Coastal exotic plant serves as a habitat for a notorious wetland pest in unfavorable seasons: A case study of exotic Spartina alterniflora in China DOI Creative Commons
Tianping Xu, Xu Ma, Yunjing Li

et al.

Frontiers in Marine Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 11

Published: Sept. 23, 2024

Coastal biological invasions pose a wide-reaching threat to various ecosystems, affecting both vegetation and herbivores in native communities. Although often exert strong top-down control on vegetation, the impact of invasive species consumers that strongly regulate invaded ecosystems remains unclear. Therefore, through field surveys feeding preference experiments, this study examined effects Spartina alterniflora Loisel. (hereafter, Spartina) moth Laelia coenosa Hübner ), notorious pest has been documented cause significant damage Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. ) marshes coastal wetlands China. Field showed larvae were more abundant had higher grazing rates than summer, but these patterns reversed autumn. Feeding experiments consistently dietary switched from summer autumn, likely because longer growing season relatively nutritional quality Thus, by providing shelters (i.e., sources habitats) during unfavorable seasons, may facilitate insect potentially amplify its wetland vegetation. Our work reveals novel, indirect mechanism invasion impacts highlights importance incorporating seasonal variation plant-herbivore interactions.

Language: Английский

Mini-review on invasive plants in tropical countries and the effects of salinity DOI
Leslie Hernández-Fernández, José Gerardo Vázquez, Roberto González–De Zayas

et al.

Biologia, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 17, 2025

Language: Английский

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Coastal exotic plant serves as a habitat for a notorious wetland pest in unfavorable seasons: A case study of exotic Spartina alterniflora in China DOI Creative Commons
Tianping Xu, Xu Ma, Yunjing Li

et al.

Frontiers in Marine Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 11

Published: Sept. 23, 2024

Coastal biological invasions pose a wide-reaching threat to various ecosystems, affecting both vegetation and herbivores in native communities. Although often exert strong top-down control on vegetation, the impact of invasive species consumers that strongly regulate invaded ecosystems remains unclear. Therefore, through field surveys feeding preference experiments, this study examined effects Spartina alterniflora Loisel. (hereafter, Spartina) moth Laelia coenosa Hübner ), notorious pest has been documented cause significant damage Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. ) marshes coastal wetlands China. Field showed larvae were more abundant had higher grazing rates than summer, but these patterns reversed autumn. Feeding experiments consistently dietary switched from summer autumn, likely because longer growing season relatively nutritional quality Thus, by providing shelters (i.e., sources habitats) during unfavorable seasons, may facilitate insect potentially amplify its wetland vegetation. Our work reveals novel, indirect mechanism invasion impacts highlights importance incorporating seasonal variation plant-herbivore interactions.

Language: Английский

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0