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Insect herbivory and herbivores of Ficus species along a rain forest elevational gradient in Papua New Guinea

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F20%3A43901042" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/20:43901042 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/btp.12741" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/btp.12741</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/btp.12741" target="_blank" >10.1111/btp.12741</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Insect herbivory and herbivores of Ficus species along a rain forest elevational gradient in Papua New Guinea

  • Original language description

    Classic research on elevational gradients in plant-herbivore interactions holds that insect herbivore pressure is stronger under warmer climates of low elevations. However, recent work has questioned this paradigm, arguing that it oversimplifies the ecological complexity in which plant-insect herbivore interactions are embedded. Knowledge of antagonistic networks of plants and herbivores is however crucial for understanding the mechanisms that govern ecosystem functioning. We examined herbivore damage and insect herbivores of eight species of genus Ficus (105 saplings) and plant constitutive defensive traits of two of these species, along a rain forest elevational gradient of Mt. Wilhelm (200-2,700 m a.s.l.), in tropical Papua New Guinea. We report overall herbivore damage 2.4% of leaf area, ranging from 0.03% in Ficus endochaete at 1,700 m a.s.l. to 6.1% in F. hombroniana at 700 m a.s.l. Herbivore damage and herbivore abundances varied significantly with elevation, as well as among the tree species, and between the wet and dry season. Community-wide herbivore damage followed a hump-shaped pattern with the peak between 700 and 1,200 m a.s.l. and this pattern corresponded with abundance of herbivores. For two tree species surveyed in detail, we observed decreasing and hump-shaped patterns in herbivory, in general matching the trends found in the set of plant defenses measured here. Our results imply that vegetation growing at mid-elevations of the elevational gradient, that is at the climatically most favorable elevations where water is abundant, and temperatures still relatively warm, suffers the maximum amount of herbivorous damage which changes seasonally, reflecting the water availability.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    10618 - Ecology

Result continuities

  • Project

    <a href="/en/project/EE2.3.30.0006" target="_blank" >EE2.3.30.0006: The Creation of Postdoc Positions at the University of South Bohemia and the Support of Itnersectoral Mobility by Expert Stays at the Foreign Leading R&D Institutions</a><br>

  • Continuities

    P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Others

  • Publication year

    2020

  • Confidentiality

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

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Biotropica

  • ISSN

    0006-3606

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    52

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    2

  • Country of publishing house

    GB - UNITED KINGDOM

  • Number of pages

    14

  • Pages from-to

    263-276

  • UT code for WoS article

    000506925200001

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85078236813