Wireworms suppress spreading of the expansive weed Calamagrostis epigejos (L) Roth by feeding on its rhizomes

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2017.06.001" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2017.06.001</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2017.06.001" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ejsobi.2017.06.001</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Wireworms suppress spreading of the expansive weed Calamagrostis epigejos (L) Roth by feeding on its rhizomes

Original language description

We tested whether wireworms (Elaterid beetle larvae) prefer the expansive grass Calamagrostis epigejos to other early-successional plant species from the spoil heaps in two microcosm experiments and in a field survey of wireworm abundance and C. epigejos coverage on the spoil heaps at different topographic positions at the spontaneously revegetated sites with an undulating surface. In the first experiment, wireworms reduced rhizome biomass of C. epigejos the most out of the belowground organs of the 5 plant species, but did not affect its root biomass. In the second greenhouse experiment, wireworms negatively affected the growth of rhizomes of a growing C. epigejos, whilst they did not affect the other plant species or the aboveground biomass. In the field survey, C. epigejos coverage was lowest at the bottoms of depressions, despite the higher moisture and nutrient levels at this position. Wireworm numbers were the highest in depressions. The results of this study support the hypothesis that wirewor

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

10611 - Plant sciences, botany

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

European Journal of Soil Biology

ISSN

1164-5563

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2017

Issue of the periodical within the volume

81

Country of publishing house

FR - FRANCE

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

19-24

UT code for WoS article

000408076100003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85020434325