In this study, I evaluated the impact of elevated CO2 and insect herbivory on the genotypic response of Arabidopsis thaliana . I performed greenhouse and field experiments to examine plant ecological traits related to life history, fitness, and resistance and their variation under different abiotic and biotic conditions. Results from a greenhouse experiment provided evidence that herbivory by the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella, can modify the fitness response of A. thaliana to enriched CO2 conditions. Even though elevated CO 2 significantly enhanced plant fitness in the absence of herbivores, diamondback moth herbivory either decreased or suppressed the fitness response of A. thaliana to elevated CO2 (fitness decreased by 22--50% across genotypes). I further tested the hypothesis that elevated CO2 and herbivory can disrupt and restructure functional associations among plant fitness-related traits. This investigation demonstrated that elevated CO2 alone, and CO2 combined with herbivory ...

Background/Question/Methods. The invasion of non-native plants into novel ecosystems has the potential to alter ecological dynamics across multiple trophic levels from the individual to community scale. The interaction between insect herbivores and invasive plants may contribute to invasive success and alter herbivore and predator abundance and community composition. Euonymus alatus (burning bush) and E. europaeus (spindle tree) are two related invasive plants that occur in natural areas in North America. To evaluate the contribution of plant-herbivore interactions to the potential invasiveness of these non-native species, we measured in field herbivory rates as well as the performance of a model generalist herbivore (H. cunea) on these plants compared to a native congener (E. atropurpureus, eastern wahoo). In addition to altering interactions with herbivores, invasive plants can have major impacts on native vegetation and can drastically alter the structure of forest ecosystems. Similarly, ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Negative effects of vertebrate on invertebrate herbivores mediated by enhanced plant nitrogen content. AU - Zhu, Yu. AU - Zhong, Zhiwei. AU - Pages, Jordi F.. AU - Finke, Deborah. AU - Wang, Deli. AU - Ma, Quanhui. AU - Hassan, Nazim. AU - Zhu, Hui. AU - Wang, Ling. N1 - 6703, Aqr; Data Archiving: data archived at Dryad. PY - 2019/3. Y1 - 2019/3. N2 - Classic theory holds that the main interaction within the herbivore guild is competition, based on research focused on co‐occurring, similarly sized species that reduce the quantity of shared plant resources. However, plant quality may also be crucial in mediating herbivore interspecific interactions. This is especially true when competition occurs between distantly related herbivore species, given that small terrestrial herbivores (e.g., insect herbivores) appear to be more sensitive to alterations of plant quality than plant quantity.In this study, we first tested in the field whether large vertebrate herbivores (cattle Bos ...

Background/Question/Methods Herbivory is expected to have important effects on grassland plant community structure and biomass. However, the effects of herbivores may be mitigated by plant resource availability, which can influence plant compensatory response and plant defense, and may vary among herbivore taxonomic groups. Although a number of experiments have tested the relative importance and interactive effects of herbivory and plant resource availability in limiting plant biomass, little is known about how different herbivore taxonomic groups contribute to these patterns particularly in terrestrial systems. We tested for the additive or interactive effects of insect and non-bovine mammalian herbivores on plant community structure and biomass in a restored grassland in south-central Kansas. The experiment consisted of ninety-six, 3.5x4 m plots. Mammal access was restricted by fencing while insect abundance was reduced by applying a pyrethroid-based insecticide every two weeks during the ...

1. This study investigated whether sand-dune willow Salix cordata, exhibits genetic variation in resistance and tolerance to herbivory. 2. A field experiment using cuttings from nine willow clones demonstrated genetic variation in resistance to the specialist herbivore Altica subplicata, as measured by beetle densities. Willow clones differed significantly in both total biomass and leaf trichome densities, and herbivore densities were marginally correlated with both of these parameters. 3. Tolerance to herbivory was measured in a greenhouse experiment by comparing growth response of plants experiencing 50% artificial defoliation and plants experiencing no defoliation. Clones showed significant differences in tolerance to herbivory for some growth measures (changes in height and number of leaves), but not for other growth measures (stem diameter growth and final biomass). 4. Despite the significant genetic variation in both resistance and tolerance, no trade-off was found between resistance and ...

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TY - CHAP. T1 - Insect herbivore population dynamics on trees and shrubs. T2 - New approaches relevant to latent and eruptive species and life table development. AU - Price, Peter W.. AU - Cobb, Neil S. AU - Craig, Timothy P.. AU - Fernandes, G. Wilson. AU - Itami, Joanne K.. AU - Mopper, Susan. AU - Preszler, Ralph W.. PY - 2017/1/1. Y1 - 2017/1/1. N2 - The development of life tables and their analyses so dominated the field of insect population dynamics in the 1960s that the approach may be regarded as a paradigm: the prevalent model in the field which frames the way in which we view the natural world. We examine, here, the validity of the life table approach, and what we have learned from several decades of its use. In 1989 the first life table for understanding natural populations of insects and their dynamics, developed by Morris and Miller, 113 was 35 years old (see Reference 37 for earlier life table developments). Analytical approaches for a series of life tables began to appear in 1959. ...

I have, in this thesis, studied the interactions between gray-sided voles (Clethrionomys rufocanus) and tundra vegetation, on islands in, and mainland sites close to the lake Iešjávri, in northern Norway. As isolated islands are virtually free of predation, I have been able to compare plant-herbivore interactions in the presence and absence of predators. I transplanted vegetation from an island with predators and voles, to predator-free islands with and with out voles. The results reveal the existence of a terrestrial trophic cascade as voles had a severe impact on the transplanted vegetation on the predator-free islands, but only minor effects on the mainland where predators are present. Moreover, this study shows that plant defence was only a successful strategy when predators were present. Voles reduced the abundance of all available plants during winter on the predator-free islands. The results imply that cascading effects of predation are most important for well-defended plants with ...

Autor: Pandey, Shree Prakash et al.; Genre: Zeitschriftenartikel; Im Druck veröffentlicht: 2008; Titel: Herbivory-induced changes in the small-RNA transcriptome and phytohormone signaling in Nicotiana attenuata

According to the theory of predator-prey interactions, the relationship between herbivores and plants is cyclic.[1] When prey (plants) are numerous their predators (herbivores) increase in numbers, reducing the plant population, which in turn causes herbivore number to decline.[1] The prey population eventually recovers, starting a new cycle. This suggests that the population of the herbivore fluctuates around the carrying capacity of the food source, in this case the plant.. There will always be pockets of plants not found by herbivores. This is important for specialist herbivores which feed on only one species of plant: it prevents these specialists from wiping out their food source.[2] Eating a second plant type helps herbivores populations stabilize.[2] Alternating between two or more plant types provides population stability for the herbivore, while the populations of the plants oscillate.[1] When an invasive herbivore or plant enters the system, the balance is thrown off and the diversity ...

Two decades of research have not established whether tropical insect herbivores are dominated by specialists or generalists. This impedes our understanding of species coexistence in diverse rainforest communities. Host specificity and species richness of tropical insects are also key parameters in mapping global patterns of biodiversity. Here we analyse data for over 900 herbivorous species feeding on 51 plant species in New Guinea and show that most herbivorous species feed on several closely related plant species. Because species-rich genera are dominant in tropical floras, monophagous herbivores are probably rare in tropical forests. Furthermore, even between phylogenetically distant hosts, herbivore communities typically shared a third of their species. These results do not support the classical view that the coexistence of herbivorous species in the tropics is a consequence of finely divided plant resources; non-equilibrium models of tropical diversity should instead be considered. Low host ...

FW by Andy Wilson |||| MS Graduate Research Assistantship - Impact of Wildlife Herbivory on Desert Grassland Regeneration We seek a Masters student to investigate regeneration of desert grasslands in southern Arizona. A series of historical exclosures combined with construction of new exclosures permit an experimental assessment of the role of wildlife herbivory on plant…

Oswalt, Christopher M.; Clatterbuck, Wayne K.; Oswalt, Sonja N.; Houston, Allan E.; Schlarbaum, Scott E. 2004. First-year Effects of Microstegium Vimineum and Early Growing Season Herbivory on Planted High-quality Oak (Quercus Spp.) Seedlings in Tennessee. In: Yaussy, Daniel A.; Hix, David M.; Long, Robert P.; Goebel, P. Charles, eds. Proceedings, 14th Central Hardwood Forest Conference; 2004 March 16 19; Wooster, OH. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-316. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station: 1-9. ...

Insect herbivores play an essential role in structuring plant communities and species interaction therein. Plant response to herbivory, particularly to non-native insects, can be difficult to predict. A diverse array of feeding strategies, including leaf-chewing, wood-boring, and piercing-sucking, leads to varied plant responses following attack. Piercing-sucking insects are known to alter source-sink dynamics but are relatively understudied, particularly in woody plants. Two piercing-sucking invasive insects, hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae; HWA) and the elongate hemlock scale (Fiorinia externa; EHS), are commonly found on eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis; hemlock) in the eastern United States. Hemlock, a native shade tolerant conifer, provides unique habitat for a range of biota and plays an important role in structuring ecosystems, but is threatened throughout much of its range because of HWA. HWA drives rapid decline in tree health, whereas EHS rarely kills trees. The individual and

Salt marsh die-off is a Western Atlantic conservation problem that has recently spread into Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, USA. It has been hypothesized to be driven by: 1) eutrophication decreasing plant investment into belowground biomass causing plant collapse, 2) boat wakes eroding creek banks, 3) pollution or disease affecting plant health, 4) substrate hardness controlling herbivorous crab distributions and 5) trophic dysfunction releasing herbivorous crabs from predator control. To distinguish between these hypotheses we quantified these variables at 14 Narragansett Bay salt marshes where die-off intensity ranged from |5% to nearly 98%. Nitrogen availability, wave intensity and plant growth did not explain any variation in die-off. Herbivory explained 73% of inter-site variation in die-off and predator control of herbivores and substrate hardness also varied significantly with die-off. This suggests that salt marsh die-off is being largely driven by intense herbivory via the release of

Large herbivores such as sheep affect plants directly and indirectly through selective foraging, trampling, urination and defecation, thereby modifying intra- and interspecific interactions and altering resource availability for plants. Tolerance and resistance are the main means by which plants cope with herbivores. How herbivores change the relative abundance of tolerant and resistant species has large impact on long-term ecosystem productivity, and the possibility of using plant functional groups to make general predictions is currently a key topic. The ability to express tolerance and resistance will depend on herbivore selectivity and on grazing frequency and intensity, factors that are all dependent on herbivore density. Most studies of grazing focus on effects on the plant community composition, and either compare sites of contrasting herbivore densities or use small-scale exclosure experiments, thus comparing only two levels of grazing despite theories often predicting non-linear ...

With the assistance of plant extracts, the facile synthesis of three-dimensional (3D) porous LaCoO3 perovskite is reported at a lower calcination temperature of 500 °C. The formation mechanism is carefully studied by investigating the different roles of organic and inorganic components in Cacumenplatycladi extract. The results indicate that organic components (mainly phenolic acids) function as the similar complex species of citric acid, while the mineral nutrients (Na+, K+, Ca2+, and Mg2+) together with NO3- serve as combustion-aid agents even with trace amounts. Moreover, the biosynthesized LaCoO3 has a high surface area of 32.5 m2 g-1 and exhibits excellent catalytic performance for benzene oxidation. Benzene of 1000 ppm can achieve a stable conversion above 90% at 285 °C in a continuous run for 80 h (weight-hourly space velocity (WHSV) = 40 000 mL g-1 h-1). It can be attributed to the bio-LaCoO3 with more electrophilic adsorption of oxygen species and 3D porous structure.. ...

In nature, plants engage in a never-ending battle to avoid being eaten. Unable to run away, plant species have evolved defenses to deter herbivores; they have spines, produce nasty chemicals, or grow tough leaves that are difficult to chew. For years, scientists have assumed that herbivores and plants are locked into evolutionary competition in which a plant evolves a defense, the herbivore evolves a workaround, and so on.. New research led by the University of Utah challenges this paradigm of an evolutionary arms race.. The study analyzed multiple species of Inga, a genus of tropical trees that produces defensive chemicals, and their various insect herbivores. The researchers found that closely-related plants evolved very different defensive traits. Additionally, their analysis revealed that herbivores may drive evolution of plant defenses, but may not show coevolutionary adaptations. Instead, they may chase plants based on the herbivores own traits at the time they encounter a new ...

2016 Gijsbert Werner. Plants, microbes and markets: Evolution and maintenance of belowground cooperation. 2015 Colin Khoury. The conservation and use of crop genetic resources for food security. 2014 Aaron Velez Ramirez. Continuous light on tomato: from gene to yield. 2013 Erik Wijnker. Meiotic recombination and its implications for plant breeding. 2012 Ronnie de Jonge. The role and evolution of fungal effectors in plant pathogenisis. 2011 Wouter Kohlen. Regulation of biosynthesis and transport of strigolactones and their effect on plant development.. 2010 Klaas Bouwmeester. The interplay between a Phytophthora RXLR effector and an Arabidopsis lectin receptor kinase. 2009 Veronica Grieneisen. Dynamics of auxin patterning in plant morphogenesis.. 2008 Erik Poelman. Linking variation in plant defence to biodiversity at higher trophic levels: a multidisciplinary approach.. 2007 Roxina Soler Gamborena. Plant-mediated multitrophic interactions between aboveground and belowground insects.. 2006 Jochem ...

ABSTRACT: While ocean acidification has different effects on herbivores and autotrophs, how acidification may influence herbivory is poorly understood. This study examined how grazing by the gastropod Lacuna vincta (hereafter Lacuna) on the macroalgae Ulva spp. (hereafter Ulva) is influenced by ocean acidification. Herbivory by Lacuna was significantly reduced under elevated partial pressure of carbon dioxide ( pCO2; 1500-2000 µatm) relative to ambient pCO2 (~400 µatm). This significant decrease in herbivory was unrelated to the physiological status of Ulva but rather was specifically elicited when Lacuna was exposed to elevated pCO2 in the absence of food for 18 to 24 h prior to grazing Ulva. The negative effects of elevated pCO2 on Lacuna were absent at 400 to 800 µatm pCO2 or when fed but persisted for up to 72 h following a 24 h exposure to elevated pCO2 without food. Depressed respiration rates in Lacuna following exposure to high pCO2 without food indicated these conditions produced ...

Because individual plants are unable to relocate, they are subject to extreme selection by the insects feeding upon them. One means by which plants suppress herbivory is to produce toxic compounds to deter feeding (see the Perspective by Hare). Agrawal et al. (p. 113) compared pesticide-treated or untreated evening primroses. Over 5 years of pesticide treatment, the production of defensive chemicals in the fruit reduced and flowering times shifted, and the primroses competitive ability against dandelions improved. Züst et al. (p. 116) examined large-scale geographic patterns in a polymorphic chemical defense locus in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and found that it is matched by changes in the relative abundance of two specialist aphids. Thus, herbivory has strong and immediate effects on the local genotypic composition of plants and traits associated with herbivore resistance. ...

The genus Nicotiana is ideally suited to study polyploidy because of its robust phylogenetic framework and the genus contains a large number of polyploid species (approx 40% are allopolyploids). Nicotiana attenuata is a diploid species which is thought to be involved in the formation of several of these allopolyploids, particularly in the formation of N. bigelovii and N. clevelandii (allotetraploid descendants of the ancestors of N. attenuata and N. trigonophylla). Our research focuses on understanding how the anti-herbivore defense system, as well as pollination, germination and growth systems modified after neo-polyploidization and polyploidy speciation, using synthetic and natural polyploids ...

Solanum exhibits great morphological and reproductive diversity and many species of the genus have been used as model organisms for the examination of many biological questions. Some examples of these include investigations of the developmental evolution of leaf shape (Sinha, 1997; Bharathan et al., 2002), fruit morphology and chemistry (Cipollini et al., 2002; Knapp, 1986), a wide variety of floral syndromes including zygomorphy and heterandry (Knapp, 2002a), derived reproductive systems such as andromonoecy and dioecy (Whalen & Costich, 1986; Anderson & Symon, 1989; Knapp et al., 1998), and the evolution of plant form, self-incompatibility, and polyploidy (e.g., Bell & Dines, 1995; Stone, 2002; Richman & Kohn, 2000). Plant-animal interactions including studies of pollination and dispersal biology as well as herbivory (particularly ithomiine butterfly larvae, which are specialist herbivores on Solanaceae) have been documented in many studies, such as Knapp (1986) and Sazima et al. (1993) for ...

The Navarros Lab studies microbial multitrophic interactions in ecosystems such as digestive tracts of insects and the rhizosphere. Our current research focuses on the study of microbial multitrophic interactions and their feedback to environmental processes in diverse ecosystems, including insects digestive tract, soil, and plant rhizosphere. Our systems of study include: The passalid beetle and…

My basic ongoing research activities include both field- and lab-based studies in three primary areas: (a) I am continuing to address the importance of non-linear dynamic interactions among species as key factors driving grasshopper population processes. Each of these research areas follows past work to some degree, but each is now going in new directions. (b) Studies in nutritional ecology, digestion as an ecological problem, and the importance of diet with imbalanced nutritional quality as a proximate limit to grasshopper secondary production (also referred to as ecological stoichiometry) are areas of active research. These efforts focus primarily on insect herbivory using grasshoppers as a model. (c) Finally, I am interested in what might be called comparative grassland ecology with an emphasis on herbivores in general. I desire to link my current and past interests within the general context of grazing systems, including both native grazers (bison) and cattle. I continue research in the ...

张彦焯,James L.Hanula,Joe OBrien,Scott Horn,Kris Braman,&孙江华.(2013).Evaluation of the Impacts of Herbivory by Lace Bugs on Chinese Privet (Ligustrum sinense) Survival and Physiology.Biological Control,64(3),299-304 ...

Wing, Scott L. and Tiffney, B. H. 1987. The Reciprocal Interaction of Angiosperm Evolution and Tetrapod Herbivory. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 50 (1-2):179-210 ...

View Notes - 34-Herbivory to Disease from BIO 201 at SUNY Stony Brook. Fact of the day Most common infectious diseases in World (2004) * = bacterial = bacterial or viral 10. Syphilis * ~ 12.2

The use of Cool Morning treatments will improve plant quality, flower and foliage color, and plant habit, and harden the plants. Lower the temperature by 8-12°F/4-6°C 2 hours before sunrise until 2-3 hours after sunrise. Start treatments after plants are rooted in, well-branched and cover the media (reach the pot edges). To avoid delayed flowering, keep the average day temperature under a close watch and if necessary, increase night temperatures. Finishing of the crop depends on the average day temperature, and positive or negative DIF methods as well as Cool Morning can be used to improve plant quality. ...

Background: Maize (Zea mays L.) leaves damaged by lepidopteran herbivores emit a complex volatile blend that can attract natural enemies of the herbivores and may also have roles in direct defense and inter-or intra-plant signaling ...

Herbivores are animals that eat only plants. Examples of herbivores include grasshoppers, rabbits, and deer. All of these animals and insects obtain all of their nutrition and energy needs from plant...

Scientists fear that the decline of the worlds largest herbivores, especially in Africa and parts of Asia, could lead to an empty landscape in some of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet, according to a new study.

By clicking the image you will get an image with higher resolution.. The metabolic enzymes, which are involved in alkaloid biosynthesis, are excellent models to study evolutionary dynamics of proteins. As part of secondary metabolism, they are subject to rapid changes, because plants should deal with an army of herbivores, which themselves adapt to the plants defense - a classic ecologic phenomenon described as the plant-herbivore arms race. Based on this phenomenon, only plants that evolve through mutations new traits to warn of herbivores will survive.. One special type of mutations is central to our research: gene duplication. Many of the above-mentioned enzymes, that are involved in alkaloid biosynthesis, originated from a duplication. We are particularly interested in the following questions: how can duplicated genes gain new functions? Which molecular mechanisms are shaping a duplicated gene? Presently, by studying the evolution of the PA-biosynthesis specific homospermidine synthase ...

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A good example is that of a monkey, much stronger than a human normaly is because it doesnt have the same built in to prevent damage to the body mental limiters as we do.. No. Im sorry, as a biologist I have to tell you that is total nonsense. a) Apes (and monkeys, but lets talk about apes because they are roughly the same size as humans) are several times stronger than humans, because their skeletal musculature is stronger at a molecular level. A human muscle fiber needs to be several times the diameter of an apes muscle fiber to exert the same force. Somewhere in our hominid evolutionary history when our ape ancestors diverged from the common ancestor we share with chimpanzees, we acquired a point mutation in a gene that codes for muscle proteins. Humans effectively suffer from amyosthenia (muscle weakness) compared to apes. But this disadvantage not only survived but spread through the gene pool because it forced the hominids to rely on tools to hunt and prepare food, and fire to cook raw ...

A good example is that of a monkey, much stronger than a human normaly is because it doesnt have the same built in to prevent damage to the body mental limiters as we do.. No. Im sorry, as a biologist I have to tell you that is total nonsense. a) Apes (and monkeys, but lets talk about apes because they are roughly the same size as humans) are several times stronger than humans, because their skeletal musculature is stronger at a molecular level. A human muscle fiber needs to be several times the diameter of an apes muscle fiber to exert the same force. Somewhere in our hominid evolutionary history when our ape ancestors diverged from the common ancestor we share with chimpanzees, we acquired a point mutation in a gene that codes for muscle proteins. Humans effectively suffer from amyosthenia (muscle weakness) compared to apes. But this disadvantage not only survived but spread through the gene pool because it forced the hominids to rely on tools to hunt and prepare food, and fire to cook raw ...

Induced plant defense against pests and diseases encompasses a wide variety of mechanisms, ranging from deposition of callose-rich papillae to accumulation of biocidal defense metabolites. Defensive metabolites can be synthesized de novo in response to microbe or insect attack, such as phytoalexins, but can also be produced constitutively and stored as an inactive form in the plant cell. These so-called phytoanticipins can be activated by β-glucosidase activity during herbivory, which allows for a rapid release of biocidal aglycone metabolites (VanEtten et al., 1994; Morant et al., 2008). Well-characterized examples of phytoanticipins are glucosinolates (GSs), which can be hydrolyzed by endogenous β-thioglucoside glucohydrolases, called myrosinases. Although GSs have traditionally been associated with defense against herbivores, recent insights have revealed that they can also play a role in resistance against microbes. For instance, Bednarek et al. (2009) demonstrated in Arabidopsis ...

A way I do it on the island is I go on herbivore island and I use a shot gun and hatchet but you can use what ever works for you and I kill tons of ankys Im on mobile you will have to test it on other versions it may not work or work the same or better ...

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Freshwater herbivores include mollies, pacu and most species of plecostomus. Mollies are small livebearers similar to guppies, while pacus are large egg-layers that are similar to the red belly...

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Threatened by urbanization, recreational development, non-native plants, road maintenance, and herbivory. See Lindleyana 5(4):205-211 (1990) for original description, and The Wild Orchids of California, p. 134-135 (1995) by R. Coleman for species account. ...

1. Both foliar and root herbivory can alter the exudation of carbon from plant roots, which in turn can affect nitrogen availability in the soil. However, few studies have investigated the effects of herbivory on N fluxes from roots, which can directly increase N availability in the soil and uptake by neighbouring plants. Moreover, the combined effects of foliar and root herbivory on N fluxes remains unexplored. 2. We subjected the legume white clover (Trifolium repens L.) to defoliation (through clipping) and root herbivory (by an obligate root-feeding nematode, Heterodera trifolii Goggart) to examine how these stresses individually, and simultaneously, affected the transfer of T. repens-derived N to neighbouring perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) plants using 15N stable-isotope techniques. We also examined the effects of defoliation and root herbivory on the size of the soil microbial community and the growth response of L. perenne. 3. Neither defoliation nor root herbivory negatively ...

Glucosinolates are plant secondary metabolites composed of a thioglucose group and an amino acid side-chain. They occur in the Brassicaceae and related families. A wide variety of glucosinolates exists owing to modification of the side-chain structure. Following tissue damage, myrosinase enzymes catalyse the decomposition of glucosinolates to a variety of volatile and nonvolatile products. The genetic control of concentration and side-chain modification of aliphatic glucosinolates, which have side-chains derived from methionine, are simple and well known from work on Arabidopsis and Brassica crops. In controlled conditions in the laboratory or in field trials, many aliphatic glucosinolates, or their degradation products, affect the behaviour of herbivores. For these reasons, we suggest that polymorphism for aliphatic glucosinolates in natural populations offers an attractive system for the study of ecological genetics of plant-herbivore interactions.

Transgenic lines of silver birch (Betula pendula) carrying the sugar beet chitinase IV gene were used to study the effects of the heterologous expression of a transgenic chitinase on the performance of lepidopteran herbivores. The effect of wo...

Optimal levels of anti-herbivore defence are determined not only by grazing pressure on the target plant, but also by the efficiency of the defence and by competitive interactions with neighbours. In the high Arctic on Svalbard, grazing by reindeer is a process that can be modelled without plant-to-herbivore feedback, as reindeer population sizes are not correlated with plant growth. However, growing conditions are extreme: a short season and low temperatures inhibit optimal growth. Therefore, it is possible to model anti-herbivore defence in competition in this system, assess how its optimum depends on grazing intensity and defence efficiency, and, finally, how global climate change will effect plant-plant interactions. This model, based on a Lotka-Volterra type competition and temperature-dependent growth, indicates that competition is of considerable importance even in extreme environments. Herbivory mediates displacement of the defended plant by releasing it from competition. This process is ...

Traditional aquaculture has to a large extent used herbivore species with limited requirements for additional feeding. However, in intensive aquaculture production one farm carnivore species like salmon and also feeds herbivore species with fishmeal as this increase growth. This has lead to a growing concern that increased aquaculture production poses an environmental threat to the species targeted in reduction fisheries as increased demand increase fishing pressure. In this paper we address this question along two lines. First, under which management regimes may increased demand pose a threat to the species in question. Second, we investigate what is the market for fishmeal. Is fishmeal a unique product or is it a part of the larger market for oilmeals which includes soyameal? This is an important issue since the market structure for fishmeal is instrumental for whether increased aquaculture production may affect fishmeal prices, and thereby increase fishing pressure in industrial fisheries ...

Food web complexity is thought to weaken the strength of terrestrial trophic cascades1,2,3 in which strong impacts of natural enemies on herbivores cascade to influence primary production indirectly4. Predator diversity can enhance food web complexity because predators may feed on each other and on shared prey5,6,7. In such cases, theory suggests that the impact of predation on herbivores relaxes and cascading effects on basal resources are dampened8,9. Despite this view, no empirical studies have explicitly investigated the role of predator diversity in mediating primary productivity in a natural terrestrial system10,11. Here we compare, in a coastal marsh community, impacts of arthropod predators on herbivores and plant productivity between a simple food web with a single predator species and a complex food web with a diverse predator assemblage. We show that enhancing predator diversity dampens enemy effects on herbivores and weakens trophic cascades. Consequently, changes in diversity at higher

Plants allocate defences in order to decrease costs and maximize benefits against herbivores. The Optimal Defense Theory (ODT) predicts that continuously expressed (i.e. constitutive) defences are expected in structures of high value, whereas defences that are expressed or that increase their expression only after damage or upon risk of damage (i.e. induced defences) are expected in structures of low value. Although there are several studies evaluating ODT predictions, few studies have successfully tested them as a way of measuring ecological investment in extrafloral nectary (EFN)-mediated ant-plant interactions. Here we compared extrafloral nectar production and ant attractiveness to EFNs located on vegetative versus reproductive plant structures onQualea multifloraplants subjected to different levels of simulated herbivory. We then addressed the following predictions emerging from the ODT: (a) extrafloral nectar produced in inflorescence EFNs will have higher volumes and calories and will ...

Predators and parasitoids are important natural enemies of herbivorous insects. By reducing the abundance of herbivores, they can help protect plants from damage. Parasitoids in particular can use herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) as host-searching cues [1, 2]. Such volatile-mediated tritrophic interactions have a considerable potential to shape ecosystem dynamics [3], but it remains unclear to what extend the plant signals are emitted by the plant to specifically attract natural enemies of herbivores [4]. If HIPVs are indeed emitted by the plant to attract the third tropic level, specificity of the signals should be an important aspect of the interactions [5]. This is particularly relevant under natural conditions, where plants are often attacked by non-hosts or by multiple herbivores simultaneously. While specialist parasitoids can distinguish between plants attacked by hosts and plants attacked by non-hosts using HIPV cues [6], the impact of non-hosts feeding on the same plant as the ...

Management of feral and Mouflon sheep and feral goats within the Mauna Kea Forest Reserve/Game Management area has been criticized as inadequate to prevent the adverse environmental impact which these introduced herbivores have on native components of the scrub forest ecosystem. This study determined the intensity of bark stripping of mamane (Sophora chrysophylla), a small endemic leguminous tree, by these animals and assessed the impact of their browsing on the size class structure of mamane stands. In all but one of the 4 areas sampled, a high proportion of mamane trees bore bark stripping wounds. Differences in the amount of stripping between elevations in a given area, and between areas, were attributed to differences in browsing pressure, which in turn was dependent on the frequency of human disturbance and the behavioral traits of the herbivores. Tree size class distributions revealed that browsing has suppressed mamane reproduction in some areas. Suppression appeared to be the greatest in ...

Lasienthra africanum (LA) leaf extract was employed for nano-silver synthesis. The reducing effect of the plant extract was investigated at different times, pH, temperatures and concentrations. The effect of various kinetic parameters was studied using UV-vis spectroscopy. Blue-shifted surface plasmon bands indicating smaller sized nanoparticles were obtained at neutral pH (6.8-7.0), temperature of 65°C and concentration ratio of 1:10 (leaf extract: AgNO3) with increasing reaction times under the reaction conditions. The kinetics of the reaction followed pseudo-first- and -second-order rate equations, and was thermodynamically favoured at higher time. Spherically shaped nanoparticles were obtained at different reaction conditions ...

Autumn, winter, spring or summer, Yosemite is magical. Giant granite spires and waterfalls, blue skies and clear air -- its practically in Southern Californias own backyard. The Times Mark Boster spent a year photographing this most majestic of national parks, visiting favorite spots, studying the nature around him and watching the seasons unfold with their own special beauty.. More on Yosemite National Park:. Yosemite: My special place, a photographers journal. Yosemite National Park, in winters grip. Witness to rebirth in Yosemite during spring. Finding solitude in Yosemite during summer. What to bring on a trip to Yosemite. Tips for photographing Yosemite. Yosemite: How to get there and where to stay. ...

Nicotiana attenuata[5] INSECT HERBIVORES[3] ARABIDOPSIS-THALIANA[3] SIGNAL-TRANSDUCTION[3] DEFENSE[2] defense[2] PLANT-RESPONSES[2] ORAL SECRETIONS[2] DITERPENE GLYCOSIDES[2] CROSS-TALK[2] GENE-EXPRESSION[2] herbivore[2] MANDUCA-SEXTA[2] jasmonic acid[2] insect[2] ...

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6785/13/20 Herbivory of an invasive slug is affected by earthworms and the composition of plant communities Results Slug herbivory was significantly affected by both earthworms and plant species composition. Slugs damaged 60% less leaves when earthworms were present, regardless of the species composition of the plant communities. Percent leaf area consumed by slugs was 40%…

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This book is about disease and death. It is an ecologists view of Darwins vivid evocation of Nature, red in tooth and claw. An international team of authors examines broad patterns in the population biology of natural enemies, and addresses general questions about the role of natural enemies in the population dynamics and evolution of their prey. For instance, how do large natural enemies like wolves differ from small natural enemies like bacterial diseases in their effects on prey abundance? Is it better to chase after prey, or sit and wait for it to come to you? How should prey behave in order to minimize the risk of being eaten? The answers are all in this fascinating senior undergraduate/postgraduate text.

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With a name like Herbivore Botanicals, you can already imagine all the plant based goodness to be found in this companys line of natural beauty, skin care, and body products. Herbivore Botanicals, founded by a husband and wife team in 2011, started in a Seattle kitchen and has grown to become an internationally recognized natural beauty brand with an extensive line of skin care products.. The Herbivore Botanicals commitment is simple. To create safe beauty products that dont sacrifice performance for toxic chemicals. Herbivore Botanicals has worked tirelessly to harness the power of nature that they infuse into their highly effective skin care products. A big difference between the way that Herbivore Botanicals approaches their skin care formulations from other natural based brands is the focus on only using ingredients for a specific purpose to solve a specific need. This means, within the Herbivore Botanicals product line you wont find any fillers or synthetic ingredients inside.. Today, ...

Stimulation of forest productivity by elevated concentrations of CO2 is expected to partially offset continued increases in anthropogenic CO2 emissions. However, multiple factors can impair the capacity of forests to act as carbon sinks ; prominent among these are tropospheric O3 and nutrient limitations1,2. Herbivorous insects also influence carbon and nutrient dynamics in forest ecosystems, yet are often ignored in ecosystem models of forest productivity.. Voir en ligne : http://bit.ly/1wXVa4B ...

The use of Cool Morning treatments will improve plant quality, flower and foliage color, and plant habit, and harden the plants. Lower the temperature by 8-12°F/4-6°C 2 hours before sunrise until 2-3 hours after sunrise. Start treatments after plants are rooted in, well-branched and cover the media (reach the pot edges). To avoid delayed flowering, keep the average day temperature under a close watch and if necessary, increase night temperatures. Finishing of the crop depends on the average day temperature, and positive or negative DIF methods as well as Cool Morning can be used to improve plant quality. ...

Chemical ecology began with the study of plant-insect interactions. In the nineteenth century, biologists began to realize the profound importance of plant chemistry in determining herbivore choice. Given that plants are the primary source of food in terrestrial ecosystems, the role of plant metabolites in herbivore choice and performance translates to a role in structuring ecological communities. This work describes natural variation in volatile and non-volatile herbivore-induced metabolites in the native tobacco /Nicotiana attenuata/, and experiments to test the defensive functions of some of these metabolites in nature. The variation described includes natural variation among accessions in herbivore-induced signaling cascades and metabolite production, as well as complex metabolic variation in a class of terpenoid specialized metabolites, the 17-hydroxygeranyllinalool diterpene glycosides (HGL-DTGs), in response to herbivore-induced signaling. I dissect the contribution of herbivore-induced ...

Baby tapirs are some of the most adorable and engaging animals on Earth! There are four species of tapir, and the babies of all species are marked with their distinguishing spots and stripes. The stripes on our beaded baby tapir do not match those of any particular species, so you can imagine its whichever species you like best. Baby tapirs are quite friendly and lovable. They can stand and walk almost immediately, and they quickly begin to explore their world with amusing curiosity. It takes a gestation period of about 13 months for a pair to produce one baby. Can you believe that? Its one of the longest gestation periods among mammals. Even horses give birth after about 11 months. Because only one baby is born per pregnancy, and because the gestation period is so long, the tapirs are said to have a long recruitment period. This means that for every tapir that is killed in the wild (or that dies of natural causes), it takes a very long time to replace that animal. This is one reason why ...

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Forister ML, Novotny V, Panorska AK, Baje L, Basset Y, Butterill PT, Cizek L, Coley PD, Dem F, Diniz IR, Drozd P, Fox M, Glassmire AE, Hazen R, Hrcek J, Jahner JP, Kaman O, Kozubowski TJ, Kursar TA, Lewis OT, Lill J, Marquis RJ, Miller SE, Morais HC, Murakami M, Nickel H, Pardikes NA, Ricklefs RE, Singer MS, Smilanich AM, Stireman JO, Villamarín-Cortez S, Vodka S, Volf M, Wagner DL, Walla T, Weiblen GD, Dyer LA. The global distribution of diet breadth in insect herbivores. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Jan 13; 112(2):442-7 ...

Okay so Im thinking about living in and around Yosemite this summer as much as I can however I have yet to do any trad climbing. I have done some sport and know my way around the gear pretty well but I am dying to learn some trad. Does anybody have any advice on how to sort of go about doing that at Yosemite? Also, I would be alone so I would need to meet people, hopefully ones who could teach me. Or should I take a class? What do I do? I JUST WANT TO CLIMB and Yosemite seems like such a classic place to be. ...

When a tree is being defoliated by an insect herbivore, it will emit gaseous volatiles. Do these volatiles attract predators of the insect? Significantly so, it seems.

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If you have ancillary papers, upload those to the dropbox individually and create separate links. Finally, send a note to the Systematics Listserv letting everyone know that a paper is available. Introductory PowerPoint/KeyNote Presentation: Introduce your topic with a 10- to 15-minute PowerPoint or KeyNote presentation. Dedicate at least 2/3 of that time to placing the subject into the broader context of the subject areas/themes and at most 1/3 of it introducing paper, special definitions, taxa, methods, etc. Never exceed 15 minutes. (For example, for a reading on figs and fig-wasps, broaden the scope to plant-herbivore co-evolution.). Add images, include short movie clips, visit web resources, etc. to keep the presentation engaging. Although your presentation should not be a review of the primary reading, showing key figures from the readings may be helpful (and appreciated). You may also want to provide more detail and background about ancillary readings which likely have not been read by ...

Classical or self-sustaining biological control is the use of imported natural enemies to suppress pests. Self-sustaining biological...

Attachment to the mother and siblings on the one hand and the man on the other hand is the basis for the development of social relations. The necessary proximity to attachment figures allows the puppy to observe and then to mimic social behavior alteration. He thus learns a number of social rituals, basis of a healthy social communication. This position of pet is therefore essential from a simple pet.. We must keep in mind the specificities of communication of each for a good relationship and resist the urge to do one with her pet. This is in recognition of the difference that the identity of each will be recognized.. The pets are pets. The fundamental difference between the livestock and pets is the concept of territoriality. Herbivores are not attached to a territory. They remain only if the food is sufficient, otherwise they move. These animals tolerate a high concentration inside their living space as long as the food is sufficient.. Carnivores like the man are territorial animals, they need ...

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The Tapir looks like a pig, but resembles a horse. They have a long nose used for grabbing leaves, branches and twigs. Learn more facts at WildRepublic.com.

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‌Dr. Kristen Cecala (Biology) and Callie Oldfield (C15 Biology) used these data to model the drivers of deer browse across the landscape. They compared the effects of features related to topography, forest edge, and deer culls on sapling density in 2012 and 2015. They found that features related to topography were the most important in predicting deer herbivory impacts on the landscape, followed by forest edge and then deer culls.. We believe the drainages in the unusually steep bluff topography of the Cumberland Plateau act as a funnel for deer, Dr. Evans says, Because of the unique topography of this area, we cannot assume that deer browse impacts will be homogenous across this landscape - they may be concentrated in areas of high deer traffic onto the plateau.. Dr. Chris Van De Ven (Earth and Environmental Systems), Meg Armistead, and Callie Oldfield examined the spatial patterns of sapling density using GIS and produced a predictive map of sapling densities across the Domain.. ...

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The intimate associations between plants and the insects that eat them have helped define and shape both groups for millions of years. This pioneering volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of the evolutionary biology of herbivorous insects, including their relationships with host plants and natural enemies.

Polonium radiohalos found in biotite flakes of granites in Yosemite National Park place severe time constraints on the formation and cooling of the granite plutons.

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Most plant families are distinguished by characteristic secondary metabolites, which can function as putative defence against herbivores. However, many herbivorous insects of different orders can make

Aphis picridicola (Hawkbit root aphid). Identification, biology, distribution, host plants, natural enemies, damage caused. Creative commons images.

Digital Morphology account of a fossil tapir, Hesperaletes borineyi, featuring CT-generated animations of the skull and expert commentary by Dr. Matthew Colbert

Digital Morphology account of Bairds tapir, Tapirus bairdii, featuring CT-generated animations of the skull and commentary by Dr. Matthew Colbert

When the enemy advances, we retreat. If the enemys forces were weaker than ours, he would not dare advance and attack us. So, when he advances toward us, we can conclude that the enemy is certainly coming with superior force and is acting according to plan and with preparation. It is, therefore, appropriate for us to evade his vanguard, by withdrawing beforehand. If we meet with the enemy in the course of our march and either do not have clear information regarding him or know that his army is stronger than ours, we should, without the slightest hesitation, carry out a precautionary withdrawal.. As to the place to which we should withdraw, it is not appropriate to go long distances along the main roads, so that the enemy follows us to the end. We should move about sinuously in the nearby area, winding around in circles. If the enemy appears ahead of us, we should circle around to his rear; if the enemy is on the mountains, we should descend into the valleys; if the enemy is in the middle, we ...