Arthropod and pathogen damage on fossil and modern plants: Exploring the origins and evolution of herbivory on land

CC Labandeira, T Wappler - Annual Review of Entomology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The use of the functional feeding group–damage type system for analyzing arthropod and
pathogen interactions with plants has transformed our understanding of herbivory in fossil …

Extinction at the end-Cretaceous and the origin of modern Neotropical rainforests

MR Carvalho, C Jaramillo, F de la Parra… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The end-Cretaceous event was catastrophic for terrestrial communities worldwide, yet its
long-lasting effect on tropical forests remains largely unknown. We quantified plant …

Ecology and evolution of gall-inducing arthropods: The pattern from the terrestrial fossil record

CC Labandeira - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Insect and mite galls on land plants have a spotty but periodically rich and abundant fossil
record of damage types (DTs), ichnotaxa, and informally described gall morphotypes. The …

Fossil leaves reveal drivers of herbivore functional diversity during the Cenozoic

J Albrecht, T Wappler, SA Fritz… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Herbivorous arthropods are the most diverse group of multicellular organisms on Earth. The
most discussed drivers of their inordinate taxonomic and functional diversity are high niche …

Tree phytochemical diversity and herbivory are higher in the tropics

L Sun, Y He, M Cao, X Wang, X Zhou, J Yang… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
A long-standing but poorly tested hypothesis in plant ecology and evolution is that biotic
interactions play a more important role in producing and maintaining species diversity in the …

Herbarium specimens reveal increasing herbivory over the past century

EK Meineke, AT Classen, NJ Sanders… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Predicting how ecological interactions will respond to global change is a major challenge.
Plants and their associated insect herbivores compose much of macroscopic diversity, yet …

Rapid recovery of Patagonian plant–insect associations after the end-Cretaceous extinction

MP Donovan, A Iglesias, P Wilf… - Nature Ecology & …, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract The Southern Hemisphere may have provided biodiversity refugia after the
Cretaceous/Palaeogene (K/Pg) mass extinction. However, few extinction and recovery …

Paleoecology, ploidy, paleoatmospheric composition, and developmental biology: a review of the multiple uses of fossil stomata

JC McElwain, M Steinthorsdottir - Plant Physiology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Paleoecology, Ploidy, Paleoatmospheric Composition, and Developmental Biology: A Review
of the Multiple Uses of Fossil Stomata | Plant Physiology | Oxford Academic Skip to Main …

Fossil insect‐feeding traces indicate unrecognized evolutionary history and biodiversity on Australia's iconic Eucalyptus

LA Giraldo, P Wilf, MP Donovan, RM Kooyman… - New …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Fossilized plant–insect herbivore associations provide fundamental information about the
assembly of terrestrial communities through geologic time. However, fossil evidence of …

Scars on fossil leaves: An exploration of ecological patterns in plant–insect herbivore associations during the Age of Angiosperms

ED Currano, LE Azevedo-Schmidt… - Palaeogeography …, 2021 - Elsevier
Ancient plant–insect herbivore associations can be studied directly through observation of
feeding damage scars on well-preserved leaf adpression fossils. Early work on insect …