scholarly journals Negating the plant apparency model: rigorous tests are the fuel of progress

2016 ◽  
Vol 210 (3) ◽  
pp. 770-771 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark E. Hay
Keyword(s):  
Plant Apparency

Plant Apparency and Evolutionary Escape from Insect Herbivory

1991 ◽  
Vol 138 (3) ◽  
pp. 729-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. S. Chew ◽  
S. P. Courtney
Keyword(s):  
Insect Herbivory ◽  
Plant Apparency

Scarlet gilia resistance to insect herbivory: the effects of early season browsing, plant apparency, and phytochemistry on patterns of seed fly attack

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Juenger ◽  
Timothy C Morton ◽  
Rick E Miller ◽  
Joy Bergelson
Keyword(s):  
Insect Herbivory ◽  
Early Season ◽  
Scarlet Gilia ◽  
Plant Apparency

scholarly journals Does plant apparency matter? Thirty years of data provide limited support but reveal clear patterns of the effects of plant chemistry on herbivores

2016 ◽  
Vol 210 (3) ◽  
pp. 1044-1057 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela M. Smilanich ◽  
R. Malia Fincher ◽  
Lee A. Dyer
Keyword(s):  
Plant Chemistry ◽  
Limited Support ◽  
Plant Apparency

scholarly journals Insect folivory in Didymopanax vinosum (Apiaceae) in a vegetation mosaic of Brazilian cerrado

2006 ◽  
Vol 66 (2b) ◽  
pp. 671-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. M. Varanda ◽  
M. P. Pais
Keyword(s):  
Decisive Role ◽  
Sensu Stricto ◽  
Leaf Damage ◽  
Leaf Toughness ◽  
Scattered Trees ◽  
Insect Activity ◽  
Observed Damage ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Plant Apparency ◽  
The Relationship

Susceptibility of Didymopanax vinosum (Apiaceae) to insect herbivores was investigated in three sites of a cerrado mosaic - composed of campo cerrado (a grassland with scattered trees and shrubs), cerradão (a tall woodland) and cerrado sensu stricto (intermediate between the two) - situated in Cerrado Pé-de-Gigante, Santa Rita do Passa Quatro, SP, Brazil. We also examined the relationship of folivory with the composition and abundance of the insect herbivore fauna, and with several nutritional and defensive plant characteristics (water, nitrogen, cellulose, lignin, tannin leaf contents, and leaf toughness). We collected insects associated with D. vinosum every month, and we measured leaf damage every three months. In general, the annual folivory differed among sites. It reached the highest rates in site 1 and site 3: 7.33 and 8.5 percent, respectively. Only 1.32 percent of annual folivory was observed in site 2. These levels resulted from the higher abundance, in sites 1 and 3, of the thrips Liothrips didymopanacis (Phlaeothripidae), the most abundant herbivore sampled, responsible for more than 90 percent of the observed damage. However, no significant relationship was found between insect activity and the chemical and physical composition of the leaves. Our findings suggest that, at least in this species, other chemical compounds or variables related to plant apparency and resource availability to herbivores (e.g. plant architecture) might play a more decisive role in the spatial variation of folivory than the nutritional and defensive traits that were analyzed.

Plant apparency drives leaf herbivory in seedling communities across four subtropical forests

Oecologia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Martini ◽  
S. Tharanga Aluthwattha ◽  
Christos Mammides ◽  
Mohammed Armani ◽  
Uromi Manage Goodale
Keyword(s):  
Subtropical Forests ◽  
Plant Apparency ◽  
Leaf Herbivory

Chewing sandpaper: grit, plant apparency, and plant defense in sand-entrapping plants

Ecology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 97 (4) ◽  
pp. 826-833 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric F. LoPresti ◽  
Richard Karban
Keyword(s):  
Plant Defense ◽  
Plant Apparency

scholarly journals Global pattern of plant utilization across different organisms: Does plant apparency or plant phylogeny matter?

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 2535-2545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohua Dai ◽  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Jiasheng Xu ◽  
Kevin J. Duffy ◽  
Qingyun Guo
Keyword(s):  
Global Pattern ◽  
Plant Phylogeny ◽  
Plant Utilization ◽  
Plant Apparency

scholarly journals Plant apparency, an overlooked driver of associational resistance to insect herbivory

2013 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. 418-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bastien Castagneyrol ◽  
Brice Giffard ◽  
Christelle Péré ◽  
Hervé Jactel
Keyword(s):  
Insect Herbivory ◽  
Associational Resistance ◽  
Plant Apparency

scholarly journals Mechanisms of plant–plant interactions: concealment from herbivores is more important than abiotic-stress mediation in an African savannah

2014 ◽  
Vol 281 (1780) ◽  
pp. 20132647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison M. Louthan ◽  
Daniel F. Doak ◽  
Jacob R. Goheen ◽  
Todd M. Palmer ◽  
Robert M. Pringle
Keyword(s):  
Abiotic Stress ◽  
Stress Reduction ◽  
Relative Strength ◽  
Plant Interactions ◽  
Large Herbivore ◽  
Reduction Mechanisms ◽  
Plant Apparency ◽  
Herbivore Communities ◽  
Central Kenya ◽  
Plant Plant

Recent work on facilitative plant–plant interactions has emphasized the importance of neighbours’ amelioration of abiotic stress, but the facilitative effects of neighbours in reducing plant apparency to herbivores have received less attention. Whereas theory on stress reduction predicts that competition should be more important in less stressful conditions, with facilitation becoming more important in harsh environments, apparency theory suggests that facilitation should be greater in the presence of herbivores, where it is disadvantageous to be conspicuous regardless of abiotic stress level. We tested the relative strength of neighbours’ stress reduction versus apparency reduction on survival, growth, reproduction and lifetime fitness of Hibiscus meyeri , a common forb in central Kenya, using neighbour removals conducted inside and outside large-herbivore exclosures replicated in arid and mesic sites. In the absence of herbivores, neighbours competed with H. meyeri in mesic areas and facilitated H. meyeri in arid areas, as predicted by stress-reduction mechanisms. By contrast, neighbours facilitated H. meyeri in the presence of herbivory, regardless of aridity level, consistent with plant apparency. Our results show that the facilitative effects arising from plant apparency are stronger than the effects arising from abiotic stress reduction in this system, suggesting that plant-apparency effects may be particularly important in systems with extant large-herbivore communities.

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