Big news! 📣 Our @oikosjournal.bsky.social paper led by @juanignacioramirez.bsky.social is officially a 2025 Top Cited Paper! Honored to be part of this team. 🥂
Dive into the research here: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/8YCV93...
#TopCited #OikosJournal #Reindeer #Herbivory #Arctic

Figure 1 Medrano et al (2026): Box-plots showing variation in average genome-wide DNA cytosine methylation (%) between ramets from the three study populations assigned to each of the three levels of herbivory treatment (control, insect and artificial herbivory). Each dot represents a ramet (N = 18, 27, and 18 for Spain, Italy and Poland, respectively). Lower and upper box boundaries are the 25th and 75th percentiles, respectively, line inside box the median, lower and upper error lines the 10th and 90th percentiles. Differences between the two herbivory levels and control undamaged plants were only statistically significant in CHH context

New publication: #Epigenomic response to #insect #herbivory in Lombardy #poplar: assessing geographic variation in #DNA #methylation changes, by @kjfverhoeven.bsky.social and others.
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🐟 📚New article: "Density dependence and territorial competitors can modulate #parrotfish social foraging and #herbivory on #coralreefs". In @royalsociety.org 🔗 

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Photo of the experimental setup used to evaluate the comparative response to herbivory across the Brachypodium species complex. The picture was taken during the feeding experiment, in which the authors placed one locust on multiple lines of diploid Brachypodium distachyon, B. stacei, and B. hybridum allopolyploid. Locusts were allowed to feed for 48 h, after which damage and fitness were evaluated.

Drivers of insect #herbivory resistance & tolerance to plant damage in the #Brachypodium distachyon species complex

New #AJB research by Antonio Manzaneda, Luisa Martínez, Ana Fernández-Ocaña, Teresa Salido & Pedro Rey

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#botany #plantscience #polyploidy #Poaceae

Placing a mustard oil bomb trigger in the endoplasmic reticulum: the SUN in plant defense against #herbivory #attack

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👆 A #Commentary by Huanquan Zheng on this article by Ikeda et al.
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#LatestIssue

Soil conditions mediate cucumber-root (Medeola virginiana) plant responses to white-tailed deer herbivory Abstract. In eastern North America, cucumber-root (Medeola virginiana) is a widely distributed perennial forest herb that has been used as an ecological in

【🎉Latest accepted article】
Soil conditions mediate cucumber-root (Medeola virginiana) plant responses to #White_tailedDeer #Herbivory

#SoilAcidification | #EcologicalIndicator | #Lime | #Herbicide | #SoilChemistry

@mapjournals.bsky.social

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Intriguing 2025 paper by Roonjha et al.

Aphid-Transmitted Plant Viruses: Epidemiology and Integrated Vector Management

tinyurl.com/4vw4zwsp

#WIS

#PlantandEnvironmentalSciences

#Insect

#Herbivory

#PlantVirus

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Marvelous 2025 paper by Walthaus et al.:

Biomechanical components of the plant–insect herbivore arms race: a model test in leaf-cutter ants

tinyurl.com/bdffsma9

#WIS

#PlantandEnvironmentalSciences

#Plants

#Herbivory

#PlantInsectInteractions

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Jasmonic acid and salicylic acid interact to determine spatial regulation of gene expression responses in potato leaf to herbivory by Colorado potato beetle and mechanical wounding Abstract. We investigated the spatial dynamics of potato (Solanum tuberosum) responses to herbivory and mechanical wounding. We first followed the spatiote

Core defense...⚔️🐛🦠

🌟Editor's choice! 🌟

Levak et al. provide compelling evidence for similar SA-JA cross-talk co-ordinating response to #herbivory and mechanical wounding as for pathogen attack

🆓 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

#PlantScience
#PlantImmunity
#JasmonicAcid
#SalicylicAcid
#PlantHormones

Jinan Lu et al. explored #Silicon mediates geographic variation of herbivory-related traits in a widespread plant invader.

#BiologicalInvasion | #Herbivory | #LatitudinalVariation | #PlantDefenses | #InvasionEcology | #SpeciesInteraction

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🐜 Observations of #ants collecting nectar from the newly described 𝘚𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘮 𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘶𝘮 at its type locality in Australia’s Tanami Desert suggest a plant-animal #coadaptation resulting in defense against #herbivory.

🔗 doi.org/10.3897/phyt...

@martinebotany.bsky.social

Getting excited for our upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Paradigm Shifts in #Flower Color" 🎨🌼🌸🌺🎨 @botsocamerica.bsky.social
#botany #plantscience #herbivory #pollination

Side by side images of sweet sand verbena (Abronia fragrans). A white-lined sphinx moth caterpillar eats white flowers on the left and a skipper nectars on pink flowers on the right.

🌼🎨 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Paradigm Shifts in #Flower Color" 🎨🌼

#Pollinator, herbivore, & climatic selective pressures differ across a floral color transition zone

By Sierra Jaeger, et al.

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #herbivory #pollination @aeberardi.bsky.social

The potential effects of silicon treatments on plant traits and generalist herbivore performance in Spartina alterniflora populations from different sources.

⭐ #Silicon ➡️ Plant defensive/nutritional traits and #Herbivory

Samples
Spartina alterniflora
Mythimna separata & Locusta migratoria

#BiologicalInvasion | #LatitudinalVariation | #PlantDefenses | #InvasionEcology | #SpeciesInteraction

@mapjournals.bsky.social

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Impacts of large herbivores on mycorrhizal fungal communities across the Arctic Mycorrhizal fungi play an integral role in nutrient and carbon cycling in soils, which may be especially important in the Arctic, one of the world's most soil carbon-rich regions. Large mammalian herb...

Impacts of large herbivores on mycorrhizal fungal communities across the Arctic

#ampliconsequencing
#arbuscularmycorrhiza
#arctic
#ectomycorrhiza
#ericoidmycorrhiza
#herbivory

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↕️🌳Bottom–up and top–down drivers influence urbanization effects on insect herbivory in oaks

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#Herbivory #MultiTrophicInteractions #Oak #PlantHerbivoreInteractions #PlantTraits #Temperature #Urbanization #VertebrateAndInvertebratePredation

4/5 Diversification analyses reveal that species with dense architectures had higher speciation rates in herbivore-rich environments. Adding spines further boosted diversification.👉Fig.4,Fig.5 show speciation rates under different regimes.#MacroEvolution #PlantDefense #Herbivory

Abnormal endoplasmic reticulum structures in the Arabidopsis sun3 sun4 sun5 triple mutant.

Placing a mustard oil bomb trigger in the endoplasmic reticulum: the SUN in #plant #defense against #herbivory attack

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#Commentary by Huanquan Zheng👆 highlighting the recent work by Ikeda et al.👇

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We have a new Msc!! 🥳
Last Thursday, João Barbosa defended his MsC thesis at ICBAS-UP, entitled “Assessing #herbivory pressure on canopy-forming #seaweeds along #temperature gradients- a case-study with Himanthalia elongata”. stay tuned for more!
#fct @aneris.eu @coastalwarming.bsky.social

Patterns of change in floral color and odor of Lonicera calcarata are in relation to pollinator behavior Lonicera calcarata flowers change from white through yellow to orange-red. Pollinators favor prechange flowers, guided by color cues. Floral odor mainly comprised fatty acids, monoterpenes, and peake...

Wang et al. explore the complex interplay between pollinators and #flower features like scent and color, and the impact of this interaction on #plant reproductive success and #herbivory.

doi.org/10.1111/jse....
@wileyecology.bsky.social
#PlantScience #EcoEvo #evolution #BugSky

Seeing yew for the forest: a call to action for improving conservation and restoration of the European yew (Taxus baccata L.) The European yew (Taxus baccata L.) is a long-lived conifer of ecological, cultural, and historical importance across Eurasia. Despite its remarkable …

🌲Happy to coauthor a new international study on #yew 🌲
One of Europe’s most overlooked & poorly understood #trees is far more versatile & ecologically complex than often assumed. #Herbivory, #light & #Taxaceae links are key🌲 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Visiting the #mangroves in Santa Catalina on the Pacific Coast of Panama in March 2025, I was struck by high levels of localized leaf #herbivory. Does anyone know what organism(s) are responsible?

This special collection @arcticsciencej.bsky.social features some cool #herbivory research in #Svalbard!

Check out:
👉Dwinnell et al: shorturl.at/hhpe7
👉Paulsen et al: shorturl.at/qURAm
👉Situnayake et al: shorturl.at/fUukv
👉Sato-Bajracharya et al: shorturl.at/v09dU

New #OpenAccess research by J. Kollross, @czsam00.bsky.social et al. in #RESEcolEnt found that nutrient addition, but not vertebrate predator exclusion, shapes #arthropod #communities & #herbivory in a temperate forest
doi.org/10.1111/een.70038

#TrophicInteractions

Can someone point me to recent papers about the decline, and lack of recovery, for the #kelp Macrocystis in #Tasmania?
I have Butler et al 2020 MEPS.
#Ocean #warming. #Herbivory.
🧪🦑

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I love how delightfully diabolical evolution can be.

A new article in Annual Review of Entomology is about the plant pathogens that are vectored between plants by herbivorous insects. These plant pathogens invade plant tissues and make plants sick. To get between plants they hitch a ride inside […]

Spectral indices to evaluate the physiological response of Mediterranean shrubs to browsing Herbivory by large ungulates may cause important physiological and spectral changes in plants, which may serve as ecological indicators of herbivore o…

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
Spectral indices to evaluate the physiological response of Mediterranean shrubs to browsing. #Ecology #Spectral #Herbivory
Check it out! 👇👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A photo of a green plant stem covered in a mass of black aphids, America regwort aphids, being tended by tan brown Australian ants, in New Zealand. For details and higher resolution photos, see my iNat observation at https://inaturalist.nz/observations/320306081

Another photo of a green plant stem with black aphids, America regwort aphids, being tended by tan brown Australian ants, in New Zealand. My hand is there for scale holding the plant. For details and higher resolution photos, see my iNat observation at https://inaturalist.nz/observations/320313017

A photo of a greyish hairy plant stem covered in black aphids, America regwort aphids. This plant is the NZ Pahohoraka, Senecio quadridentatus. For details and higher resolution photos, see my iNat observation at https://inaturalist.nz/observations/320306091

Watch out: the weather is warming and the American ragwort aphids are *multiplying*.

American ragwort aphids specialise on Senecio plants, of which NZ has many species, including some threatened endemic species.

The aphid arrived in NZ (somehow) in 2023, and […]

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Figure 1 in Zhou et al. (2025): "Ophraella communa performance on the invasive plant Ambrosia artemisiifolia from nine populations and three regions with 0–9 and 17-year reassociation history with the specialist beetle O. communa (three reassociation groups) in a common garden experiment. (a) Weight of O. communa larvae, (b) pupae, (c) adults and (d) developmental duration of pre-adult stages on leaves of plants originating from A. artemisiifolia populations of the different reassociation groups. The P-value of ra (reassociation) represents the significance of time since reassociation (linear contrast among the three reassociation groups). In panel d, in addition to the linear contrast, two separate contrasts are indicated above the bars: 0 vs. >0 years reassociation (P < 0.001) and 9- vs. 17-year reassociation (P > 0.1). These contrasts are not shown for a–c where deviations from the linear contrast are very small. The error bars are ± SE (the same for the following figures). For each maternal line, 9–20 replicate bioassays were included and at least 100 beetles for each reassociation group, numbers in the bars represent replicates of beetles per reassociation group."

New publication: Genetic variation in #leaf chemistry driven by #herbivory affects #phyllosphere fungal communities in an invasive plant.
doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...