Phylogenetic composition of host plant communities drives plant-herbivore food web structure

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60077344:_____/17:00474040 RIV/67985939:_____/17:00474040 RIV/60076658:12310/17:43895438

Result on the web

<a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2656.12646/abstract" target="_blank" >http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2656.12646/abstract</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12646" target="_blank" >10.1111/1365-2656.12646</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Phylogenetic composition of host plant communities drives plant-herbivore food web structure

Original language description

We aim to quantify the effects of host phylogeny on the structure of quantitative plant-herbivore food webs. Further, we identify specific patterns in three insect guilds with different life histories and discuss the role of host plant phylogeny in maintaining their diversity. We studied herbivore assemblages in three temperate forests in Japan and the Czech Republic. Sampling from a canopy crane, a cherry picker and felled trees allowed a complete census of plant-herbivore interactions within three 01ha plots for leaf chewing larvae, miners, and gallers. We analyzed the effects of host phylogeny by comparing the observed food webs with randomized models of host selection. Larval leaf chewers exhibited high generality at all three sites, whereas gallers and miners were almost exclusively monophagous. Leaf chewer generality dropped rapidly when older host lineages (5-80myr) were collated into a single lineage but only decreased slightly when the most closely related congeneric hosts were collated. This shows that leaf chewer generality has been maintained by feeding on confamilial hosts while only a few herbivores were shared between more distant plant lineages and, surprisingly, between some congeneric hosts. In contrast, miner and galler generality was maintained mainly by the terminal nodes of the host phylogeny and dropped immediately after collating congeneric hosts into single lineages. We show that not all levels of host plant phylogeny are equal in their effect on structuring plant-herbivore food webs. In the case of generalist guilds, it is the phylogeny of deeper plant lineages that drives the food web structure whereas the terminal relationships play minor roles. In contrast, the specialization and abundance of monophagous guilds are affected mainly by the terminal parts of the plant phylogeny and do not generally reflect deeper host phylogeny.

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

10618 - Ecology

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Journal of Animal Ecology

ISSN

0021-8790

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

86

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

556-565

UT code for WoS article

000398826400015

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85014241545