Modern approaches for leveraging biodiversity collections to understand change in plant-insect interactions

B Balmaki, MA Rostami, T Christensen… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Research on plant-pollinator interactions requires a diversity of perspectives and
approaches, and documenting changing pollinator-plant interactions due to declining insect …

Spatio‐temporal variation in plant–pollinator interactions: a multilayer network approach

S Hervías‐Parejo, P Colom, R Beltran Mas, P E. Serra… - Oikos, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the dynamic nature of communities, most research typically treated interaction
networks as static entities, and only a few analysed the spatial and the temporal scales …

Dissimilarity of species interaction networks: quantifying the effect of turnover and rewiring

T Poisot - Peer Community Journal, 2022 - peercommunityjournal.org
Despite having established its usefulness in the last ten years, the decomposition of
ecological networks in components allowing to measure their β-diversity retains some …

Intra-and interspecific diversity in a tropical plant clade alter herbivory and ecosystem resilience

A Grele, TJ Massad, KA Uckele, LA Dyer, Y Antonini… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Declines in biodiversity generated by anthropogenic stressors at both species and
population levels can alter emergent processes instrumental to ecosystem function and …

Tritrophic interaction diversity in gallery forests: A biologically rich and understudied component of the Brazilian cerrado

RS Rabelo, LA Dyer, C Lepesqueur… - Arthropod-Plant …, 2021 - Springer
Creating robust datasets of plant–insect interactions is important for understanding
ecosystem dynamics, and data on species interactions can be used to evaluate …

Variation in the strength of local and regional determinants of herbivory across the Neotropics

T Joy Massad, A Rangel Nascimento… - Oikos, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Insect herbivory can be an important selective pressure and contribute substantially to local
plant richness. As herbivory is the result of numerous ecological and evolutionary …

Plasticity in plant defense and the role of phytochemical dissimilarity in limiting specialist herbivory

RS Rabelo, LA Dyer, LF Yamaguchi, I Diniz… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Phytochemical diversity is an effective plant defensive attribute, but much more research has
focused on genetic and environmental controls of specific defensive compounds than …

Aximopsis gabrielae sp. nov.: a gregarious parasitoid (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae) of the skipper Quadrus cerialis (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) feeding on Piper …

DF Campos-Moreno, MW Gates, YM Zhang… - Journal of Natural …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Aximopsis gabrielae Zhang, Gates and Campos sp. nov. is described from
southern Mexico in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. This species is a koinobiont gregarious …

[PDF][PDF] Plant-pollinator networks are marginally less specialized and more unique in serpentine habitats, driven by lower interaction turnover and higher frequency …

RM Brennan, NM Williams - ROSS M. BRENNAN DISSERTATION, 2022 - escholarship.org
Species diversity and community similarity are the focus of considerable attention in
community ecology, particularly with regards to biodiversity gradients (Hillebrand 2004) …