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Decreased losses of woody plant foliage to insects in large urban areas are explained by bird predation
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SYSNO ASEP 0479294 Druh ASEP J - Článek v odborném periodiku Zařazení RIV J - Článek v odborném periodiku Poddruh J Článek ve WOS Název Decreased losses of woody plant foliage to insects in large urban areas are explained by bird predation Tvůrce(i) Kozlov, M.V. (FI)
Lanta, Vojtěch (MBU-M)
Zverev, V. (FI)
Rainio, K. (FI)
Kunavin, M.A. (RU)
Zvereva, E.L. (RU)Zdroj.dok. Global Change Biology. - : Wiley - ISSN 1354-1013
Roč. 23, č. 10 (2017), s. 4354-4364Poč.str. 11 s. Jazyk dok. eng - angličtina Země vyd. US - Spojené státy americké Klíč. slova ant predation ; background insect herbivory ; bird predation Vědní obor RIV EE - Mikrobiologie, virologie Obor OECD Microbiology Institucionální podpora MBU-M - RVO:61388971 UT WOS 000410642100032 EID SCOPUS 85029280777 DOI 10.1111/gcb.13692 Anotace Despite the increasing rate of urbanization, the consequences of this process on biotic interactions remain insufficiently studied. Our aims were to identify the general pattern of urbanization impact on background insect herbivory, to explore variations in this impact related to characteristics of both urban areas and insect-plant systems, and to uncover the factors governing urbanization impacts on insect herbivory. We compared the foliar damage inflicted on the most common trees by defoliating, leafmining and gall-forming insects in rural and urban habitats associated with 16 European cities. In two of these cities, we explored quality of birch foliage for herbivorous insects, mortality of leafmining insects due to predators and parasitoids and bird predation on artificial plasticine larvae. On average, the foliage losses to insects were 16.5% lower in urban than in rural habitats. The magnitude of the overall adverse effect of urbanization on herbivory was independent of the latitude of the locality and was similar in all 11 studied tree species, but increased with an increase in the size of the urban area: it was significant in large cities (city population 1-5 million) but not significant in medium-sized and small towns. Quality of birch foliage for herbivorous insects was slightly higher in urban habitats than in rural habitats. At the same time, leafminer mortality due to ants and birds and the bird attack intensity on dummy larvae were higher in large cities than in rural habitats, which at least partially explained the decline in insect herbivory observed in response to urbanization. Our findings underscore the importance of top-down forces in mediating impacts of urbanization on plant-feeding insects: factors favouring predators may override the positive effects of temperature elevation on insects and thus reduce plant damage. Pracoviště Mikrobiologický ústav Kontakt Eliška Spurná, eliska.spurna@biomed.cas.cz, Tel.: 241 062 231 Rok sběru 2018
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