The influence of warming on the biogeographic and phylogenetic dependence of herbivore-plant interactions.

ABSTRACT: Evolutionary experience and the phylogenetic relationships of plants have both been proposed to influence herbivore-plant interactions and plant invasion success. However, the direction and magnitude of these effects, and how such patterns are altered with increasing temperature, are rarely studied. Through laboratory functional response experiments, we tested whether the per capita feeding efficiency of an invasive generalist herbivore, the golden apple snail, Pomacea canaliculata, is dependent on the biogeographic origin and phylogenetic relatedness of host plants, and how increasing temperature alters these dependencies. The feeding efficiency of the herbivore was highest on plant species with which it had no shared evolutionary history, that is, novel plants. Further, among evol

SUBMITTER: Mu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6392400 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature