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Effects of roads on Castanopsis carlesii seedlings and their leaf herbivory in a subtropical forest in China

The effects of a forest road on Castanopsis carlesii (Hemsley) Hayata (Fagales: Fagaceae) seedlings and their leaf herbivory were investigated in a subtropical forest at Jiulianshan National Nature Reserve, Jiangxi, China. A total of 1124 seedlings, 33949 leaves, 468 leaf mines, and 205 leaf galls w...

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Autores principales: Dai, Xiao-Hua, Xu, Jia-Sheng, Cai, Lu-Rong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4199530/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25373164
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jis/14.1.17
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author Dai, Xiao-Hua
Xu, Jia-Sheng
Cai, Lu-Rong
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description The effects of a forest road on Castanopsis carlesii (Hemsley) Hayata (Fagales: Fagaceae) seedlings and their leaf herbivory were investigated in a subtropical forest at Jiulianshan National Nature Reserve, Jiangxi, China. A total of 1124 seedlings, 33949 leaves, 468 leaf mines, and 205 leaf galls were found. Generally, individual numbers, tree heights, and leaf numbers of C. carlesii seedlings became lower with increasing distances from the road. These results might indicate that old seedlings were fewer and survival rate of seedlings was lower in forest interiors. Leaf miners preferred the seedlings close to the forest road, while leaf gallers preferred the seedlings about 2 m from the road. Species diversity of leaf miners was higher in the forest interior area, while species diversity of leaf gallers was higher near the road. However, both leaf miners and leaf gallers decreased in general from the road to the interior forest. There were interspecific differences in the effects of roads on leaf miner species and leaf galler species. The effects of the road on seedlings and insects could be explained by varying microhabitat conditions and different ecological strategies. 摘要 [Image: see text]
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spelling pubmed-41995302014-10-30 Effects of roads on Castanopsis carlesii seedlings and their leaf herbivory in a subtropical forest in China Dai, Xiao-Hua Xu, Jia-Sheng Cai, Lu-Rong J Insect Sci Papers The effects of a forest road on Castanopsis carlesii (Hemsley) Hayata (Fagales: Fagaceae) seedlings and their leaf herbivory were investigated in a subtropical forest at Jiulianshan National Nature Reserve, Jiangxi, China. A total of 1124 seedlings, 33949 leaves, 468 leaf mines, and 205 leaf galls were found. Generally, individual numbers, tree heights, and leaf numbers of C. carlesii seedlings became lower with increasing distances from the road. These results might indicate that old seedlings were fewer and survival rate of seedlings was lower in forest interiors. Leaf miners preferred the seedlings close to the forest road, while leaf gallers preferred the seedlings about 2 m from the road. Species diversity of leaf miners was higher in the forest interior area, while species diversity of leaf gallers was higher near the road. However, both leaf miners and leaf gallers decreased in general from the road to the interior forest. There were interspecific differences in the effects of roads on leaf miner species and leaf galler species. The effects of the road on seedlings and insects could be explained by varying microhabitat conditions and different ecological strategies. 摘要 [Image: see text] Oxford University Press 2014-01-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4199530/ /pubmed/25373164 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jis/14.1.17 Text en This is an open access paper. We use the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license that permits unrestricted use, provided that the paper is properly attributed. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, providedthe original work is properly cited.
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Effects of roads on Castanopsis carlesii seedlings and their leaf herbivory in a subtropical forest in China
title Effects of roads on Castanopsis carlesii seedlings and their leaf herbivory in a subtropical forest in China
title_full Effects of roads on Castanopsis carlesii seedlings and their leaf herbivory in a subtropical forest in China
title_fullStr Effects of roads on Castanopsis carlesii seedlings and their leaf herbivory in a subtropical forest in China
title_full_unstemmed Effects of roads on Castanopsis carlesii seedlings and their leaf herbivory in a subtropical forest in China
title_short Effects of roads on Castanopsis carlesii seedlings and their leaf herbivory in a subtropical forest in China
title_sort effects of roads on castanopsis carlesii seedlings and their leaf herbivory in a subtropical forest in china
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4199530/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25373164
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jis/14.1.17
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