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Abstract

Determinants of Diversity of Caterpillars, Leaf Miners, and Gallers on Individual Oak Trees in a Forest †

by
Freerk Molleman
1,*,
Urszula Walczak
1,
Iwona Melosik
2 and
Andreas Prinzing
3
1
Department of Systematic Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 6, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
2
Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Experimental Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 6, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
3
Ecosystèmes Biodiversité Evolution (ECOBIO), Campus de Beaulieu, Université de Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes, France
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
†
Presented at the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Diversity (IECD 2022)—New Insights into the Biodiversity of Plants, Animals and Microbes, 15–31 March 2022; Available online: https://sciforum.net/event/IECD2022.
Biol. Life Sci. Forum 2022, 15(1), 25; https://doi.org/10.3390/IECD2022-12360
Published: 14 March 2022
(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Diversity (IECD 2022)—New Insights into the Biodiversity of Plants, Animals and Microbes)
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Abstract

:
The community of insect herbivores on individual host trees may depend on the history of the hosts—from ongoing ontogeny via recent microevolution to ancient phylogeny—but the relative importance of these scales remains unknown. We sampled spring caterpillars, leaf mines, and leaf galls from sessile oaks (Quercus petraea) in a forest in western Poland. We assessed the effect of individual tree neighborhood, tree size, and budburst phenology, as well as genetic traits on insect herbivore diversity and community composition. Overall, our results show that different scales of history act simultaneously and do so differently in different functional groups.

Supplementary Materials

The presentation material can be downloaded at: https://www.mdpi.com/article/10.3390/IECD2022-12360/s1.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization, F.M., A.P. and U.W.; methodology, F.M., I.M. and U.W.; formal analysis, F.M.; data curation, F.M.; writing—original draft preparation, F.M.; funding acquisition, F.M. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

Grant No. 2018/29/B/NZ8/00112 National Science Centre (Poland).

Institutional Review Board Statement

Not applicable.

Informed Consent Statement

Not applicable.

Data Availability Statement

Data on acterpillars are included in DOI: 10.3390/insects13040367, others unpublished.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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Molleman, F.; Walczak, U.; Melosik, I.; Prinzing, A. Determinants of Diversity of Caterpillars, Leaf Miners, and Gallers on Individual Oak Trees in a Forest. Biol. Life Sci. Forum 2022, 15, 25. https://doi.org/10.3390/IECD2022-12360

AMA Style

Molleman F, Walczak U, Melosik I, Prinzing A. Determinants of Diversity of Caterpillars, Leaf Miners, and Gallers on Individual Oak Trees in a Forest. Biology and Life Sciences Forum. 2022; 15(1):25. https://doi.org/10.3390/IECD2022-12360

Chicago/Turabian Style

Molleman, Freerk, Urszula Walczak, Iwona Melosik, and Andreas Prinzing. 2022. "Determinants of Diversity of Caterpillars, Leaf Miners, and Gallers on Individual Oak Trees in a Forest" Biology and Life Sciences Forum 15, no. 1: 25. https://doi.org/10.3390/IECD2022-12360

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