Do Alien Plants Reduce Insect Biomass?

By D. Tallamy. 2004

250 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. Peter P. Marra
2. D. Narango
3. W. Shriver
4. D. Hooftman
5. Yuehua Wu
6. Bo Li
7. J. Oostermeijer
8. D. Tallamy

In Insect Science

1. W. Shriver

In Plant Science

1. W. Shriver
2. Peter P. Marra
3. Bo Li
4. D. Narango
5. D. Tallamy
6. Jia-kuan Chen
7. R. Frankham

Citations in the corpus

• Biological consequences of invasion by reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea) (2009, background): “It has been suggested that productivity of herbivorous arthropods may be so high that even in habitats completely invaded by exotic plants, ample prey may exist for predaceous arthropods (e.g., for RCG, Beaulieu and Wheeler 2002; Tallamy 2004).”
• Can alien plants support generalist insect herbivores? (2010, background): “The rapid replacement of native vegetation by plant species that evolved elsewhere (both noxious invasive species and ornamentals widely used in lieu of native species in suburban landscaping) has renewed interest in the evolutionary and ecological interactions between insect herbivores and their ho”
• Native plants improve breeding and foraging habitat for an insectivorous bird (2017, background): “Unfortunately, there are few studies that have examined whether introduced plants provide ecological niches that are equivalent to the native species that are displaced (Tallamy, 2004).”
• Are declines in insects and insectivorous birds related? (2021, background): “Not surprisingly, adaptation to non-native plant species by native insect species has been predictably slow (Tallamy 2004); even centuries after their introduction, non-native plants support on average 72% fewer insect species than do indigenous plants (Tallamy and Shropshire 2009).”
• Effects of saltmarsh invasion by Spartina alterniflora on arthropod community structure and diets (2009, background): “Therefore, any shift in species composition of plant communities may alter the resource availability and habitat properties for native consumers, and hence have profound influence on local fauna, particularly insects or arthropods in general (e.g., Tallamy 2004; Gratton and Denno 2005, 2006).”
• Impact of plant invasions on local arthropod communities: a meta‐analysis (2014, background): “Although there is previous evidence of host switching by specialists from native congeners to introduced species (Creed & Sheldon 1995; Jobin, Schaffner & Nentwig 1996), the resulting switches might typically comprise only a small percentage of the total insect fauna associated with an introduced sp”