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Author(s):Lejeune, K. D.; Suding, K. N.; Sturgis, S.; Scott, A.; Seastedt, T. R.
Author Affiliation:Lejeune: Stratus Consulting, Boulder, Colorado; Suding: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and INSTAAR, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, and University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California; Sturgis, Scott, Seastedt: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and INSTAAR, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Title:Biological control insect use of fertilized and unfertilized diffuse knapweed in a Colorado grassland
Section:Plant-insect interactions
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Source:Environmental Entomology. Vol. 34, No. 1, February 2005, p. 225-234.
Publishing Information:College Park, MD: Entomological Society of America
# of Pages:10
Keywords:TIC Keywords: Plant interaction; Insects; Biological control; Fertilization; Grasslands; Centaurea diffusa; Insect pests; Biological weed control; Density; Seed production
Geographic Terms:Colorado
Abstract/Contents:"The responses and impacts of five insect species that feed on Centaurea diffusa Lamarck, diffuse knapweed, to soil nitrogen and phosphorus additions were studied in grasslands east of the Colorado Front Range. We predicted that fertilization was unlikely to have a direct effect on herbivory but that if the insects preferentially select vigorous plants, increased tissue nitrogen, plant density, or plant mass resulting from fertilization would increase plant susceptibility to biological control insects. Fertilization caused a modest increase in the biomass of C. diffusa adults and the nutritive content of aboveground plant biomass. Larinus minutus Gyllenhal, a seed head weeveil, was less abundant and exhibited reduced impacts on fertilized C. diffusa plants. Abundance of gall fly larvae, Urophora spp., was negatively influenced by the presence of L. minutus and had no detectable effect on seed abundance. No positive or negative impacts of root feeders on knapweed were observed, but the root-feeding Cyphocleonus achates (Fahraeus) selected plants in fertilized plots, whereas the root phytophage Sphenoptera jugoslavica Obenberger was more common on knapweed in unfertilized plots. Our results indicate that these specialist biological control insects exhibit little preference based on plant biomass, density, or nutritive quality. However, variables that affect the timing of knapweed seed production, such as fertilization, mowing, and grazing, reduce insect impacts and may explain some of the regional variaition in effectiveness of these insects as biological controls on knapweed."
Language:English
References:42
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Lejeune, K. D., K. N. Suding, S. Sturgis, A. Scott, and T. R. Seastedt. 2005. Biological control insect use of fertilized and unfertilized diffuse knapweed in a Colorado grassland. Environ. Entomol. 34(1):p. 225-234.
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