Plant volatiles and priority effects interactively determined initial community assembly of arthropods on multiple willow species.

ABSTRACT: Plant traits, which are often species specific, can serve as environmental filtering for community assembly on plants. At the same time, the species identity of the initially colonizing arthropods would vary between plant individuals, which would subsequently influence colonizing arthropods and community development in the later stages. However, it remains unclear whether interindividual divergence due to priority effects is equally important as plant trait-specific environmental filtering in the initial stages. In this study, we propose that plant volatile organic compounds (PVOCs) may play a crucial role as an environmental filter in the initial stages of community assembly, which can prevent the community assembly process from being purely stochastic. To test this hypothesis, we conduct

SUBMITTER: Yoneya K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10364932 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature