Claim · model-written summary
Aboveground herbivory by grasshoppers significantly increased mycorrhizal fungal colonization of plant roots.
- Taxon
- plante0
- Treatment
- Aboveground herbivory by grasshopperse0
- Interactor
- grasshoppersAcridomorphae0herbivore
- Outcome
- mycorrhizal fungal colonization of plant rootse0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Aboveground herbivory by grasshoppers significantly increased mycorrhizal fungal colonization of plant roots”
Title
Effects of mycorrhizal symbiosis on tallgrass prairie plant–herbivore interactions
Abigail A. R. Kula; David C. Hartnett; Gail W. T. Wilson Ecology Letters 2004. doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00690.x
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Mycorrhizal symbiosis increased plant regrowth following defoliation.
- Observation Some strongly mycotrophic plant species showed overcompensation in response to herbivory when mycorrhizal.
- Intervention effect Grasshoppers spent more time on mycorrhizal plants than on non-mycorrhizal plants.
- Intervention effect Herbivory intensity did not differ between mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal plants.
- Observation Tallgrass prairie plant species differ strongly in their responses to the interaction of aboveground herbivores and mycorrhizal symbionts.