Insect Defoliation and Nitrogen Cycling in Forests

By G. Lovett, L. Christenson, Peter M. Groffman, Clive G. Jones, Julie Hart, M. Mitchell. 2002

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Ecosystem Consequences of Biological Invasions (2010, background): “Invasive insect her bivores directly increase litter fluxes and alter the timing of their inputs to soil (Lovett et al. 2002, Stadler et al. 2006).”
Economic Impacts of Non-Native Forest Insects in the Continental United States (2011, background): “For instance, by causing tree mortality, defoliation and reduced growth of their hosts, nonnative forest insects can have important direct and cascading effects on non-market ecosystem services such as water and air quality, nutrient cycling, climate regulation, disease control, and recreation and c”
Positive and negative impacts of insect frass quality on soil nitrogen availability and plant growth (2011, background): “Frass of herbivorous insects contains more labile carbon (C) than does leaf litter (Lovett et al. 2002).”
Carbon and nitrogen cycling immediately following bark beetle outbreaks in southwestern ponderosa pine forests (2008, background): “... dynamics, soil characteristics, dead woody debris, soil organisms, carbon allocation, and species composition have been documented across many ecosystems and types of insect disturbance (Swank et al., 1981; Schultz and Baldwin, 1982; Seastedt and Crossley, 1984; Hollinger, 1986; Scholwalter et a”
Ecological effects of invasive alien insects (2008, background): “Effects on North American oak forests by L. dispar defoliation have been extensively investigated (see review in Lovett et al. 2002, 2006).”
Multi-year ecosystem response to hemlock woolly adelgid infestation in southern New England forests (2008, background): “This material is then immobilized and redistributed in the system or mineralized and potentially lost from the system (Lovett et al. 2002).”
Direct and indirect effects of alien insect herbivores on ecological processes and interactions in forests of eastern North America (2010, background): “Subsequent studies have confirmed the potential for gypsy moth defoliation to alter biogeochemistry of both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems through increased inputs of DWD, green litter fall, frass, and their corpses (Lovett et al. 2002).”
The interaction of plant genotype and herbivory decelerate leaf litter decomposition and alter nutrient dynamics (2005, background): “…year (Cyr and Pace 1993, Cebrian 1999), the effects of herbivore- altered litterfall, microclimate, throughfall, honeydew and frass can make important contributions to soil nutrient dynamics (Seastedt and Crossley 1984, Bardgett and Wardle 1998, Schowalter 2000, Hunter 2001, Lovett et al. 2002).”