Claim · model-written summary
Nonmetric multidimensional scaling distinguished arthropod orders and families, and herbivore families, in S. sebiferum from mixed woodland and coastal prairie.
- Taxon
- Sapium sebiferum
Triadica sebiferae1 - Interactor
- herbivorese4herbivore
- Outcome
- orders and families of arthropodse4
- Comparator
- mixed woodland and coastal prairiee4
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentSettingDirectionValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“introduced Chinese tallow tree (Sapium sebiferum)”
e4“Nonmetric multidimensional scaling distinguished orders and families of arthropods, and families of herbivores in S. sebiferum from mixed woodland and coastal prairie”
Title
Entomofauna of the Introduced Chinese Tallow Tree
Guy N. Cameron; Stephen R. Spencer The Southwestern Naturalist 2010. doi:10.1894/jc-28.1
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Observation Arthropod species diversity, richness and abundance were highest in prairie.
- Observation Arthropod species diversity, richness and abundance were higher in mixed woodland than in S. sebiferum.
- Observation Taxonomic similarity between S. sebiferum and mixed woodland was 51%.
- Observation Fauna from S. sebiferum in 2001 was more similar to mixed woodland than to S. sebiferum samples collected in 1982.
- Association The entomofauna in S. sebiferum appears to have originated from mixed prairie.
- Association Over time the faunas of S. sebiferum became more similar to mixed woodland.
- Observation Species richness and abundance of herbivores were lower in S. sebiferum.
- Observation The proportion of total species in all trophic groups except herbivores was higher in S. sebiferum than in mixed woodland.
- Association Low tannin concentration in leaves did not explain the low leaf loss to herbivores in S. sebiferum.
- Mechanism Lower abundance of herbivores on introduced plants fits the enemy release hypothesis.
- Mechanism Low defence-compound concentration with few herbivores fits the evolution of increased competitive ability hypothesis.