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Incorporation of an invasive plant into a native insect herbivore food web.
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- A test of native plant adaptation more than one century after introduction of the invasive Carpobrotus edulis to the NW Iberian Peninsula.BMC ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Survival and Recovery of the Pine-Tree LappetInsects · 2020Article
- Decrease in Bat Diversity Points towards a Potential Threshold Density for Black Cherry Management: A Case Study from Germany.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- Bookkeeping of insect herbivory trends in herbarium specimens of purple loosestrife (Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Museum specimens provide novel insights into changing plant-herbivore interactions.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Review
- Biological collections for understanding biodiversity in the Anthropocene.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Particulate matter on two Prunus spp. decreases survival and performance of the folivorous beetle Gonioctena quinquepunctata.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2018Article
- A review and meta-analysis of the enemy release hypothesis in plant-herbivorous insect systems.PeerJ · 2016Article
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20 authors at 7 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The integration of invasive species into native food webs represent multifarious dynamics of ecological and evolutionary processes. We document incorporation of Prunus serotina (black cherry) into native insect food webs. We find that P. serotina harbours a herbivore community less dense but more diverse than its native relative, P. padus (bird cherry), with similar proportions of specialists and generalists. While herbivory on P. padus remained stable over the past century, that on P. serotina gradually doubled. We show that P. serotina may have evolved changes in investment in cyanogenic glycosides compared with its native range. In the leaf beetle Gonioctena quinquepunctata, recently shifted from native Sorbus aucuparia to P. serotina, we find divergent host preferences on Sorbus- versus Prunus-derived populations, and weak host-specific differentiation among 380 individuals genotyped for 119 SNP loci. We conclude that evolutionary processes may generate a specialized herbivore community on an invasive plant, allowing prognoses of reduced invasiveness over time. On the basis of the results presented here, we would like to caution that manual control might have the adverse effect of a slowing down of processes of adaptation, and a delay in the decline of the invasive character of P. serotina.
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