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Figure 5 in Seasonal Abundance of Economically Important Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae) in Bangladesh, in Relation to Abiotic Factors and Host Plants

Figure 5. Distribution and mean monthly trap captures of Dacus longicornis, in relation with abiotic factors and host fruit availability.

Figure 4 in Seasonal Abundance of Economically Important Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae) in Bangladesh, in Relation to Abiotic Factors and Host Plants

Figure 4. Distribution and mean monthly trap captures of Zeugodacus cucurbitae (A) and Z. tau (B), in relation with abiotic factors and host fruit availability.

Figure 3 in Seasonal Abundance of Economically Important Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae) in Bangladesh, in Relation to Abiotic Factors and Host Plants

Figure 3. Distribution and mean monthly trap captures of Bactrocera rubigina (A) and B. correcta (B), in relation with abiotic factors.

Figure 2 in Seasonal Abundance of Economically Important Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae) in Bangladesh, in Relation to Abiotic Factors and Host Plants

Figure 2. Distribution and mean monthly trap captures of Bactrocera dorsalis (A) and B. zonata (B), in relation with abiotic factors and host fruit availability.

Figure 1. A in Seasonal Abundance of Economically Important Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae) in Bangladesh, in Relation to Abiotic Factors and Host Plants

Figure 1. A: Fruit fly trapping sites maintained at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment compound in Bangladesh in 2016–2017 (sites 1 to 10) and 2017–2018 (sites 1, 8, 9). B: Mean monthly rainfall and minimum and maximum temperature recorded in Dhaka, Bangladesh, during the study period.

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Expanding the plant economics spectrum with root nitrogen reallocation

Harnessing root nitrogen reallocation (RNR) for optimization of plant productivity commences with positioning RNR in root economics space about which we still know little. We conducted a global synthesis linking RNR to root traits, combined with a two-year 15N-labelling field experiment to position RNR in plant economics spectrum under acidification. RNR correlated negatively with specific root length (SRL) and mycorrhizal colonization globally, suggesting that RNR is a conservative trait. Sedges, grasses and forbs coordinated root traits (e.g., SRL) from acquisitive to conservative and from low to high RNR reliance (and vice versa for their direct-root N uptake) in the 15N-tracing experiment. Specifically, sedges and forbs exhibited the lowest and highest RNR that increased and decreased with acidification, respectively. Grasses cooperated well with mycorrhizas, showing moderate RNR and root traits. Our results demonstrated the significance of RNR in plant growth, and the necessity of considering RNR as a conservative trait.

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Supplementary information for D4.6 CEMCAP comparative techno-economic analysis of CO2 capture in cement plants

Supplementary information for D4.6 CEMCAP comparative techno-economic analysis of CO2 capture in cement plants

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Figure 4 in Host Plant Records for Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacini) in the Pacific Islands: 2. Infestation Statistics on Economic Hosts

Figure 4. Mean number of flies emerged per kg fruit and percent samples infested for the most infested hosts for Bactrocera facialis.

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Figure 3 A–C in Host Plant Records for Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacini) in the Pacific Islands: 2. Infestation Statistics on Economic Hosts

Figure 3 A–C. Mean number of flies emerged per kg fruit and percent samples infested for the most infested hosts for Pacific fruit fly (Bactrocera xanthodes) (A), B. curvipennis (B), B. psidii (B), and B. trilineola (C).

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Linked collectors and determiners for: ABC Useful Plants of Malawi: Economical & Commercial.

Natural history specimen data linked to collectors and determiners held within, "ABC Useful Plants of Malawi: Economical & Commercial". Claims or attributions were made on Bionomia by volunteer Scribes, <a href="https://bionomia.net/dataset/da39fadf-94c9-4d9d-ba65-64750b58cfe7">https://bionomia.net/dataset/da39fadf-94c9-4d9d-ba65-64750b58cfe7</a> using specimen data from the dataset aggregated by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, <a href="https://gbif.org/dataset/da39fadf-94c9-4d9d-ba65-64750b58cfe7">https://gbif.org/dataset/da39fadf-94c9-4d9d-ba65-64750b58cfe7</a>. Formatted as a Frictionless Data package.

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Comparative transcriptomics of tropical woody plants supports fast and furious strategy along the leaf economics spectrum in lianas

Lianas, climbing woody plants, influence the structure and function of tropical forests. Climbing traits have evolved multiple times, including ancestral groups such as gymnosperms and pteridophytes, but the genetic basis of the liana strategy is largely unknown. Here, we use a comparative transcriptomic approach for 47 tropical plant species, including ten lianas of diverse taxonomic origins, to identify genes that are consistently expressed or downregulated only in lianas. Our comparative analysis of full-length transcripts enabled the identification of a core interactomic network common to lianas. Sets of transcripts identified from our analysis reveal features related to functional traits pertinent to leaf economics spectrum in lianas, including upregulation of genes controlling epidermal cuticular properties, cell wall remodeling, carbon concentrating mechanism, cell cycle progression, DNA repair and a large suit of downregulated transcription factors and enzymes involved in ABA-mediated stress response as well as lignin and suberin synthesis. Altogether, these genes are known to be significant in shaping plant morphologies through responses such as gravitropism, phyllotaxy and shade avoidance.

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Expanding the plant economics spectrum with root nitrogen reallocation

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Comparative transcriptomics of tropical woody plants supports fast and furious strategy along the leaf economics spectrum in lianas

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Relative cover and leaf economic traits for native and non-native plants across five U.S. ecoregions

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Data from: Invertebrate phenology modulates the effect of the leaf economics spectrum on litter decomposition rate across 41 subtropical woody plant species

<ol> <li>Litter quality and decomposers are critical to carbon and nutrient cycling through litter decomposition. However, how relationships between litter quality and invertebrate detritivores change litter mass loss through time is poorly known. Species' initial leaf litter quality, as a legacy of their position on the "leaf economics spectrum" (LES), may determine the invertebrate contribution to litter mass loss. This contribution may change through time, as both population peaks of invertebrate detritivores and litter quality of given species will change through time.</li> <li>Here we introduce invertebrate phenology into a conceptual model of drivers of litter mass loss. We hypothesized that in the early decomposition period, LES can predict litter decomposability with or without a strong invertebrate contribution, i.e., litter with higher nutrient content would decompose faster. But in the later decomposition period, when higher quality litter will already have decomposed too much and lower quality litters have still been less degraded, a strong invertebrate peak would coincide with relatively more consumption of initially lower quality litters; this would lead to a hump-back relationship between leaf litter mass loss and initial LES position in this period.</li> <li>We tested our hypothesis through a one-year field decomposition experiment using leaf litter of 41 woody species in each of two sites in subtropical forest in China; only one of these sites had a strong late peak of leaf litter-feeding moth larvae in the litter layer.</li> <li>LES score of litter species had a positive linear relationship with litter mass loss before the key invertebrate consumer peaks in the litter layer. However, with the invertebrates peaking later into the decomposition process, the invertebrate consumption peaked at initially lower quality litters, which altered the species' decomposability trajectory on the LES, consistent with the hypothesized hump-back relationship between leaf litter mass loss and LES. This phenomenon resulted in a strongly reduced slope of cumulative mass loss on initial LES score across species.</li> <li>Our finding highlights the importance of considering interactions between the timing of detritivore activities and the timing of litter quality for better understanding the relationships between soil animals and ecosystem carbon and nutrient cycling.</li> </ol>

opencc-zeroMar 2020View details →

Plant biomass, not plant economics traits, determines responses of soil CO2 efflux to precipitation in the C4 grass Panicum virgatum

1. Plant responses to major environmental drivers like precipitation can influence important aspects of carbon (C) cycling like soil CO2 efflux (JCO2). These responses may be predicted by two independent classes of drivers: plant size—larger plants respire more and produce a larger quantity of labile C, and plant economics—plants possessing more acquisitive plant economics strategies (i.e., high metabolic rate and tissue nutrient content) produce higher-quality tissue that respires rapidly and decomposes quickly. 2. At two sites in central Texas, USA with similar climates and differing soil characteristics, we examined the response of eight Panicum virgatum genotypes to three annual precipitation levels defined by the driest, average, and wettest years from each site's precipitation history. We evaluated the individual and joint influence of plant genotypes and precipitation on JCO2 and traits related to plant economics and plant size. We then used confirmatory path analysis to evaluate whether effects of precipitation on JCO2 were in part related to effects of precipitation on plant economics traits or size ('mediated' effects). 3. These genotypes exhibited variation in plant economics traits and aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP), an aboveground measure of plant size. Increasing precipitation increased JCO2 and ANPP more than plant economics traits. At both sites, ANPP was the single best predictor of JCO2. Moreover, the sites differed in the ways that plant size and plant economics traits combined with precipitation to influence JCO2. At the Austin site, the positive effect of precipitation on JCO2 was mediated primarily by ANPP, offset by a smaller effect of leaf nitrogen content; no direct precipitation effect was detected. At the Temple site, increasing precipitation had positive direct and ANPP-mediated effects on JCO2. This suggests that greater water limitation at Austin may strengthen the links between plant size and JCO2. 4. Synthesis Estimates of C cycling can be improved by accounting for mediation of precipitation effects on JCO2 by plant economics traits and plant size in resource-limited environments.

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Polyploidy promotes divergent evolution across the leaf economics spectrum and plant edaphic niche in the Dianthus broteri complex

<ol> <li>The evolution of the leaf economics spectrum (LES) is known to be constrained by genetic relatedness but also promoted at small geographic and phylogenetic scales. In those cases, we hypothesised that polyploidy would play a prominent role as an outstanding source of functional divergence and adaptive potential.</li> <li>We registered leaf-level nutrient, water and light economy related traits from the LES as well as edaphic properties in the four cytotypes of the autopolyploid Dianthus broteri complex (2×, 4×, 6× and 12×). We analysed the effect of ploidy level on the integration of the LES network, checked if concerted evolution occurred between LES and soil niche and tested the influence of phylogeny on the variables. Alternative evolutionary models for both sets of traits were compared.</li> <li> We found higher divergence of polyploids (especially 6× and 12×) compared to diploids in the LES and soil niche, but these traits are not coevolving. 6× and 12× showed opposite ecological strategies regarding resource use and higher uncoupling of the LES network. Early divergence of traits prevailed in both LES and edaphic niche (supported by better fitted evolutionary models with one optimum per cytotype), but post-polyploidization processes played an important role for the photochemical behaviour.</li> <li> Synthesis. Our results indicated shifts in ecological strategies across D. broteri cytotypes and suggested a powerful role of polyploidy in overcoming constraints for the evolution of plant functional traits. </li> </ol>

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Intraspecific variation in plant economic traits predicts trembling aspen resistance to a generalist insect herbivore

Patterns of trait expression within some plant species have recently been shown to follow patterns described by the leaf economics spectrum paradigm. Resistance to herbivores is also expected to covary with leaf economics traits. We selected multiple mature Populus tremuloides genotypes from a common garden to assess whether aspen leaf economics patterns follow those observed among species globally. We also evaluated leaf economics strategies in the context of insect resistance by conducting bioassays to determine the effects of plant traits on preference and performance of Lymantria dispar. We found that: 1) intraspecific trait patterns of P. tremuloides parallel those exhibited by the interspecific leaf economics spectrum, 2) herbivores preferred leaves from genotypes with resource-acquisitive strategies, and 3) herbivores also performed best on genotypes with resource-acquisitive strategies. We conclude that a leaf economics spectrum that incorporates defense traits is a useful tool for explaining intraspecific patterns of variation in plant strategies, including resistance to herbivores.