| Ant assemblage composition explains high predation pressure on artificial caterpillars during early night | |
| Liu, Xiang1,2; Wang, Zhenghong3,4,5; Huang, Chenyu6; Li, Manru5,7; Bibi, Farkhanda5,8; Zhou, Shurong1,2; Nakamura, Akihiro7 | |
| 2020 | |
| Source Publication | ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY
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| ISSN | 0307-6946 |
| Abstract | 1. Predator-prey interactions, especially those involving herbivorous insects, are of great importance in maintaining biodiversity. Predation pressure varies temporally in response to prey availability and activity. However, little is known about the patterns and drivers of fluctuations in predation pressure at fine temporal scales. 2. Artificial caterpillars (placed on plant leaves at breast height) were used to assess changes in predation pressure across four time intervals of the day in a monsoonal tropical rainforest in south-west China. The study examined how assemblage composition of arboreal ants, the dominant predators, changed across the same time intervals. The potential linkages between biotic (arboreal ants) and abiotic (temperature and light intensity) factors with predation rate were evaluated. 3. Predation rate on caterpillars during the early part of the night (19.00-01.00 hours) was significantly higher than in the morning, afternoon, or late night. Ant assemblage composition, rather than species richness or total abundance, best explained the variations in predation rate on artificial caterpillars. 4. The results help to strengthen understanding of trophic interactions by demonstrating that predation pressure fluctuates at finer timescales than previously tested, and that a particular set of ant species may play major roles in predation on caterpillars and possibly other organisms. |
| Keyword | beta diversity diel timescale Formicidae predator-prey interactions species interactions |
| Subject Area | Entomology |
| DOI | 10.1111/een.12826 |
| Indexed By | SCI |
| Language | 英语 |
| WOS ID | WOS:000501665900001 |
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| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | https://ir.xtbg.ac.cn/handle/353005/11534 |
| Collection | 2012年后新成立研究组 |
| Affiliation | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Program Field Studies Trop Asia, Xishuangbanna Trop Bot Garden, Mengla, Yunnan, Peoples R China 2.Fudan Univ, Minist Educ, Key Lab Biodivers Sci & Ecol Engn, Coastal Ecosyst Res Stn Yangtze River Estuary, Shanghai, Peoples R China 3.Fudan Univ, Shanghai Inst Ecochongming SIEC, Shanghai, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Kunming Inst Bot, Key Lab Econ Plants & Biotechnol, Kunming, Yunnan, Peoples R China 5.World Agroforestry Ctr, East & Cent Asia, Kunming, Yunnan, Peoples R China 6.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China 7.Shanxi Univ, Inst Loess Plateau, Taiyuan, Shanxi, Peoples R China 8.Chinese Acad Sci, CAS Key Lab Trop Forest Ecol, Xishuangbanna Trop Bot Garden, Mengla 666303, Yunnan, Peoples R China 9.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Trop Plant Resources & Sustainable Use, Xishuangbanna Trop Bot Garden, Mengla, Yunnan, Peoples R China |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Liu, Xiang,Wang, Zhenghong,Huang, Chenyu,et al. Ant assemblage composition explains high predation pressure on artificial caterpillars during early night[J]. ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY,2020. |
| APA | Liu, Xiang.,Wang, Zhenghong.,Huang, Chenyu.,Li, Manru.,Bibi, Farkhanda.,...&Nakamura, Akihiro.(2020).Ant assemblage composition explains high predation pressure on artificial caterpillars during early night.ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY. |
| MLA | Liu, Xiang,et al."Ant assemblage composition explains high predation pressure on artificial caterpillars during early night".ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY (2020). |
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