Plant-herbivore networks composed by adult and immature insects have distinct responses to habitat modification in Brazilian savannas

Silveira, Luana Teixeira; Araújo, Walter Santos de

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“…Similarly, males and females of many species may differ considerably in abundances, activity period, behaviour and longevity (Cordellier et al, 2020;Kirkendall, 1993;Sielezniew et al, 2020;Smith et al, 2019;Williams et al, 2022). By omitting unidentifiable immature stages or sexes in such cases, we lose much that is of interest to the community under study, including accurate estimates of species richness, abundance, biomass, community structure and functional diversity (Fikáček et al, 2023;Marcos-García et al, 2012;Silveira & de Araújo, 2021). At the same time, studies of arthropod phylogeny, taxonomy and evolution are greatly strengthened by inclusion of characters from all the forms a species and its genome may manifest (Faria et al, 2021;Lawrence et al, 2011;Meier et al, 2016;Norton & Ermilov, 2014;Yeo et al, 2018).…”

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“…Similarly, males and females of many species may differ considerably in abundances, activity period, behaviour and longevity (Cordellier et al, 2020; Kirkendall, 1993; Sielezniew et al, 2020; Smith et al, 2019; Williams et al, 2022). By omitting unidentifiable immature stages or sexes in such cases, we lose much that is of interest to the community under study, including accurate estimates of species richness, abundance, biomass, community structure and functional diversity (Fikáček et al, 2023; Marcos‐García et al, 2012; Seniczak et al, 2022; Silveira & de Araújo, 2021).…”

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Overcoming life stage‐centric biases illuminates arthropod diversity, systematics and biology

Caterino,

Recuero

2024

Systematic Entomology

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Synthetic studies of arthropod systematics and biodiversity are hindered by overreliance on ‘preferred’ semaphoronts, those life stages (typically adult males) that provide the most taxonomically distinctive characters. However, modern sequence‐based methods for inventory have no such limitations and permit incorporation of any and all representatives of a species. Here, we briefly review the growth and potential of these approaches to faunistic and systematic studies and share results from our own recent work that illustrate the value that other morphs, immature stages and females added to these studies.

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“…Similarly, males and females of many species may differ considerably in abundances, activity period, behaviour and longevity (Cordellier et al, 2020; Kirkendall, 1993; Sielezniew et al, 2020; Smith et al, 2019; Williams et al, 2022). By omitting unidentifiable immature stages or sexes in such cases, we lose much that is of interest to the community under study, including accurate estimates of species richness, abundance, biomass, community structure and functional diversity (Fikáček et al, 2023; Marcos‐García et al, 2012; Seniczak et al, 2022; Silveira & de Araújo, 2021).…”

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Overcoming life stage‐centric biases illuminates arthropod diversity, systematics and biology

Caterino,

Recuero

2024

Systematic Entomology

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“…Anthropic disturbances triggered by agriculture, forest exploitation, and the expansion of human settlements drive changes in local habitats and landscape attributes threatening biodiversity and the ecological processes underlying ecosystem integrity [1][2][3][4]. Local-and landscape-scale habitat perturbation and the consequent changes in biotic communities and ecological processes are evident in the shifts of the herbivory levels.…”

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“…A decreased landscape connectivity can hinder the dispersion of certain species, favouring more mobile, generalist species, such as large chewing insects. These shifts can modify plant-herbivore networks, increasing connectivity and reducing specialisation [2,15], potentially fostering biotic homogenisation by altering the trophic structure of herbivore communities [16,17].…”

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Linking Anthropogenic Landscape Perturbation to Herbivory and Pathogen Leaf Damage in Tropical Tree Communities

Pablo-Rodríguez,

Bravo-Monzón,

Montiel-González

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Anthropogenic disturbance of tropical humid forests leads to habitat loss, biodiversity decline, landscape fragmentation, altered nutrient cycling and carbon sequestration, soil erosion, pest/pathogen outbreaks, among others. Nevertheless, the impact of these alterations in multitrophic interactions, including host–pathogen and vector–pathogen dynamics, is still not well understood in wild plants. This study aimed to provide insights into the main drivers for the incidence of herbivory and plant pathogen damage, specifically, into how vegetation traits at the local and landscape scale modulate such interactions. For this purpose, in the tropical forest of Calakmul (Campeche, Mexico), we characterised the foliar damage caused by herbivores and pathogens in woody vegetation of 13 sampling sites representing a gradient of forest disturbance and fragmentation in an anthropogenic landscape from well preserved to highly disturbed and fragmented areas. We also evaluated how the incidence of such damage was modulated by the vegetation and landscape attributes. We found that the incidence of damage caused by larger, mobile, generalist herbivores, was more sensitive to changes in landscape configuration, while the incidence of damage caused by small and specialised herbivores with low dispersal capacity was more influenced by vegetation and landscape composition. In relation to pathogen symptoms, the herbivore-induced foliar damage seems to be the main factor related to their incidence, indicating the enormous importance of herbivorous insects in the modulation of disease dynamics across tropical vegetation, as they could be acting as vectors and/or facilitating the entry of pathogens by breaking the foliar tissue and the plant defensive barriers. The incidence of pathogen damage also responded to vegetation structure and landscape configuration; the incidence of anthracnose, black spot, and chlorosis, for example, were favoured in sites surrounded by smaller patches and a higher edge density, as well as those with a greater aggregation of semi-evergreen forest patches. Fungal pathogens were shown to be an important cause of foliar damage for many woody species. Our results indicate that an increasing transformation and fragmentation of the tropical forest of southern Mexico could reduce the degree of specialisation in plant–herbivore interactions and enhance the proliferation of generalist herbivores (chewers and scrapers) and of mobile leaf suckers, and consequently, the proliferation of some symptoms associated with fungal pathogens such as fungus black spots and anthracnose. The symptoms associated with viral and bacterial diseases and to nutrient deficiency, such as chlorosis, could also increase in the vegetation in fragmented landscapes with important consequences in the health and productivity of wild and cultivated plant species. This is a pioneering study evaluating the effect of disturbances on multitrophic interactions, offering key insights on the main drivers of the changes in herbivory interactions and incidence of plant pathogens in tropical forests.

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The structure of plant-herbivore interactions in urban savanna fragments reveals an unexpected high specialization and dependency on plant and insect attributes

de Araújo,

de Freitas

2024

Urban Ecosyst

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Plant-herbivore networks composed by adult and immature insects have distinct responses to habitat modification in Brazilian savannas

Cited by 6 publications

References 53 publications

Overcoming life stage‐centric biases illuminates arthropod diversity, systematics and biology

Overcoming life stage‐centric biases illuminates arthropod diversity, systematics and biology

Linking Anthropogenic Landscape Perturbation to Herbivory and Pathogen Leaf Damage in Tropical Tree Communities

The structure of plant-herbivore interactions in urban savanna fragments reveals an unexpected high specialization and dependency on plant and insect attributes

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