Plant phylogeny drives arboreal caterpillar assemblages across the Holarctic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60076658:12310/20:43901330

Result on the web

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.7005" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.7005</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7005" target="_blank" >10.1002/ece3.7005</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Plant phylogeny drives arboreal caterpillar assemblages across the Holarctic

Original language description

Using a Holarctic dataset of exposed‐feeding and shelter‐building caterpillars, we aimed at showing how phylogenetic relationships among host plants explain compositional changes and characteristics of herbivore assemblages. Our plant–caterpillar network data derived from plot‐based samplings at three different continents included >28,000 individual caterpillar–plant interactions. We tested whether increasing phylogenetic distance of the host plants leads to a decrease in caterpillar assemblage overlap. We further investigated to what degree phylogenetic isolation of a host tree species within the local community explains abundance, density, richness, and mean specialization of its associated caterpillar assemblage. The overlap of caterpillar assemblages decreased with increasing phylogenetic distance among the host tree species. Phylogenetic isolation of a host plant within the local plant community was correlated with lower richness and mean specialization of the associated caterpillar assemblages. Phylogenetic isolation had no effect on caterpillar abundance or density. The effects of plant phylogeny were consistent across exposed‐feeding and shelter‐building caterpillars. Our study reveals that distance metrics obtained from host plant phylogeny are useful predictors to explain compositional turnover among hosts and host‐specific variations in richness and mean specialization of associated insect herbivore assemblages in temperate broadleaf forests. As phylogenetic information of plant communities is becoming increasingly available, further large‐scale studies are needed to investigate to what degree plant phylogeny structures herbivore assemblages in other biomes and ecosystems.

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

2020

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Ecology and Evolution

ISSN

2045-7758

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

24

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

14137-14151

UT code for WoS article

000586782100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85096713018