Analysing spatial correlation of weeds and harvester ants in cereal fields using point processesArthropod-Plant Interactions - Tập 10 - Trang 197-205 - 2016
Carles Comas, Aritz Royo-Esnal, Jordi Recasens, Joel Torra
The interaction between the spatial distribution of weed richness and weed cover and the spatial location of harvester ant nets was investigated in cereal fields. The understanding of such interdependencies can be relevant to understand weed population dynamics in dryland cereal fields and may enhance management strategies for weed control. We used spatial statistical tools derived from point proc...... hiện toàn bộ
Modelling transmission characteristics and epidemic development of the tospovirus–thrip interactionArthropod-Plant Interactions - Tập 9 - Trang 107-120 - 2015
M. J. Jeger, F. van den Bosch, N. McRoberts
Tospoviruses are plant viruses in the genus Bunyaviridae transmitted in a persistent–propagative manner by a range of thrips species and cause disease in wide range of cultivated crops and wild hosts. The viruses in this genus are the only plant-infecting members of the Bunyaviridae. A distinguishing feature, of tospoviruses, from other persistent–propagative plant viruses is that acquisition fro...... hiện toàn bộ
Climate changes affecting biotic interactions, phenology, and reproductive success in a savanna community over a 10-year periodArthropod-Plant Interactions - Tập 12 - Trang 215-227 - 2017
Andréa Andrade Vilela, Vergilio Torezan Silingardi Del Claro, Helena Maura Torezan-Silingardi, Kleber Del-Claro
Climatic parameters are able to influence the timing of phenological events affecting the degree of synchrony among plant species, their interactions, and reproductive success. Shrubs of Malpighiaceae family in the Brazilian Tropical Savanna present sequential flowering phenology. We verified variations in climatic factors (temperature and precipitation) over a period of 10 years (2005–2014) and c...... hiện toàn bộ
Impacts of alien invasive Parthenium hysterophorus on flower visitation by insects to co-flowering plantsArthropod-Plant Interactions - Tập 13 - Trang 719-734 - 2019
Fredrick Ojija, Sarah E. J. Arnold, Anna C. Treydte
The exotic invasive plant Parthenium hysterophorus is invading many tropical habitats. While much work has been done on its interactions with other native plants, little is known about its interaction with insect floral visitors and how it impacts pre-existing pollination networks when it invades a site. We carried out surveys on sites with and without P. hysterophorus (invaded and uninvaded, resp...... hiện toàn bộ
Long-term ant-species-dependent dynamics of a myrmecochorous plant communityArthropod-Plant Interactions - Tập 7 - Trang 277-286 - 2013
Elena V. Gorb, Alexander E. Filippov, Stanislav N. Gorb
Myrmecochory or seed dispersal by ants is a widely spread phenomenon, and myrmecochorous plants constitute a large portion of species in many ecosystems. Since the ant species complex in the ecosystem is continuously changing in time and space, the long-term effects of such ant–plant interactions on the plant community remained unclear. The manifold information obtained in numerous previous studie...... hiện toàn bộ
Does chemistry make a difference? Milkweed butterfly sequestered cardenolides as a defense against parasitoid waspsArthropod-Plant Interactions - Tập 13 - Trang 835-852 - 2019
Carl M. Stenoien, Rebecca A. Meyer, Kelly R. Nail, Myron P. Zalucki, Karen S. Oberhauser
Plant allelochemicals have important roles in plant defense as well as ecological and co-evolutionary dynamics within tri-trophic systems of plants, herbivores, and natural enemies. Milkweed butterflies represent a model system for chemical ecology because they sequester cardenolides semi-proportionally to the concentration in their host plants, yet little is known about the role of sequestered ca...... hiện toàn bộ
Adaptation to new resources: interaction between introduced psyllids and native and exotic ants in Eucalyptus plantations in NW SpainArthropod-Plant Interactions - - 2024
Miguel Castro-Cardoso, Gema Trigos-Peral, Violette Chiara, Adolfo Cordero-Rivera, Iago Sanmartín-Villar
The multiple uses of eucalypt wood have driven massive plantations around the world. These plantations have been progressively invaded by Australian insects, some of which have become pests, threatening the plantation productivity, and modifying ecological networks of trophic interactions. In this study we addressed whether ants could recognize and exploit the food sources offered by the introduce...... hiện toàn bộ