Arthropod Communities on Native and Nonnative Early Successional Plants

Ballard, Meg; Hough-Goldstein, Judith; Tallamy, Douglas W.

doi:10.1603/en12315

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“…Lonicera maackii shrubs have been estimated to utilize~10% of available water resources in wetland forests (Boyce et al 2012) and reduce throughfall volume available to the forest floor in second-growth forests , which suggest this invasive plant influences water resources. Collectively, these studies identify L. maackii effects that span multiple ecological scales and suggest this species has similar impacts to those of other invasive plants (e.g., Ballard et al 2013;Chittka and Schürkens 2001;McNeish and McEwan 2016;Myers and Anderson 2003;Oliver 1996,), making L. maackii a good model species to study how riparian invasion influences terrestrial-aquatic linkages.…”

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Removal of the Invasive Shrub,Lonicera maackii(Amur Honeysuckle), from a Headwater Stream Riparian Zone Shifts Taxonomic and Functional Composition of the Aquatic Biota

McNeish

Benbow

McEwan

2017

Invasive plant sci. manag.

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Riparian plant invasions can result in near-monocultures along stream and river systems, prompting management agencies to target invasive species for removal as an ecological restoration strategy. Riparian plant invaders can alter resource conditions in the benthos and drive bottom-up shifts in aquatic biota. However, the influence of management activities on the structure and function of aquatic communities is not well understood. We investigated how removal of a riparian invader, Lonicera maackii (Amur honeysuckle), influenced aquatic macroinvertebrate community functional and taxonomic diversity in a headwater stream. We hypothesized that removal of L. maackii from invaded riparia would result in (H 1 ) increased aquatic macroinvertebrate abundance, density, and diversity; (H 2 ) a taxonomic and functional shift in community composition; and, in particular, (H 3 ) increased functional diversity. Aquatic macroinvertebrates were sampled monthly from autumn 2010 to winter 2013 in headwater stream riffles with a dense riparian L. maackii invasion and those where L. maackii had been experimentally removed. We found macroinvertebrate density was significantly higher in the L. maackii removal reach (P < 0.05) and that macroinvertebrate community structure and functional trait presence was distinct between stream reaches and across seasons (P < 0.05). The removal reach exhibited greater functional richness during spring and summer and had more unique functionally relevant taxa (20% and 85%) compared with the L. maackii reach (5% and 75%) during summer and autumn seasons. Our results suggest bottom-up processes link restoration activities in the riparian corridor and aquatic biota through alterations of functional composition in the benthic community. Nomenclature: Amur honeysuckle, Lonicera maackii (Rupr.) Maxim.

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Removal of the Invasive Shrub,Lonicera maackii(Amur Honeysuckle), from a Headwater Stream Riparian Zone Shifts Taxonomic and Functional Composition of the Aquatic Biota

McNeish

Benbow

McEwan

2017

Invasive plant sci. manag.

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“…For example, ornamental jewelweed (Impatiens glandulifera Royle), an Asian invader in central Europe, attracts native bee pollinators because its nectar is more nutrient rich than that of the native flowers, resulting in decreased fitness and abundance for the native flowers (Chittka and Schürkens 2001). Ballard et al (2013) found arthropod abundance, biomass, and richness was substantially reduced on nonnative plants compared with native plants, suggesting nonnative plants may affect food resources (e.g., arthropods) that support higher trophic levels. These studies highlight the importance of research on invasive plant impacts on animal communities.…”

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Rodent Granivores Generate Context-specific Seed Removal in Invaded and Uninvaded Habitats

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2013

The American Midland Naturalist

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“…Such uniformity seems unlikely to occur in the near future, but these authors also emphasised need for workers to provide clear objective designations of such terms to managers and others to whom the tasks of practical conservation may fall. Functional designations may have considerable value -thus, for plants, Ballard et al ( 2013 ) designated 'non-native species' as 'species introduced from areas outside of local food webs' and replacing native vegetation. The central stages of arrival, establishment and invasion are discussed in Chap.…”

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The Significance of Alien Species to Insect Conservation

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2016

Alien Species and Insect Conservation

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The pursuit of insect conservation is founded in informed management of species, assemblages and their functional environments to sustain them in the face of increasing variety of imposed changes, stresses and threats. Anthropogenic changes to natural environments are perhaps most severe in intensive processes related to the large areas subsumed by urbanisation and related industrialisation, agriculture and commercial forestry, in all of which land cover is changed fundamentally from its original condition. Those changes continue to expand and to progressively infl ict dramatic alterations on natural areas, notably of native vegetation, wetlands and freshwater bodies. Many sensitive ecological communities, many of them unique or highly restricted in extent, have been lost, together with the plants and animals they previously harboured.Direct destruction of natural and semi-natural areas, broadly 'habitat loss', is the most universal of a panoply of threatening processes associated with losses of biodiversity, with impacts that span the entire variety of Earth's biological heritage. Many factors contribute to increased endangerment of insect species -and, in most contexts in which the habitat or biotope is not clearly lost, the relative importance and impacts of these factors remain largely conjectural. Linked intricately with habitat changes, and major contributors to changes in native biodiversity, the advent and impacts of alien species -newcomers to their receptor environments -are also universal, with potential to markedly confound other habitat changes through imposing a range of novel ecological stresses and interactions. They are thus major concerns in conservation management, with the taxa of concern spanning all major taxonomic groups. Most alien species considered are plants, arthropods or vertebrates, but Wagner and Van Driesche ( 2010 ) also included invasive pathogens and detritivores in their review of impacts and drawing largely from North American contexts.

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Arthropod Communities on Native and Nonnative Early Successional Plants

Cited by 48 publications

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Removal of the Invasive Shrub,Lonicera maackii(Amur Honeysuckle), from a Headwater Stream Riparian Zone Shifts Taxonomic and Functional Composition of the Aquatic Biota

Removal of the Invasive Shrub,Lonicera maackii(Amur Honeysuckle), from a Headwater Stream Riparian Zone Shifts Taxonomic and Functional Composition of the Aquatic Biota

Rodent Granivores Generate Context-specific Seed Removal in Invaded and Uninvaded Habitats

The Significance of Alien Species to Insect Conservation

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