Insect conservation, technological traps, and the fading arts of natural history and field ecology

LA Dyer, AM Smilanich, Z Gompert… - Current Opinion in Insect …, 2024 - Elsevier
Conclusion AI, drones, DNA barcoding,-omics, remotely collected big citizen science
databases, and development of rapid diversity assessments are certainly helping efforts to …

The effects of human population density on trophic interactions are contingent upon latitude

JA Hernández‐Agüero, I Ruiz‐Tapiador… - Global Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Global‐scale studies are necessary to draw general conclusions on how trophic
interactions vary with urbanization and to explore how the effects of urbanization change …

Insect herbivory on Acer rubrum varies across income and urbanization gradients in the DC metropolitan area

E Blake, S Bennett, A Hruska, KJ Komatsu - Urban Ecosystems, 2024 - Springer
Urbanization has increased wealth disparity within the United States, impacting the urban
landscape and species interactions. In particular, the interactions between street trees and …

Neutrality in plant–herbivore interactions

VS Pan, WC Wetzel - Proceedings of the Royal Society …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Understanding the distribution of herbivore damage among leaves and individual plants is a
central goal of plant–herbivore biology. Commonly observed unequal patterns of herbivore …

Shifting interactions between ectomycorrhizae, plants and insect herbivores in a CO 2‐enriched world

LN Zehr, CM Prada, BN Taylor - Journal of Ecology, 2024 - shibata.yubetsu.com
Shifting interactions between ectomycorrhizae, plants and insect herbivores in a CO 2 ‐enriched
world - Yubetsu Shibata Yubetsu Shibata logo About Browse Contact 1.Journal of Ecology 2.Volume …

Effects of fast and slow-wilting soybean genotypes on fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) growth and development

J Ayala, A Vasquez, D Balakrishnan… - … & Integrative Biology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Soybean (Glycine max) is the most important plant protein source, and Fall Armyworm (FAW,
Spodoptera frugiperda) is considered a major pest. This study aimed to examine the impact …

Vulnerability of seedlings to herbivore and pathogen attack: the importance of plant vigor and plant nutritional quality in Hymenaea courbaril

GW Fernandes, L Ramos, JC Santos, R Perea… - Arthropod-Plant …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The Plant Vigor Hypothesis (PVH) predicts that herbivorous insects will
preferentially feed on large plants with more vigorous growth, or on more vigorous parts of …

Insect herbivory on woody broadleaf seedlings along a subtropical elevational gradient supports the resource concentration hypothesis

X Wang, L Chen, H Zhang, P Liu… - American Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Premise Theories of plant–herbivore interactions hold that seedlings are more vulnerable to
herbivory in warmer and more stable climates at lower elevations. Hypotheses of plant …

The roles of florivory and herbivory in maintaining intra‐population flower colour variation in Anemone coronaria

N Saabna, T Keasar, Y Sapir - Plant Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Most flowering plants are colour monomorphic, while within‐population flower colour
variation is rare. Multiple selection agents on flower colour, each favouring a different colour …

Variation in the strength of local and regional determinants of herbivory across the Neotropics

T Joy Massad, A Rangel Nascimento… - Oikos, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Insect herbivory can be an important selective pressure and contribute substantially to local
plant richness. As herbivory is the result of numerous ecological and evolutionary …