| Plant-insect interaction patterns in the late Neogene palaeoforest of Chotanagpur Plateau, eastern India | |
| Hazra, Manoshi; Spicer, Robert A.; Hazra, Taposhi; Sarkar, Subhankar Kumar3; Spicer, Teresa E., V; Bera, Subir4; Khan, Mahasin Ali | |
| 2022 | |
| Source Publication | REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY
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| ISSN | 0034-6667 |
| Volume | 300Issue:xPages:- |
| Abstract | Plants and insects are essential components of terrestrial ecosystems and insect herbivory is the most important type of biotic interaction in these ecosystems alongside the role of insects as pollinators. Insect damaged fossil leaves arc the only direct sources documenting the historical effect of folivorous arthropods on once living foliar tissue. The present study focuses on the patterns of plant-insect association for the Pliocene locality of the Chotanagpur Plateau, Jharkhand, eastern India. Out of 1500 fossil angiosperm leaves that were studied, 1080 leaves (72%) were damaged. About 37 damage types (DTs) representing six functional feeding groups (FFGs) were identified, i.e., galling (50.74%), margin feeding (23.24%), hole feeding (17.04%), skeletonization (1.94%), mining (2.22%), surface feeding (3.33%) and others (1.49%). Galling is the prevalent form of damage here. The host plant taxa bearing the damage types belonged to Fabaceae, Malvaceae, Anacardiaceae, Moraceae, Rhamnaceae, Rubiaceae, Myrtaceae, etc.. On the basis of comparison with extant taxa, possible culprits could have belonged to the insect orders Orthoptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, and Hymenoptera. The evidence of numerous body fossils of Lepidoptera (caterpillar), Diptera (gall midge), and Hemiptera from our studied sedimentary section provides direct clues to the plant-insect interactions. It seems the tropical, predominantly humid, Pliocene climate favored large-scale herbivory in the palaeoforest of Jharkhand, eastern India. (C) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
| Keyword | Fossil leaves Insect damage Jharkhand Neogene Palaeoclimate Palaeoecology |
| Subject Area | Plant Sciences ; Paleontology |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2022.104633 |
| Indexed By | SCI |
| Language | 英语 |
| WOS ID | WOS:000766230200012 |
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| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | https://ir.xtbg.ac.cn/handle/353005/13072 |
| Collection | 2012年后新成立研究组 |
| Affiliation | 1.Sidho Kanho Birsha Univ, Dept Bot, Palaeobot Palynol Lab, Ranchi Rd, Purulia 723104, India 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Xishuangbanna Trop Bot Garden, CAS Key Lab Trop Forest Ecol, Mengla 666303, Peoples R China 3.Spicer, Robert A.] Open Univ, Sch Environm Earth & Ecosyst Sci, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, Bucks, England 4.Univ Kalyani, Entomol Lab, Dept Zool, Nadia 741235, W Bengal, India 5.Univ Calcutta, Dept Bot, Ctr Adv Study, 35 BC Rd, Kolkata 700019, India |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Hazra, Manoshi,Spicer, Robert A.,Hazra, Taposhi,et al. Plant-insect interaction patterns in the late Neogene palaeoforest of Chotanagpur Plateau, eastern India[J]. REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY,2022,300(x):-. |
| APA | Hazra, Manoshi.,Spicer, Robert A..,Hazra, Taposhi.,Sarkar, Subhankar Kumar.,Spicer, Teresa E., V.,...&Khan, Mahasin Ali.(2022).Plant-insect interaction patterns in the late Neogene palaeoforest of Chotanagpur Plateau, eastern India.REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY,300(x),-. |
| MLA | Hazra, Manoshi,et al."Plant-insect interaction patterns in the late Neogene palaeoforest of Chotanagpur Plateau, eastern India".REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY 300.x(2022):-. |
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