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Quantitative assessment of plant-artropod interactions in forest canopies: A plot-based approach
- 1.0510013 - BC 2020 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Volf, Martin - Klimeš, Petr - Lamarre, Greg P. A. - Redmond, Conor - Seifert, Carlo Lutz - Abe, T. - Auga, J. - Anderson-Teixeira, K. J. - Basset, Yves - Beckett, S. - Butterill, Philip T. - Drozd, P. - Gonzalez-Akre, E. - Kaman, Ondřej - Kamata, N. - Laird-Hopkins, Benita - Libra, Martin - Manumbor, M. - Miller, S. E. - Molem, K. - Mottl, Ondřej - Murakami, M. - Nakaji, T. - Plowman, Nichola S. - Pyszko, P. - Šigut, M. - Šipoš, Jan - Tropek, Robert - Weiblen, G. D. - Novotný, Vojtěch
Quantitative assessment of plant-artropod interactions in forest canopies: A plot-based approach.
PLoS ONE. Roč. 14, č. 10 (2019), č. článku e0222119. ISSN 1932-6203. E-ISSN 1932-6203
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GJ19-15645Y; GA ČR(CZ) GA17-23862S
EU Projects: European Commission(XE) 669609 - Diversity6continents
Institutional support: RVO:60077344 ; RVO:67985939
Keywords : canopy * arthropod * food-webs
OECD category: Ecology; Ecology (BU-J)
Impact factor: 2.740, year: 2019
Method of publishing: Open access
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0222119&type=printable
Research on canopy arthropods has progressed from species inventories to the study of their interactions and networks, enhancing our understanding of how hyper-diverse communities are maintained. Previous studies often focused on sampling individual tree species, individual trees or their parts. We argue that such selective sampling is not ideal when analyzing interaction network structure, and may lead to erroneous conclusions. We developed practical and reproducible sampling guidelines for the plot-based analysis of arthropod interaction networks in forest canopies. We quantitatively sampled arthropods from felled trees, or from trees accessed by canopy cranes or cherry pickers in 53 0.1 ha forest plots in five biogeographic regions, comprising 6,280 trees in total. We compared interaction networks derived from plot-based data to interaction networks derived from simulated non-plot-based data. All types of non-plot-based data showed highly biased network structure. Plot-based sampling thus appears to be the most rigorous approach for reconstructing realistic, quantitative plant-arthropod interaction networks that are comparable across sites and regions. We conclude that plot-based studies on canopy arthropods would yield important insights into the processes of interaction network assembly and dynamics, which could be maximised via a coordinated network of plot-based study sites.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0305332
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