ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2012
Bottom-up effects of host-plant species diversity and top-down effects of ants interactively increase plant performance.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed.
- Specific leaf area modulates but does not explain the association between abiotic stress tolerance and insect feeding guild prevalence in Northern Hemisphere woody plants.Annals of botany · 2026Article
- Testing the joint effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and ants on insect herbivory on potato plants.Planta · 2024Article
- Habitat fragmentation increases specialization of multi-trophic interactions by high species turnover.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Multitrophic arthropod diversity mediates tree diversity effects on primary productivity.Nature ecology & evolution · 2023Article
- 'Resistance Mixtures' Reduce Insect Herbivory in Strawberry (Frontiers in plant science · 2021Article
- Tree diversity increases robustness of multi-trophic interactions.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Drought and plant neighbourhood interactively determine herbivore consumption and performance.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Tree species richness attenuates the positive relationship between mutualistic ant-hemipteran interactions and leaf chewer herbivory.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Bottom-up and top-down effects of tree species diversity on leaf insect herbivory.Ecology and evolution · 2017Article
- Article
- Differential ant exclusion from canopies shows contrasting top-down effects on community structure.Oecologia · 2016Article
- Are Tree Species Diversity and Genotypic Diversity Effects on Insect Herbivores Mediated by Ants?PloS one · 2015Article
- Plant-derived differences in the composition of aphid honeydew and their effects on colonies of aphid-tending ants.Ecology and evolution · 2014Article
- Positive effects of plant genotypic and species diversity on anti-herbivore defenses in a tropical tree species.PloS one · 2014Article
- Influence of plant genetic diversity on interactions between higher trophic levels.Biology letters · 2013Article
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
While plant diversity is well known to increase primary productivity, whether these bottom-up effects are enhanced by reciprocal top-down effects from the third trophic level is unknown. We studied whether pine tree species diversity, aphid-tending ants and their interaction determined plant performance and arthropod community structure. Plant diversity had a positive effect on aphids, but only in the presence of mutualistic ants, leading to a threefold greater number of both groups in the tri-specific cultures than in monocultures. Plant diversity increased ant abundance not only by increasing aphid number, but also by increasing ant recruitment per aphid. The positive effect of diversity on ants in turn cascaded down to increase plant performance; diversity increased plant growth (but not biomass), and this effect was stronger in the presence of ants. Consequently, bottom-up effects of diversity within the same genus and guild of plants, and top-down effects from the third trophic level (predatory ants), interactively increased plant performance.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.