Ecosystem alteration modifies the relative strengths of bottom-up and top-down forces in a herbivore population

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 853-861

  Moreau, Gaétan ^a,b   Eveleigh, Eldon S ^a,c   Lucarotti, Christopher J ^a,c   Quiring, Dan T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

^c LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Additive mortality; Compensatory mortality; Disturbance; Neodiprion abietis; Thinning

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; DEFOLIATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HYMENOPTERA; LARVA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HYMENOPTERA; LARVA; PLANT LEAVES; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALIA; NEODIPRION ABIETIS;

EID: 33748505219     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2006.01109.x     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Andrén, H. (1994) Effects of habitat fragmentation on birds and mammals in landscapes with different proportions of suitable habitats: a review. Oikos, 71, 355-366.
2. Anstey, L.J., Quiring, D.T. & Ostaff, D.P. (2002) Seasonal changes in intra-tree distribution of immature balsam fir sawfly (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae). Canadian Entomologist, 134, 529-538.
3. Bauce, É. (1996) One and two years impact of commercial thinning on spruce budworm feeding ecology and host tree foliage production and chemistry. Forestry Chronicle, 72, 393-398.
4. Benítez-Malvido, J. & Martínez-Ramos, M. (2003) Impact of forest fragmentation on understorey plant species richness in Amazonia. Conservation Biology, 17, 389-400.
5. Berryman, A.A. (1996) What causes population cycles of forest Lepidoptera. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 11, 28-32.
6. Burnham, K.P. & Anderson, D.R. (1984) Tests of compensatory vs. additive hypotheses of mortality in mallards. Ecology, 65, 105-112.
7. Carroll, W.J. (1962) Some aspects of the Neodiprion abietis (Harr.) complex in Newfoundland. PhD dissertation, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.
8. Carroll, A.L. & Quiring, D.T. (1994) Intratree variation in foliage development influences the foraging strategy of a caterpillar. Ecology, 75, 1978-1990.
9. Duffey, S.S., Hoover, K., Bonning, B.C. & Hammock, B.D. (1995) The impact of host plant on the efficacy of baculoviruses. Reviews in Pesticide Toxicology, 3, 134-275.
10. François, F., André, P. & Devillez, F. (1985) Effet de l'intensité de l'éclaircie sur l'extinction du rayonnement solaire en jeunes futaies de Picea abies (L.) Karst. Annales des Sciences Forestières, 41, 439-448.
11. Hairston, N.G., Smith, F.E. Sr & Slobodkin, L.B. (1960) Community structure, population control, and competition. American Naturalist, 94, 421-425.
12. Harrison, S. & Cappuccino, N. (1995) Using density-manipulation experiments to study population regulation. Population Dynamics: New Approaches and Synthesis (eds N. Cappuccino & P.W. Price), pp. 131-147. Academic Press, San Diego, CA, USA.
13. Huber, J.T. & Moreau, G. (2003) New synonymy and new sawfly host for Cirrospilus vittatus (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) in North America. Canadian Entomologist, 135, 669-676.
14. Hunter, M.D., Varley, G.C. & Gradwell, G.R. (1997) Estimating the relative roles of top-down and bottom-up forces on insect herbivore populations: a classic study revisited. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 94, 9176-9181.
15. Huntly, N. (1991) Herbivores and the dynamics of communities and ecosystems. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 22, 477-503.
16. Krebs, C.J., Boutin, S. & Boonstra, R. (2001) Ecosystem Dynamics of the Boreal Forest: the Kluane Project. Oxford University Press, New York.
17. Mattson, W.J. & Addy, N.D. (1975) Phytophagous insects as regulators of forest primary production. Science, 190, 515-522.
18. May, R.M. (1977) Thresholds and breakpoints in ecosystems with a multiplicity of stable states. Nature, 269, 471-477.
19. Moreau, G. (2004) The influence of forest management on defoliator populations: a case study with Neodiprion abietis in precommercially thinned and natural forest stands. PhD dissertation, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick.
20. Moreau, G. (2006) Past and present outbreaks of the balsam fir sawfly in western Newfoundland: an analytical review. Forest Ecology and Management, 221, 215-219.
21. Moreau, G., Eveleigh, E.S., Lucarotti, C.J. & Quiring, D.T. (2006) Stage-specific responses to ecosystem alteration in an eruptive herbivorous insect. Journal of Applied Ecology, 43, 28-34.
22. Moreau, G., Lucarotti, C.J., Kettela, E.G., Thurston, G.S., Holmes, S., Weaver, C., Levin, D.B. & Morin, B. (2005) Aerial application of nucleopolyhedrovirus induces decline in increasing and peaking populations of Neodiprion abietis. Biological Control, 33, 65-73.
23. Moreau, G., Quiring, D.T., Eveleigh, E.S. & Bauce, É. (2003) Advantages of a mixed diet: feeding on several foliar age classes increases the performance of a specialist insect herbivore. Oecologia, 135, 391-399.
24. Noy-Meir, I. (1975) Stability of grazing systems: an application of predator-prey graphs. Journal of Ecology, 63, 459-481.
25. Nutter, F.W. (1997) Quantifying the temporal dynamics of plant virus epidemics: a review. Crop Protection, 16, 603-618.
26. Pardy, K.E. (1964) Review of Insectary Procedures of the Forest Insect and Disease Survey in Newfoundland. Information report N-X-01. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Corner Brook, Newfoundland.
27. Parsons, K., Quiring, D., Piene, H. & Farrell, J. (2003) Temporal patterns of balsam fir sawfly defoliation and growth loss in young balsam fir. Forest Ecology and Management, 184, 33-46.
28. Parsons, K., Quiring, D., Piene, H. & Moreau, G. (2005) Relationship between balsam fir sawfly density and defoliation in balsam fir. Forest Ecology and Management, 205, 325-331.
29. Price, P.W. (1997) Insect Ecology, 3rd edn. Wiley Interscience, New York.
30. Quiring, D.T. (1990) Effet de l'établissement de plantations sur l'entomologie forestière aux Maritimes. Revue d'Entomologie du Québec, 35, 18-24.
31. Roland, J. (1993) Large-scale forest fragmentation increases the duration of tent caterpillar outbreaks. Oecologia, 93, 25-30.
32. Royama, T. (2001) Measurement, analysis, and interpretation of mortality factors in insect survivorship studies, with reference to the spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana (Clem.) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Population Ecology, 43, 157-178.
33. SAS Institute (1982) SAS User's Guide: Statistics. Statistical Analysis System Institute, Cary, North Carolina.
34. Stiling, P. & Rossi, A.M. (1997) Experimental manipulations of top-down and bottom-up factors in a tri-trophic system. Ecology, 78, 1602-1606.
35. Thibodeau, L., Raymond, P., Camiré, C. & Munson, A.D. (2000) Impact of precommercial thinning in balsam fir stands on nitrogen dynamics, microbial biomass, decomposition, and foliar nutrition. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 30, 229-238.
36. Turner, I.M., Chua, K.S., On, J.S.Y., Soong, B.C. & Tan, H.T.W. (1996) A century of plant species loss from an isolated fragment of lowland tropical rain forest. Conservation Biology, 10, 1229-1244.
37. Walker, M. & Jones, T.H. (2001) Relative roles of top-down and bottom-up forces in terrestrial tritrophic plant-insect herbivore-natural enemy systems. Oikos, 93, 177-187.
38. Washburn, J.O., Mercer, D.R. & Anderson, J.R. (1991) Regulatory role of parasites: impact on host population shifts with resource availability. Science, 253, 185-188.
39. Wickman, B.E. & Torgersen, T.R. (1987) Phenology of Douglas-fir tussock moth, Orgyia pseudotsugata, egg eclosion and mortality in a thinned and unthinned stand (Lepidoptera, Lymantriidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 63, 218-223.
40. Wilcove, D.S., Rothstein, D., Dubow, J., Phillips, A. & Losos, E. (1998) Quantifying threats to imperiled species in the United States. Bioscience, 48, 607-615.
41. Young, S.Y. (1998) Transmission of nuclear polyhedrosis virus prior to death of infected Loblolly pine sawfly, Neodiprion taedae linearis Ross, on Loblolly pine. Journal of Entomological Science, 33, 1-6.