resource
availability, that in turn affect the … a plant by an herbivore is not independent of the presence of …

Effects of light availability on host plant chemistry and the consequences for behavior and growth of an insect herbivore

MPT Jansen, NE Stamp - Entomologia Experimentalis et …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
… Rutin can reduce growth, prolong development time and … for tomato on the growth of a
specialist insect herbivore. The … was affected by the interaction of experimental time and light

Elucidating the interaction between light competition and herbivore feeding patterns using functional–structural plant modelling

J De Vries, EH Poelman, N Anten, JB Evers - Annals of Botany, 2018 - academic.oup.com
… of how generalist and specialist herbivores affect plant fitness … damage compared with other
insect herbivores on B. nigra. … as well as carbon availability throughout plant development. …

Evolution of feeding behavior in insect herbivores

EA Bernays - Bioscience, 1998 - JSTOR
may interact with other ecological factors to select for … , insects had already partitioned the
available food resources, and a number of highly specialized insect feeding types had evolved

High correlation of species diversity patterns between specialist herbivorous insects and their specific hosts

C Du, J Chen, L Jiang, G Qiao - Journal of Biogeography, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… multiple factors involving ecology and evolution, we focus on … on biotic interactions for
specialist herbivorous insects, which … energy and water availability were not significantly related to …

What we don't know about diet-breadth evolution in herbivorous insects

NB Hardy, C Kaczvinsky, G Bird… - … of Ecology, Evolution …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
insect herbivores may tend to have more-specialized natural enemy assemblages, a suspicion
that could be tested with analysis of quantitative trophic interaction … data are available

Specialist versus generalist insect herbivores and plant defense

JG Ali, AA Agrawal - Trends in plant science, 2012 - cell.com
… generalists, will have distinct and predictable interactions with … traits, some specialist herbivores
have even evolved the capacity … B Novel compounds: for specialists that do not typically …

Evolution of insect/host plant relationships

T Jermy - The American Naturalist, 1984 - journals.uchicago.edu
… the available evidence, it is not clear that such plants arespecialist feeders may remain
specialists not because this is their … only evolutionary effect of the herbivores on the plant that is