Does flooding favour galling insects?

Ribeiro, Kátia Torres; Madeira, João A.; Monteiro, Ricardo Ferreira

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2311.1998.00162.x

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“…arcticornis Hymenoptera galler abundance Price et al 2004 Salix myrsinifolia P. aestiva Hymenoptera galler abundance Price et al 2004 Salix lasiolepis P. pacifica Hymenoptera galler abundance Prittinen et al 2003 Betula pendula several sp. Lepidoptera chewer abundance Raman and Abrahamson 1995 Solidago altissima Rhopalomyia solidaginis Diptera galler abundance Rehill and Schultz 2001 Hamamelis virginiana Hormaphis hamamelidis Homoptera galler abundance, survivorship Ribeiro et al 1998 Calophyllum brasiliense Lopesia sp. Diptera galler abundance Roininen et al 1997 Populus balsamifera Phyllocolpa sp.…”

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Size does matter: variation in herbivory between and within plants and the plant vigor hypothesis

Cornelissen

Fernandes²,

Vasconcellos‐Neto³

2008

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The plant stress and plant vigor hypotheses (PVH) are two of the most widely recognized hypothesis invoked to explain differential distribution of insect herbivores among their host plants. In both cases, the emphasis is on bottomÁup processes (i.e. host-plant quality), but a recent meta-analytical review of the literature has shown that the plant stress hypothesis might have limited support among insect herbivores. In this study, we conducted a meta-analysis of the effects of plant vigor on insect herbivore abundance and survivorship by reviewing 71 published articles that explicitly tested the PVH and enabled 161 independent comparisons. Z-transform was used as the metric to standardize the results of all independent comparisons. Our quantitative results have shown that Hymenoptera (sawflies) was the most abundant group in the reviewed studies, representing 28.1% of the independent comparisons, followed by Diptera (25.1%) and Homoptera (22.6%). Amongst all the guilds studied, gall-formers were the most representative group (68.0%), whereas leaf-miners and stem-borers were underrepresented (less than 4.0% of the available comparisons). Insect herbivores were significantly more abundant on more vigorous plants (E'' 00.6432, CI 00.7558Á0.7280), but no significant effect was detected on herbivore survivorship. When herbivores were categorized into feeding guilds, effects of plant vigor on herbivore abundance were stronger for sap-suckers, leaf-miners and gall-formers. Our results have shown a strong herbivore preference for more vigorous plants, although our results do not support a preferenceÁperformance linkage.An increased number of studies in plantÁherbivore interactions have recognized that intra-plant heterogeneity affects both the distribution and the performance of herbivorous insects (Schultz 1983, Strong et al. 1984, Crawley and Akhteruzzaman 1988. The plant stress and plant vigor hypotheses are two of the most widely recognized hypotheses invoked to explain heterogeneous distributions of herbivores among their host plants (Williams and Cronin 2004). The plant stress hypothesis (PSH) proposed by White (1984) argues that herbivore abundance is higher on stressed host plants due to an increased availability of nutrients, a decreased concentration of defensive compounds and/or changes in the ratio of nutrients to chemical defenses. Evidence supporting the prediction that moderate stress benefits herbivores due to increased nutritional quality are abundant (McClure 1980, Lewis 1984, Mattson and Haack 1987 and positive relationships between insect herbivory and plant stress have been found for some tree species, crops and herbaceous plants (Mattson and Haack 1987, Heinrichs 1988). Nevertheless, some authors claim that experimental tests of the PSH have generated conflicting results (Bultman and Faeth 1987, Louda and Collinge 1992, Koricheva et al. 1998, De Bruyn et al. 2002, and many authors (Larson 1989, Koricheva et al. 1998) have championed the abandonment of the PSH and the search for alternative hypothes...

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Size does matter: variation in herbivory between and within plants and the plant vigor hypothesis

Cornelissen

Fernandes²,

Vasconcellos‐Neto³

2008

Oikos

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147

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“…natural enemies, host richness, plant structural complexity, host density) and abiotic factors (e.g. hygrothermal stress, scleromorphic environments and soil fertility) have been invoked to explain GFI species richness (Fernandes and Price 1991, Lara and Fernandes 1996, Wright and Samways 1996, 1998, Ribeiro et al 1998, Oyama et al 2003).…”

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Spatial patterns of herbivory by gall‐forming insects: a test of the soil fertility hypothesis in a Mexican tropical dry forest

Cuevas‐Reyes¹,

Quesada²,

Siebe³

et al. 2004

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It has been proposed that fertile soils reduce the incidence of gall‐forming insect (GFI) species in plant communities. This is known as the soil fertility hypothesis. The main objective of this study was to analyze the spatial distribution of GFI species under different habitats in a tropical dry forest at the Chamela‐Cuixmala Biosphere Reserve, Mexico. Eight habitats which differ in soil type, topography, nutrient availability and vegetation were chosen. We found that 38 GFI species specialize on their host plant species. GFI species richness was negatively correlated with phosphorous and nitrogen availability. Using phosphorous as an indicator of soil fertility, we found low frequency and density of GFI on fertile soils. Our study indicates that soil fertility is one of the factors that negatively affects the patterns of spatial distribution of species richness, incidence and abundance of GFI at the community level in two different ways: i) indirectly affecting GFI species richness in plants adapted to infertile soils and ii) directly affecting GFI responses to plant traits of hosts found in a fertility gradient.

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“…Ribeiro et al (1998) reported higher gall abundances and higher frequencies of galled leaves on ßooded Calophyllun brasiliense Camb. plants than on unßooded plants, an effect perhaps attributable to an increase in leaf size on ßooded plants.…”

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“…Several other examples of changes in arthropod herbivory following ßooding are present in the literature (Watt 1986, Goyer and Chambers 1996, Ribeiro et al 1998). Ribeiro et al (1998) reported higher gall abundances and higher frequencies of galled leaves on ßooded Calophyllun brasiliense Camb.…”

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Flooding Influences Ovipositional and Feeding Behavior of the Rice Water Weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Stout¹,

Riggio²,

Zou³

et al. 2002

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The rice water weevil, Lissorhoptrus oryzophilus Kuschel, is the most destructive insect pest of rice in the United States. As part of an effort to develop strategies to manage this pest, the ovipositional and feeding habits of L. oryzophilus on rice plants subjected to different flooding treatments were characterized in greenhouse studies. Presence and depth of flood had a direct influence on the ovipositional behavior of weevils in no-choice studies. More eggs were found in flooded plants than in unflooded plants. Moreover, plants flooded to a depth of 5.1 cm received more eggs than plants flooded to depths of 1.3 or 10.2 cm. Presence and depth of flood influenced both the proportion of females that oviposited in plants and the number of eggs laid by those females that did oviposit. In choice studies, female weevils showed a marked ovipositional preference for plants flooded to a depth of 10.2 cm over unflooded plants and plants flooded to a depth of 1.3 cm. In separate choice experiments, adult rice water weevils fed more on flooded plants than on unflooded plants. In a third set of experiments, flooded plants were taller and had higher concentrations of 10 of 13 plant nutrients than unflooded plants. Thus, flooding may influence rice water weevil behavior both directly, by acting as a stimulus for feeding or oviposition, and indirectly, by inducing changes in the suitability of rice plants for feeding or oviposition. These data suggest that it may be possible to manipulate populations of weevils in rice by changing water management practices.

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Does flooding favour galling insects?

Cited by 21 publications

References 15 publications

Size does matter: variation in herbivory between and within plants and the plant vigor hypothesis

Size does matter: variation in herbivory between and within plants and the plant vigor hypothesis

Spatial patterns of herbivory by gall‐forming insects: a test of the soil fertility hypothesis in a Mexican tropical dry forest

Flooding Influences Ovipositional and Feeding Behavior of the Rice Water Weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

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