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Scale-dependent contribution of host-specificity and environmental factors to wood-boring longhorn beetle community assemblage in SW China

Longhorn beetles are extremely rich wood-boring insects possessing larvae that feed on the xylem of trees and/or lianas, which have detrimental effects on plants; in turn, the hosting plants may play a fundamental role in shaping the longhorn beetle community assemblage. However, factors determining...

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Autores principales: Luo, Fang, Meng, Ling-Zeng, Aluthwattha, S. Tharanga, Lin, Mei-Ying, Weigel, Andreas, Zhang, Wen-Fu, Qi, Jin-Hua, Chen, Jin
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7930174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33658618
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-84511-3
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author Luo, Fang
Meng, Ling-Zeng
Aluthwattha, S. Tharanga
Lin, Mei-Ying
Weigel, Andreas
Zhang, Wen-Fu
Qi, Jin-Hua
Chen, Jin
author_facet Luo, Fang
Meng, Ling-Zeng
Aluthwattha, S. Tharanga
Lin, Mei-Ying
Weigel, Andreas
Zhang, Wen-Fu
Qi, Jin-Hua
Chen, Jin
author_sort Luo, Fang
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description Longhorn beetles are extremely rich wood-boring insects possessing larvae that feed on the xylem of trees and/or lianas, which have detrimental effects on plants; in turn, the hosting plants may play a fundamental role in shaping the longhorn beetle community assemblage. However, factors determining the community assemblage of wood-boring longhorn beetles, particularly along the multiple spatial scales is still in need of further exploration. In this study, we designed an experiment across several spatial scales (from local to macro scales) from tropical to temperate climate gradients in Yunnan province, southwest China to examine to what extend the attributes of host-specificity is shaping the community assemblage along different spatial scales. This study concludes that (1) the wood-boring longhorn beetles showed attributes of host-specificity to a certain degree at the community level, (2) biotic (host plant specificity) and abiotic (climatic gradients) factors jointly shaped community composition of this species along the multiple spatial scales, (3) biotic interactions have a prominent effect on the community composition of this species at local-scale while macroclimatic gradients impose the major control on it at macro-scale. Thus, this study highlights the significance of host specificity in affecting the wood-boring longhorn beetle community assemblage, particularly at local scales.
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spelling pubmed-79301742021-03-05 Scale-dependent contribution of host-specificity and environmental factors to wood-boring longhorn beetle community assemblage in SW China Luo, Fang Meng, Ling-Zeng Aluthwattha, S. Tharanga Lin, Mei-Ying Weigel, Andreas Zhang, Wen-Fu Qi, Jin-Hua Chen, Jin Sci Rep Article Longhorn beetles are extremely rich wood-boring insects possessing larvae that feed on the xylem of trees and/or lianas, which have detrimental effects on plants; in turn, the hosting plants may play a fundamental role in shaping the longhorn beetle community assemblage. However, factors determining the community assemblage of wood-boring longhorn beetles, particularly along the multiple spatial scales is still in need of further exploration. In this study, we designed an experiment across several spatial scales (from local to macro scales) from tropical to temperate climate gradients in Yunnan province, southwest China to examine to what extend the attributes of host-specificity is shaping the community assemblage along different spatial scales. This study concludes that (1) the wood-boring longhorn beetles showed attributes of host-specificity to a certain degree at the community level, (2) biotic (host plant specificity) and abiotic (climatic gradients) factors jointly shaped community composition of this species along the multiple spatial scales, (3) biotic interactions have a prominent effect on the community composition of this species at local-scale while macroclimatic gradients impose the major control on it at macro-scale. Thus, this study highlights the significance of host specificity in affecting the wood-boring longhorn beetle community assemblage, particularly at local scales. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-03-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7930174/ /pubmed/33658618 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-84511-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Qi, Jin-Hua
Chen, Jin
Scale-dependent contribution of host-specificity and environmental factors to wood-boring longhorn beetle community assemblage in SW China
title Scale-dependent contribution of host-specificity and environmental factors to wood-boring longhorn beetle community assemblage in SW China
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title_fullStr Scale-dependent contribution of host-specificity and environmental factors to wood-boring longhorn beetle community assemblage in SW China
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title_short Scale-dependent contribution of host-specificity and environmental factors to wood-boring longhorn beetle community assemblage in SW China
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7930174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33658618
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-84511-3
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