Responses of invertebrate natural enemies to complex-structured habitats: a meta-analytical synthesis

By G. Langellotto, R. Denno. Oecologia, 2004

751 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Plant Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. S. Wratten
2. R. Denno
3. D. Finke
4. Claudio Gratton
5. B. Lin
6. S. Scarratt
7. L. Berndt
8. G. Langellotto

In Insect Science

1. R. Denno
2. S. Wratten
3. Claudio Gratton
4. B. Lin
5. S. Scarratt
6. D. Finke
7. L. Berndt
8. G. Langellotto

In Plant Science

1. R. Denno
2. Claudio Gratton
3. S. Wratten
4. S. Scarratt
5. L. Berndt
6. S. Buchholz
7. B. Lin
8. D. Finke

Citations in the corpus

• Direct and indirect effects of invasive species: Biodiversity loss is a major mechanism by which an invasive tree affects ecosystem functioning (2019, background): “Invertebrate abundance can be promoted by habitat complexity (Langellotto & Denno, 2004) and given that Baringo, Kenya, is highly disturbed, Prosopis might have increased habitat complexity.”
• Bottom-up trophic cascades and material transfer in terrestrial food webs (2005, background): “These changes may directly affect diversity and abundance of predators and parasitoids (Langellotto and Denno 2004).”
• Ground spider assemblages as indicators for habitat structure in inland sand ecosystems (2010, background): “In general, they are abundant, easy to record and inhabit a wide array of spatial and temporal niches (Wise 1993; Juen and Traugott 2004; Langellotto and Denno 2004; Romero and Vasconcellos-Neto 2005; Entling et al. 2007).”
• Habitat complexity: approaches and future directions (2011, background): “Similarly, a metaanalysis of terrestrial studies found consistent increases in predator abundance in complex habitats (Langellotto & Denno, 2004).”
• Small scale additions of native plants fail to increase beneficial insect richness in urban gardens (2011, background): “Therefore, managing gardens for predatory wasps and other natural enemies might involve allowing the accumulation of detritus structure in the form of leaf litter, which has been shown to greatly increase natural enemy abundance (Langellotto & Denno, 2004).”
• Effects of saltmarsh invasion by Spartina alterniflora on arthropod community structure and diets (2009, background): “The greatest species number, diversity and density of native insects observed in Phragmtes‐Spartina mixture suggest that plant communities with more species provided more heterogeneous habitats that can accommodate a greater array of insects (Denno et al. 2004; Langellotto and Denno 2004 ).”
• A comparison of 3 types of green roof as habitats for arthropods (2013, background): “…diverse habitats (with different vegetation layers) yield more niches, thereby increasing the diversity and abundance of animal communities (MacArthur and MacArthur, 1961; Tews et al., 2004), especially arthropods (Southwood et al., 1979; Langellotto and Denno, 2004; Mormul et al., 2011)?”
• The influence of floral resource subsidies on parasitism rates of leafrollers (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in New Zealand vineyards (2006, background): “Langellotto and Denno (2004) demonstrated through meta-analysis that when habitat structure is increased, this leads to an increase in natural enemy abundance, supporting the top-down theory that the provision of floral resource subsidies can increase parasitoid abundance through the provision of…”
• The role of habitat complexity on spider communities in native alpine grasslands of New Zealand (2013, background): “Plant architecture or physical complexity can determine spider species diversity and composition (see Uetz, 1991 and Langellotto & Denno, 2004 for reviews).”
• Restoration of Arthropod Assemblages in a Spartina Salt Marsh following Removal of the Invasive Plant Phragmites australis (2005, background): “…soil characteristics (Scatolini & Zedler 1996; Talley & Levin 2001; Levin & Talley 2002), plant quality (Gratton & Denno 2003), habitat structure (Langellotto & Denno 2004), habitat patchiness (Denno & Grissell 1979), and the presence of higher trophic levels (Posey et al. 1999; Meyer et al.…”
• Plant architecture and vegetation structure: Two ways for insect herbivores to escape parasitism (2008, background): “Also at larger spatial scales vegetation structure influences the probability that hosts and patches with hosts are found by parasitoids (Kemp & Simmons, 1978; Price et al., 1980; Finke & Denno, 2002) as well as the abundance of their natural enemies (Langellotto & Denno, 2004).”