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- Insects have the highest biodiversity of any multicellular organisms with an estimated 5.5 (2.6–7.8) million species, and around half of these are herbivores that live and feed on a host plant (Stork, 2018). This makes insect herbivore–host plant associations among the world’s most ubiquitous interspecific interactions.
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Apr 26, 2023 · While most insect–plant interactions are antagonistic, some insect lineages are both pollinators and herbivores of their host plants, so they impart both costs and benefits. In nursery pollination mutualisms, adult female insects pollinate the plant, but their offspring feed on and destroy some seeds.
- 26 April 2023
- 104, Issue7
Oct 24, 2016 · Although interactions among insect herbivores take place on individual host plants, many herbivores feed on multiple plants over their lifetime, and variation in plant quality is known to affect the population growth of herbivores that move among hosts (Underwood 2004, 2009).
- David W. McNutt, Nora Underwood
- 10
- 2016
- 24 October 2016
Jun 1, 2023 · Recent studies suggest that there are similar mutualistic interactions between different species of insect herbivores. A unique example is the plant-mediated cooperative interaction between two of the most destructive rice pests in Asia, the brown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens, and the rice striped stem borer (SSB), Chilo suppressalis.
Introduction. Interspecific interactions between insect herbivores can be either negative (competitive) or positive (facilitative) (Damman 1993, Denno et al. 1995). In the context of traditional community ecology, however, negative interactions have received the most attention (e.g., Lawton and Strong 1981, Schoener 1982, Strong et al. 1984 ...
- Robert F. Denno, Ian Kaplan
- 2007
Jul 25, 2007 · Consequently, one herbivore can induce plant defenses that impact other herbivores sharing the host-plant, independent of their phylogenetic relationship. Plant damage by sap-feeding whiteflies, for instance, elicits elevated expression of defensive proteins that negatively affect leaf-chewing caterpillars ( Inbar et al. 1999 ).
Ecological interactions among plants, insect herbivores, and parasitoids are pervasive in nature and play important roles in community assembling, but the codiversification of tri-trophic interactions has received less attention.
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