Investigating the effects of island physical factors such as island size, isolation and geological age, as well as abiotic factors, on insect herbivory for 76 plant species found across 6 archipelagos in Europe found no relationship between herbivory and island features, as well as no association between herbivory and island features.
Abstract Islands constitute excellent models to disentangle the effect of different biotic and abiotic factors generating plant size variation. However, plant size variation in terrestrial habitat islands remains unexplored. This is a meaningful gap as these insular systems are expected to have both similarities (e.g....
S. Irl, P. Eibes, Alexander M. Bürger et al.· AoB Plants· 0 citations
Abstract Parasitoid hymenopterans are highly valuable pest control agents. Despite their necessity within the agriculture industry, they remain one of the most understudied groups of insects. Non-crop habitats adjacent to farmland provide critical ecological services for these beneficial insects and can act as a corrid...
Abbe Pawluk, J. McCune, R. Laird et al.· Environmental Entomology· 0 citations
Herbivores and woody plants are dryland ecosystem engineers due to their effects on multiple ecosystem attributes. The abundance and diversity of such engineers may alter ecosystem functions directly, and indirectly, through interactions among themselves and with ecosystem productivity. We report on a study in 451 si...
Santiago Soliveres, M. Delgado-Baquerizo, D. Eldridge· Cambridge Prisms: Drylands· 0 citations
ABSTRACT The extent and causes of recent regional and global insect declines have been heavily debated, raising important arguments, primarily concerning a lack of knowledge on insect pollinators and their population trajectories. Bees are considered one of the most important groups of pollinators. Anthropogenic activi...
S. R. Howard, Kit S. Prendergast· Ecology and Evolution· 0 citations
Interactions among species are increasingly recognized as key determinants of climate change impacts on ecosystems1, 2, 3, 4–5. However, we know little about how climatic perturbations affect interactions among top vertebrate predators. Here we show that, when an emergent disease caused the decline of shared prey (rabb...
Fabrizio Sergio, Haruki Natsukawa, A. Tanferna et al.· Nature· 0 citations
The Xisha Islands in the South China Sea are a typical tropical coral archipelago at the forefront of global climate change and anthropogenic disturbance, yet their ant diversity and ecological functions remain uncharacterized. In this study, we systematically surveyed ants across seven islands, integrating morphol...
