Search for top-down and bottom-up drivers of latitudinal trends in insect herbivory in oak trees in Europe

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60077344:_____/21:00538944 RIV/62156489:43410/21:43918905

Result on the web

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.13244" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.13244</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.13244" target="_blank" >10.1111/geb.13244</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Search for top-down and bottom-up drivers of latitudinal trends in insect herbivory in oak trees in Europe

Original language description

Aim The strength of species interactions is traditionally expected to increase toward the Equator. However, recent studies have reported opposite or inconsistent latitudinal trends in the bottom-up (plant quality) and top-down (natural enemies) forces driving herbivory. In addition, these forces have rarely been studied together thus limiting previous attempts to understand the effect of large-scale climatic gradients on herbivory. Location Europe. Time period 2018-2019. Major taxa studied Quercus robur. Methods We simultaneously tested for latitudinal variation in plant-herbivore-natural enemy interactions. We further investigated the underlying climatic factors associated with variation in herbivory, leaf chemistry and attack rates in Quercus robur across its complete latitudinal range in Europe. We quantified insect leaf damage and the incidence of specialist herbivores as well as leaf chemistry and bird attack rates on dummy caterpillars on 261 oak trees. Results Climatic factors rather than latitude per se were the best predictors of the large-scale (geographical) variation in the incidence of gall-inducers and leaf-miners as well as in leaf nutritional content. However, leaf damage, plant chemical defences (leaf phenolics) and bird attack rates were not influenced by climatic factors or latitude. The incidence of leaf-miners increased with increasing concentrations of hydrolysable tannins, whereas the incidence of gall-inducers increased with increasing leaf soluble sugar concentration and decreased with increasing leaf C : N ratios and lignins. However, leaf traits and bird attack rates did not vary with leaf damage. Main conclusions These findings help to refine our understanding of the bottom-up and top-down mechanisms driving geographical variation in plant-herbivore interactions, and indicate the need for further examination of the drivers of herbivory on trees.

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

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Global Ecology and Biogeography

ISSN

1466-822X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

30

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

651-665

UT code for WoS article

000603605000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85098324233