The impact of insect herbivory on biogeochemical cycling in broadleaved forests varies with temperature

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00027073%3A_____%2F24%3AN0000063" target="_blank" >RIV/00027073:_____/24:N0000063 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-50245-9" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-50245-9</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50245-9" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41467-024-50245-9</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The impact of insect herbivory on biogeochemical cycling in broadleaved forests varies with temperature

Original language description

Herbivorous insects alter biogeochemical cycling within forests, but the magnitude of these impacts, their global variation, and drivers of this variation remain poorly understood. To address this knowledge gap and help improve biogeochemical models, we established a global network of 74 plots within 40 mature, undisturbed broadleaved forests. We analyzed freshly senesced and green leaves for carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and silica concentrations, foliar production and herbivory, and stand-level nutrient fluxes. We show more nutrient release by insect herbivores at non-outbreak levels in tropical forests than temperate and boreal forests, that these fluxes increase strongly with mean annual temperature, and that they exceed atmospheric deposition inputs in some localities. Thus, background levels of insect herbivory are sufficiently large to both alter ecosystem element cycling and influence terrestrial carbon cycling. Further, climate can affect interactions between natural populations of plants and herbivores with important consequences for global biogeochemical cycles across broadleaved forests. This study examines the impact of herbivorous insects on biogeochemical cycling within forests. From a global network of 74 plots within 40 mature, undisturbed broadleaved forests, they show that background levels of insect herbivory are sufficiently large to alter both ecosystem element cycling and influence terrestrial carbon cycling.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10616 - Entomology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS

ISSN

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e-ISSN

2041-1723

Volume of the periodical

15

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

6011

UT code for WoS article

001272173500023

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85199090867