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In our #VirtualIssue on #Herbivore-derived elicitors of plant responses we bring together New Phytologist articles that highlight recent developments in the study of how plants respond to herbivores 👇

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Spittlebug (Philaneus spumaruis) foam on tall goldenrod (Solidago altissima).
December 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Combining high-resolution mapping of foliar- and herbivore- faecal sodium concentrations across Africa, the authors show that plant-derived sodium availability constrains megaherbivore densities at a continental scale 🧪🐘🦏🦒 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sodium constraints on megaherbivore communities in Africa - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Combining high-resolution mapping of foliar and herbivore faecal sodium concentrations across Africa, the authors show that plant-derived sodium availability constrains megaherbivore densities at a co...
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December 15, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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How do cross-system subsidies shape the functioning of recipient #ecosystems? @sbtebbett.bsky.social explores a @plosbiology.org study revealing that #seabird -derived nutrients fuel primary producers on #CoralReefs, enhancing herbivore productivity 🧪 Paper: plos.io/44RFyJk Primer: plos.io/4lDpvo6
Cross-system connections can mediate the functioning of coral reefs via bottom-up control of productivity flowing through herbivorous trophic pathways. (a) Highly productive turf communities represent major primary producers on coral reefs (photograph: SB Tebbett). (b) Herbivorous fishes such as the turf cropping surgeonfish, Acanthurus lineatus, rely on the primary production of turfs to meet their nutritional needs (photograph: SB Tebbett). (c) A conceptual overview of the results of a new study in PLOS Biology by Benkwitt and colleagues [2] which quantified key ecosystem functions and demonstrated that seabird-derived nutrient supply can underpin strong cross-system connections between island ecosystems and adjacent coral reefs. Benkwitt and colleagues revealed that higher inputs of seabird nutrients fueled turf growth and indirectly enhanced the productivity of herbivorous fishes. (d) An alternative scenario where terrestrial sediment inputs underpin strong cross-system connections. However, in this case, sediments can limit turf growth and constrain herbivorous fish productivity [1,9]. These different scenarios underscore the importance of using a functional approach to quantify the strength of cross-system connections if we are to comprehensively understand how changing environmental conditions can have flow-on consequences for recipient ecosystems.
July 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
plosbiology.org
How do cross-system subsidies shape the functioning of recipient #ecosystems? @sbtebbett.bsky.social explores a @plosbiology.org study revealing that #seabird -derived nutrients fuel primary producers on #CoralReefs, enhancing herbivore productivity 🧪 Paper: plos.io/44RFyJk Primer: plos.io/4lDpvo6
Cross-system connections can mediate the functioning of coral reefs via bottom-up control of productivity flowing through herbivorous trophic pathways. (a) Highly productive turf communities represent major primary producers on coral reefs (photograph: SB Tebbett). (b) Herbivorous fishes such as the turf cropping surgeonfish, Acanthurus lineatus, rely on the primary production of turfs to meet their nutritional needs (photograph: SB Tebbett). (c) A conceptual overview of the results of a new study in PLOS Biology by Benkwitt and colleagues [2] which quantified key ecosystem functions and demonstrated that seabird-derived nutrient supply can underpin strong cross-system connections between island ecosystems and adjacent coral reefs. Benkwitt and colleagues revealed that higher inputs of seabird nutrients fueled turf growth and indirectly enhanced the productivity of herbivorous fishes. (d) An alternative scenario where terrestrial sediment inputs underpin strong cross-system connections. However, in this case, sediments can limit turf growth and constrain herbivorous fish productivity [1,9]. These different scenarios underscore the importance of using a functional approach to quantify the strength of cross-system connections if we are to comprehensively understand how changing environmental conditions can have flow-on consequences for recipient ecosystems.
July 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
plosbiology.org
How do cross-system subsidies shape the functioning of recipient #ecosystems? @sbtebbett.bsky.social explores a @plosbiology.org study revealing that #seabird -derived nutrients fuel primary producers on #CoralReefs, enhancing herbivore productivity 🧪 Paper: plos.io/44RFyJk Primer: plos.io/4lDpvo6
Cross-system connections can mediate the functioning of coral reefs via bottom-up control of productivity flowing through herbivorous trophic pathways. (a) Highly productive turf communities represent major primary producers on coral reefs (photograph: SB Tebbett). (b) Herbivorous fishes such as the turf cropping surgeonfish, Acanthurus lineatus, rely on the primary production of turfs to meet their nutritional needs (photograph: SB Tebbett). (c) A conceptual overview of the results of a new study in PLOS Biology by Benkwitt and colleagues [2] which quantified key ecosystem functions and demonstrated that seabird-derived nutrient supply can underpin strong cross-system connections between island ecosystems and adjacent coral reefs. Benkwitt and colleagues revealed that higher inputs of seabird nutrients fueled turf growth and indirectly enhanced the productivity of herbivorous fishes. (d) An alternative scenario where terrestrial sediment inputs underpin strong cross-system connections. However, in this case, sediments can limit turf growth and constrain herbivorous fish productivity [1,9]. These different scenarios underscore the importance of using a functional approach to quantify the strength of cross-system connections if we are to comprehensively understand how changing environmental conditions can have flow-on consequences for recipient ecosystems.
July 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
plosbiology.org
Cross-ecosystem nutrient fluxes can influence recipient food webs. @cbenkwitt.bsky.social &co's study of #NutrientSubsidies shows that dynamic metrics better revealed flow & effects of #seabird derived nutrients through #CoralReef food chains @lec-reefs.bsky.social @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/44RFyJk
Left: White-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus) flying near an island in the inner Seychelles. Seabirds provide key nutrient inputs to islands and nearby coral reefs, where they boost primary and secondary productivity. Right: Example herbivore exclusion cage used to measure algal turf productivity across a gradient of seabird nutrient inputs on coral reefs. Image credit: Casey Benkwitt.
July 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
plosbiology.org
Cross-ecosystem nutrient fluxes can influence recipient food webs. @cbenkwitt.bsky.social &co's study of #NutrientSubsidies shows that dynamic metrics better revealed flow & effects of #seabird derived nutrients through #CoralReef food chains @lec-reefs.bsky.social @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/44RFyJk
Left: White-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus) flying near an island in the inner Seychelles. Seabirds provide key nutrient inputs to islands and nearby coral reefs, where they boost primary and secondary productivity. Right: Example herbivore exclusion cage used to measure algal turf productivity across a gradient of seabird nutrient inputs on coral reefs. Image credit: Casey Benkwitt.
July 9, 2025 at 8:31 AM
plosbiology.org
Cross-ecosystem nutrient fluxes can influence recipient food webs. @cbenkwitt.bsky.social &co's study of #NutrientSubsidies shows that dynamic metrics better revealed flow & effects of #seabird derived nutrients through #CoralReef food chains @lec-reefs.bsky.social @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/44RFyJk
Left: White-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus) flying near an island in the inner Seychelles. Seabirds provide key nutrient inputs to islands and nearby coral reefs, where they boost primary and secondary productivity. Right: Example herbivore exclusion cage used to measure algal turf productivity across a gradient of seabird nutrient inputs on coral reefs. Image credit: Casey Benkwitt.
July 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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How #plants respond to herbivores: read here recent developments.

"Plants respond to herbivory with significant transcriptional and metabolic reconfigurations."

Read about herbivore-derived elicitors of plant responses.

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Image Source: https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.70289 Figure 1 Elicitor-mediated plant responses and their ecological consequences. Chemical elicitors derived from arthropod herbivores can influence plant signaling and thus metabolism in specific and fundamental ways. Plants and herbivores are thought to engage in an evolutionary arms race over the control of the signaling that affects induced plant defense and primary metabolism. This arms race can result in a range of ecological outcomes: from the attackers manipulating the plants into induced susceptibility to the plants manipulating herbivore behavior mediated by induced resistance. The former seems to be common in association with galling, mining and piercing sucking insects, which affect plant endogenous signaling to their own advantage, in part mediated by the chemical elicitors they produce (left part of the figure). The latter seems to be more common in interactions with chewing herbivores, when elicitor application to wounds results in the targeted expression of toxic, repellant and detracting plant secondary metabolites and thus induced resistance (right part of the figure). However, plants are hypothesized to use specific elicitation and integration of chemical information to optimize the fitness outcome when facing complex interaction communities (center of the figure) through affecting interactions with both antagonists (herbivores and pathogens) and mutualists (pollinators, predators of herbivores). This way, herbivore-derived elicitor-mediated inductions of plant responses can optimize plant responses in a context-dependent manner (e.g. as a function of competition, reproductive status, presence of herbivores and pathogens, presence of natural enemies of herbivores). [...]
July 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Detecting the enemy or being manipulated by your attacker?

Check out this #Editorial introducing the #VirtualIssue ‘Herbivore-derived elicitors of plant responses’

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Elicitor-mediated plant responses and their ecological consequences.
June 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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🆕 Our #LatestIssue is online now!

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Highlights include:
🌱 Virtual Issue: Herbivore-derived elicitors of plant #responses
🌱 #DNA repeats and expansions
🌱 tRNA modification in #plant pathogenic #fungi
On the cover of New Phytologist volume 247, issue 2: Spittlebug (Philaneus spumaruis) producing foam on tall goldenrod (Solidago altissima). Image courtesy of André Kessler.
June 23, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Meaning of #sufijovorovora Suffixes for the male and the female, derived from the Latin verb voro voras vorare meaning eat, devour; Therefore the meaning of " eating " and are equivalent to the Greek - phage,-Fagan. We are thus words such as herbivore, carni.. sufijo voro vora
January 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Cumnoria was a Late Jurassic ornithopod from #England that was closely related to (but more derived than) Camptosaurus. This 4 meter long bipedal herbivore is named after its discovery location of Cumnor and can be found in the nearby Oxford U Museum.

( #SciArt by @palaeotaku.bsky.social )
A pencil drawn Cumnoria, kudos to the illustrator for their wonderful shading!
May 25, 2024 at 4:40 PM