Sentences with phrase «herbivory in»

For example, they describe the unexpectedly high amounts of beetle herbivory in soybeans in response to elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide, as evidenced by FACE experiments.

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In other words, the presence of a green crab was as effective a deterrent to sesarma herbivory as actual attacks by green crabs.

«This never resulted in full protection from herbivory,» says Ralph Bock of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, «because the plant's own RNAi system prevents the accumulation of sufficient amounts of dsRNA.

Now, scientists from the Max Planck Institutes of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam - Golm and Chemical Ecology in Jena have shown that potato plants can be protected from herbivory using RNA interference (RNAi).

Ian S. Pearse, lead author on the study in the current issue of the Royal Society journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, says that, «competition for resources has often been thought to limit invasions in diverse plant communities, but herbivory could also limit these invasions.»

But Glaum and Kessler reached a different conclusion when they included herbivore - induced pollinator limitation (HIPL) in their model, which allowed them to examine broader, more indirect effects of herbivory on plant population persistence and community dynamics.

In the field, herbivory of the tomato plants was found to significantly lower pollinator visits due to the release of HI - VOCs.

Scientists of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena and the Institute of Agricultural and Nutritional Science of the Martin Luther University in Halle - Wittenberg, Germany, have now succeeded in visualizing the immediate wound or herbivory responses in plants.

In contrast, the later processes of plant regeneration such as seed predation, recruitment and herbivory, were found to be less consistently affected by humans.

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Between 1939 and 1940, in his shack journals Leopold noted the effects of deer herbivory on herbaceous plants (plants whose leaves and stems die down to soil level at the end of the growing season) and trees he had planted on his land, which included oaks (Quercus spp.) and aspens (Populus tremuloides).

The evidence bolsters an argument that Neandertals» diets spanned the spectrum of carnivory and herbivory based on the resources available to them, Laura Weyrich, a microbiologist at the University of Adelaide in Australia, and her colleagues report March 8 in Nature.

«Our native Phragmites in North America is getting hammered by both native and introduced insects, whereas the invasive Phragmites in North America suffers far less herbivory than it does in its native Europe,» she said.

J. Orrock et al., «Induced defences in plants reduce herbivory by increasing cannibalism,» Nature Ecology & Evolution, doi: 10.1038 / s41559 -017-0231-6, 2017.

«We've known for a long time that herbivores do eat other insects, but so far people studying herbivory have kind of ignored that because it's a lot easier to put herbivores in a neat bin in which they only eat plants,» says Michigan State University ecologist William Wetzel, who did not participate in the study.

I am specifically interested in behavioral adaptations of herbivorous insects that may have adaptive functions in foraging, and have begun exploring nocturnal herbivory as one potential mechanism.

Populations of parrotfish are a critical component of that herbivory, particularly since the decline of Diadema sea urchins in the early 1980s; the main causes of mortality of parrotfish are the use of fishing techniques such as spearfishing and, particularly, the use of fish traps....

Coral reef health requires an ecological balance of corals and algae in which herbivory is a key element.