Paper alert: "Multiple dimensions of #biodiversity mediate effects of temperature on invertebrate #herbivory in a montane #grassland" in #Oikos

Led by @fh, with @annaliisalaine

We used vegetation and herbivory data along an elevational gradient from our #CalandaBiodiversityExploratories to study how temperature driven changes in the #plant #community drives herbivory risks.

https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10028

Paper alert: "Multiple dimensions of #biodiversity mediate effects of temperature on invertebrate #herbivory in a montane #grassland" in #Oikos

Led by @fh, with @annaliisalaine We used vegetation and herbivory data along an elevational gradient from our #CalandaBiodiversityExploratories to study how temperature driven changes in the #plant #community drives herbivory risks.

https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10028

Paper alert: "Multiple dimensions of #biodiversity mediate effects of temperature on invertebrate #herbivory in a montane #grassland" in #Oikos

We used vegetation and herbivory data along an elevational gradient from our #CalandaBiodiversityExploratories to study how temperature driven changes in the #plant #community drives herbivory risks.

https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10028

Paper alert: "Multiple dimensions of #biodiversity mediate effects of temperature on invertebrate #herbivory in a montane #grassland" in #Oikos https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10028

Paper alert: "Multiple dimensions of #biodiversity mediate effects of temperature on invertebrate #herbivory in a montane #grassland" in #Oikos

New NIOO publication: Integrating chemical plant trait- and ecological-based approaches to better understand differences in #insect #herbivory between #cultivated and #natural systems. #communityecology #plantdomestication
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2023.108643#spatialecology

@Carl_Zimmer some individual plants in populations seem more susceptible to galling, but I don't think anyone knows exactly why. This is true of #herbivory in general and not just #galls. The folks involved in the Herbivory Variability Network (https://herbvar.org) might have a better answer though.

A nice review on the drivers shaping the huge #Eurasian #forest-steppe by Erdos et al., emphasizing #Alternative #Biome States & #feedbacks (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2019.11.003, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2022.03.008)

Biol. Rev.: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12889

How come I haven't seen it before?

#ABS #steppe #forests #grasslands #fire #herbivory @ecology @plants @botany @wildfirescience @plantscience

Here's a little caterpillar of the NZ endemic moth species, Zapyrastra calliphana, mining it's way through a leaf of the NZ native plant, Muehlenbeckia australis.

This native caterpillar only eats this kind of native plant. Each caterpillar completes its larval life inside just one leaf, before dropping to the ground to pupate.

I found this in my garden on Friday as part of the City Nature Challenge (#CNC2023).

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/159316091

#caterpillar #moth #Aotearoa #NZ #herbivory

Taking a bite out of your Thursday!
Ma et al. explore the role of ZmMYC2 in #JA signaling during #maize defense responses to #herbivory.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13404
@wileyplantsci
#JIPB #phytopathology #ZmMYC2 #PlantScience #CropScience #agriculture #armyworm #spodoptera

Title is "More than what they eat: uncoupled biophysical constraints underlie geographic patterns of herbivory" with coauthors Jason Fridley and Vigdis Vandvik.

Also, favorite part of this article was the Cate le Bon quote I got away with including.

#herbivory #plants #interactions #biogeography #macroecology

The newly funded #PhytOakmeter Research Unit will offer 10 #PhD and 3 #Postdoc positions @jobRxiv @jobsecoevo to conduct exciting research on the interaction of #oaks and their #holobiont partners (#bacteria & #mycorrhiza) in the #acclimation and #adaptation to #drought and #herbivory. PhytOakmeter is coordinated by the #University of #Marburg, collaborating with @unifreiburg @unileipzig) @ufz @WSL_research @idiv[https://www.uni-marburg.de/en/fb17/phytoakmeter] Thanks to #dfg and @SNF_ch for the generous funding!

New publication: Growth substrates alter aboveground plant microbial and metabolic properties thereby influencing insect herbivore performance. #herbivory #cultivationpattern #gutmicrobiome #leafmetabolome
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-022-2279-5

Last PhD paper finally out! A few years back, we measured #invertebrate #herbivory on some 160'000 leaves. In this
Ecological Monographs paper, we show how #landuse changes herbivory rates and how this relates to changes in #plant and #insect communities🌿🪲

https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecm.1571

Going to be tomorrow at the first #conference of the year: #Oikos Finland in Helsinki.

I'll talk about the effect of seed limitation on plant community richness and biomass, and how this effect changes with #nutrients, #warming and #herbivory 🦌

Very nice results from a #tundra #seedaddition experiment, with Elina Kaarlejärvi and Anu Eskelinen.

Looking forward!!

Looks to be an innovative study on repeatability in host plant specialization and speciation at the community level (sawflies on Willow)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mec.16844

#evolution #herbivory

RT @adriatix
Our study led by Julia Santana-Garcon comparing #herbivory across a #tropicalisation gradient in the #Mediterranean is out! Herbivores mostly targeted #seagrass in the west & #seaweed in the east. This shift suggests seaweed forests are most vulnerable https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.1744#

RT @adriatix
Our study led by Julia Santana-Garcon comparing #herbivory across a #tropicalisation gradient in the #Mediterranean is out! Herbivores mostly targeted #seagrass in the west & #seaweed in the east. This shift suggests seaweed forests are most vulnerable https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.1744#

#NewPaper #Paleontology #Dinosaurs #Herbivory #Biomechanics

David J. Button, Laura B. Porro, Stephan Lautenschlager, Marc E.H. Jones & Paul M. Barrett (2023)
Multiple pathways to herbivory underpinned deep divergences in ornithischian evolution
Current Biology 33: 1–9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.12.01
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)01919-4

In 2022, I added flax notcher and scraper moth damage to the species I map along my standard runs through Ōtautahi-Christchurch. The caterpillars make distinctive damage on flax leaves (as I first learned in high school). In hindsight, this was crazy to try to map while running, but the results are fascinating! Flax cultivars are now widely planted in gardens, but almost all of the herbivory is on the old flax up in the hills.
#EcologicalMonitoring #WildCounts #Phormium #AotearoaNZ #Herbivory