14 research outputs found
Neither the devil nor the deep blue sea: larval mortality factors fail to explain the abundance and distribution of Tischeria ekebladella
No full textVertical distribution of nitrifying populations in bacterial biofilms from a full-scale nitrifying trickling filter
No full textSpatial distribution of banana skipper (Erionota thrax L.) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) and its parasitoids in a Cavendish banana plantation, Penang, Malaysia
No full textDrought stress differentially affects leaf-mining species
No full text1. The impact of climate change on phytophages is difficult to predict, due in part to variation between species in their responses to factors such as drought stress. Here, the hypothesis that several species within the leaf-mining feeding guild will respond in a consistent way to changes in rainfall patterns is tested, using a manipulative field experiment. 2. Summer drought, enhanced summer rainfall, and control treatments were imposed on a calcareous grassland community, and the responses of five leaf-mining species were assessed. 3. One leaf-mining species was more abundant under enhanced rainfall, one was more abundant under drought, and the other three species showed no consistent response to the rainfall treatments. Higher parasitism levels under drought may partly explain the response of one species (Stephensia brunnichella) to the treatments. 4. These results show that generalisations relating to drought stress impacts cannot be drawn at the feeding guild level for leaf-mining insects
Tritrophic interactions and trade-offs in herbivore fecundity on hybridising host plants
No full textWhat limits the altitudinal distribution of Craspedolepta species (Sternorrhyncha: Psylloidea) on fireweed?
No full textEffects of nutrients and parasitism on the density of a salt marsh planthopper suppressed by within-trophic-level interactions
No full textSelection of large host plants for oviposition by a monophagous leaf beetle: nutritional quality or enemy-free space?
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