Incorporation of an invasive plant into a native insect herbivore food web
| Autor: | Klaas Vrieling, Barbara Gravendeel, Nils Sosef, Marco Flohil, Lúcia Pinheiro Santos Pimenta, Marjolein M Meulblok, Rutger A. Vos, Kim Meijer, Robin van de Ven, Pieter T van Duijn, Youri Lammers, Peter J. Steenbergen, Nils G. P. Beveridge, Young Hae Choi, Robert Verpoorte, Chris Smit, Kevin K. Beentjes, Leo W. Beukeboom, Menno Schilthuizen, Ralf Werring |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Smit group, Beukeboom lab |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine lcsh:Medicine Plant Science Sorbus aucuparia Generalist and specialist species 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Bird cherry Invasive species Prunus serotina 03 medical and health sciences Adaptation Herbivore biology Ecology General Neuroscience Secondary metabolites lcsh:R Insect herbivores General Medicine biology.organism_classification Evolutionary Studies 030104 developmental biology Sorbus General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Exotic plants Entomology Environmental Sciences Leaf beetle |
| Zdroj: | PeerJ, 4, e1954 PeerJ, 4:e1954. PEERJ INC PeerJ PeerJ, Vol 4, p e1954 (2016) |
| ISSN: | 2167-8359 |
| Popis: | The integration of invasive species into native food webs represent multifarious dynamics of ecological and evolutionary processes. We document incorporation of Prunus serotina (black cherry) into native insect food webs. We find that P. serotina harbours a herbivore community less dense but more diverse than its native relative, P. padus (bird cherry), with similar proportions of specialists and generalists. While herbivory on P. padus remained stable over the past century, that on P. serotina gradually doubled. We show that P. serotina may have evolved changes in investment in cyanogenic glycosides compared with its native range. In the leaf beetle Gonioctena quinquepunctata, recently shifted from native Sorbus aucuparia to P. serotina, we find divergent host preferences on Sorbus- versus Prunus-derived populations, and weak host-specific differentiation among 380 individuals genotyped for 119 SNP loci. We conclude that evolutionary processes may generate a specialized herbivore community on an invasive plant, allowing prognoses of reduced invasiveness over time. On the basis of the results presented here, we would like to caution that manual control might have the adverse effect of a slowing down of processes of adaptation, and a delay in the decline of the invasive character of P. serotina. |
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