Consequences of thrips-infested plants for attraction of conspecifics and parasitoids
Consequences of thrips-infested plants for attraction of conspecifics and parasitoids
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DOI:
10.1046/j.1365-2311.2000.00283.x
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发表时间:
2000-11-01
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
Colfer, RG
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作者:
Agrawal, AA;Colfer, RG
Tri-trophic interactions among plants, herbivores, and natural enemies of herbivores are important in determining the abundance and distribution of organisms in natural and managed ecosystems. Understanding of the complexity of these interactions has grown tremendously since Price et al.(1980) wrote a seminal review of the topic. In particular, the role that the plant±herbivore interaction plays in affecting the third trophic level is of growing interest (Takabayashi & Dicke, 1996; Agrawal & Rutter, 1998; Thaler, 1999). Plants infested with herbivores release cues that can provide information to herbivores, predators, and parasitoids in the surrounding community. A growing body of theory and laboratory evidence suggests that herbivores avoid herbivoreinfested plants, predators avoid predator-infested plants, and parasitoids are attracted to herbivore-infested plants (Janssen et al., 1995, 1997; Turlings et al., 1995; Karban & Baldwin, 1997; Pallini et al., 1997).Tri-trophic interactions may be mediated in part by odours or volatiles given off by the plant±herbivore complex. For example, many experiments have demonstrated that herbivoredamaged plants release particular volatile chemicals that attract natural enemies of herbivores (Sabelis & van de Baan, 1983; Takabayashi & Dicke, 1996; De Moraes et al., 1998). Plants alone, herbivores alone, and mechanically damaged plants are often less attractive to natural enemies of herbivores than are herbivore-infested plants. The generality of such interactions and the potential to exploit them in agriculture relies on the fact that they are operative in many systems under field conditions. A few recent field studies have documented that damaged plants attract natural enemies (Drukker et al., 1995; Shimoda et al., 1997; Agrawal, 1998a; De Moraes et al., 1998; Agrawal & Dubin-Thaler, 1999).