NITROGEN LIMITATION AND TROPHIC VS. ABIOTIC INFLUENCES ON INSECT HERBIVORES IN A TEMPERATE GRASSLAND

By M. Ritchie. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Foliar nitrogen and phosphorus accumulation responses after fertilization: an example from nutrient-limited Hawaiian forests (2010, background): “Finally, foliar nutrient concentrations may have bottom-up effects in communities, influencing herbivore abundance (Ritchie 2000).”
Trophic control of grassland production and biomass by pathogens (2003, background): “However, even if this estimate were an order of magnitude too high, pathogen biomass would be comparable with insect herbivore biomass, which was 0.1–0.5 g m)2 in a similar field at the study site (Ritchie 2000).”
Experimental support for a resource-based mechanistic model of invasibility (2001, methodology): “Soil nitrate and ammonium levels (mg/kg soil) were measured from soil samples taken from all plots in August 1999 (Ritchie 2000), and the above-ground dry biomass of the resident vegetation was obtained from a 10 cm´1 m strip of vegetation harvested from each unweeded plot in August 1999.”
Obligate herbivory in an ancestrally carnivorous lineage: the giant panda and bamboo from the perspective of nutritional geometry (2015, background): “It is widely accepted that herbivores face nutritional challenges, including foods that vary in poorly digestible fibre (Milton 1979), plant-produced toxins (Rosenthal & Berenbaum 1991) and nutritionally imbalanced foods (Elser et al. 2000, 2007; Ritchie 2000).”
Agricultural management, vegetation traits and landscape drive orthopteran and butterfly diversity in a grassland–forest mosaic: a multi‐scale approach (2009, background): “Many experimental studies report a strong positive effects of N addition on orthopteran performance (e.g. Ritchie, 2000).”
Vascular plant and Orthoptera diversity in relation to grassland management and landscape composition in the European Alps (2007, background): “…in two contrasting ways: (i) highly fertilized meadows may provide a better food resource for Orthoptera because of greater N tissue concentration (Ritchie 2000); (ii) high long-term nutrient inputs create tall, dense and relatively ‘cold’ swards (Schwab et al. 2002), with strong consequences on…”
Community‐level plant palatability increases with elevation as insect herbivore abundance declines (2017, background): “Many insects are currently limited in their distribution by temperature and length of the growing season (Maclean 1983; Strathdee et al. 1993; Whittaker & Tribe 1996; Miles, Bale & Hodkinson 1997; Bird & Hodkinson 1999; Hodkinson et al. 1999; Ritchie 2000).”
Herbivore and pollinator responses to grassland management intensity along experimental changes in plant species richness (2012, background): “Nitrogen limited habitats offer minor food quality for herbivores causing a bottom-up control (Ritchie, 2000).”
Effects of insects on primary production in temperate herbaceous communities: a meta‐analysis (2003, background): “For example, systems with low productivity contain lower food supply, and plants of lower food quality and palatability (bottom-up control; Coley et al., 1985; Ritchie, 2000 ), retarding growth of insect herbivore populations, and lessening their potential to influence primary production directly (”
Up or down in space? Uniting the bottom-up versus top-down paradigm and spatial ecology (2007, background): “…variation in abiotic conditions are often mediated through trophic interactions, as is the case when abiotic factors affect host plant quality (Koricheva et al. 1998, Henriksson et al. 2003) or the population dynamics of interacting species (Ritchie 2000, Ovadia and Schmitz 2004, Tuda et al. 2006).”