INSECT HERBIVORY INCREASES LITTER QUALITY AND DECOMPOSITION: AN EXTENSION OF THE ACCELERATION HYPOTHESIS

By S. Chapman, S. Hart, N. Cobb, T. Whitham, G. Koch. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Insect Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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The Value of Animal Behavior in Evaluations of Restoration Success (2008, background): “Arthropods are important herbivores and pollinators (e.g., Coley & Barone 1996; Balvanera et al. 2005) and affect decomposition processes (e.g., Chapman et al. 2003).”
Natural enemies and environmental factors affecting the population dynamics of the gypsy moth (2013, background): “On the other hand, defoliation and frass decomposition can influence the soil nutrient dynamics (Hollinger 1986; Chapman et al. 2003).”
Is tropical montane forest heterogeneity promoted by a resource-driven feedback cycle? Evidence from nutrient relations, herbivory and litter decomposition along a topographical gradient (2015, background): “Herbivory strongly influences nutrient cycling and ecosystem productivity (Chapman et al. 2003; Metcalfe et al. 2014).”
Grazing history effects on above- and below-ground litter decomposition and nutrient cycling in two co-occurring grasses (2008, background): “Such indirect effects of plant genotypic variation on ecosystem-level processes have been recently documented for various systems with insect herbivory (Madritch and Hunter 2002; Chapman et al. 2003; Schweitzer et al. 2005).”
The impact of precipitation change on nitrogen cycling in a semi-arid ecosystem (2014, background): “For example, during periods of stress, pi~nons drop their needles, which increases litter bio- mass accumulation beneath their crowns (Chapman et al. 2003).”
The interaction of plant genotype and herbivory decelerate leaf litter decomposition and alter nutrient dynamics (2005, background): “…of arthropod herbivores on ecosystem processes commonly find that herbivores accelerate nutrient cycling through a variety of mechanisms (Ritchie et al. 1998, Hunter 2001, Chapman et al. 2003), while examples of arthropod herbivores decelerating nutrient cycling in ecosystems are less common.”
Evolution of plant materials for ecological restoration: insights from the applied and basic literature (2017, background): “Moth and needle-scale herbivory in Pinus edulis has been shown to alter ecosystem-level traits such as decomposition rate (Classen et al. 2007) and nutrient flow (Chapman et al. 2003; Classen et al. 2013).”
Positive and negative impacts of insect frass quality on soil nitrogen availability and plant growth (2011, background): “…to soil (Frost and Hunter 2004, 2007; Fonte and Schowalter 2005), modification of litter quality due to selective feedings (Belovsky and Slade 2000; Schmitz 2009), and induced responses 360 of plants following herbivory (Chapman et al. 2003; Schweitzer et al. 2005; Chapman 2006; Kay et al. 2008).”
Nonadditive effects of mixing cottonwood genotypes on litter decomposition and nutrient dynamics (2005, background): “For example, herbivory on green leaves can alter translocation of nutrients before senescence, leading to leaf litter with higher nitrogen (N) concentrations (Cobb and Orwig 2002, Chapman et al. 2003).”
Deadly combination of genes and drought: increased mortality of herbivore‐resistant trees in a foundation species (2009, background): “Given that moth resistance and susceptibility also had pronounced effects on the associated community (Whitham et al., 2003) and ecosystem processes (Chapman et al., 2003; Classen et al., 2005, 2007), changes in the distribution of moth resistant and sus- *Data from Mueller et al. (2005b).”