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Insect Population Ecology and Biotic Interactions

A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Protection and Biotic Interactions".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 June 2023) | Viewed by 1281

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Zihua Zhao

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MARA Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Management for Plant Quarantine Pests, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: biological invasions; insect population ecology
Dr. Peijian Shi

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Bamboo Research Institute, College of Biology and the Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China
Interests: botany; scaling; geometry; applied spatial statistics; forest ecology
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Dear Colleagues,

Plant, insect, and natural enemy interaction is an important issue in agroecology. Normally, the patterns and mechanisms of biodiversity and ecological functions are the basis for crop production and sustainability. This includes the relative importance of local and broad scales as well as bottom-up and top-down effects with respect to the regulation of insect communities in multitrophic food webs. Such basic ecology is related to the conservation and enhancement of beneficial interactions in agroecosystems. The general topic is "Insect Population Ecology and Biotic Interactions", with the following specific topics: (1) Population interactions between plant-feeding insects and their hosts in agroecosystems. (2) Insect population dynamics under global change. (3) Insect population and their host plants.

Dr. Zihua Zhao
Dr. Peijian Shi
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Keywords

  • insect population ecology
  • biotic interactions
  • natural enemy

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Effects of Plant Coverage on the Abundance of Adult Mosquitos at an Urban Park
by Yunfeng Yang, David A. Ratkowsky, Jiaqi Yang and Peijian Shi
Plants 2023, 12(5), 983; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12050983 - 21 Feb 2023
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People who take a walk in urban parks, including or adjacent to a water body such as a river, a pond, or a lake, usually suffer from mosquito bites in summer and early autumn. The insects can negatively affect the health and mood [...] Read more.
People who take a walk in urban parks, including or adjacent to a water body such as a river, a pond, or a lake, usually suffer from mosquito bites in summer and early autumn. The insects can negatively affect the health and mood of these visitors. Prior studies about the effects of landscape composition on the abundance of mosquitos have usually taken stepwise multiple linear regression protocols to look for the landscape variables that can significantly affect the abundance of mosquitos. However, those studies have largely overlooked the nonlinear effects of landscape plants on the abundance of mosquitos. In the present study, we compared the multiple linear regression (MLR) with the generalized additive model (GAM) based on the trapped mosquito abundance data obtained by using photo-catalytic CO2-baited lamps placed at the Xuanwu Lake Park, a representative subtropical urban scenic spot. We measured the coverage of trees, shrubs, forbs, proportion of hard paving, proportion of water body, and coverage of aquatic plants within a distance of 5 m from each lamp’s location. We found that MLR and GAM both detected the significant influences of the coverage of terrestrial plants on the abundance of mosquitos, but GAM provided a better fit to the observations by relaxing the limitation of the linear relationship hypothesis by MLR. The coverage of trees, shrubs, and forbs accounted for 55.2% of deviance, and the coverage of shrubs had the greatest contribution rate among the three predictors, accounting for 22.6% of the deviance. The addition of the interaction between the coverage of trees and that of shrubs largely enhanced the goodness of fit, and it increased the explained deviance of the GAM from 55.2% to 65.7%. The information in this work can be valuable for the planning and design of landscape plants to reduce the abundance of mosquitos at special urban scenic points. Full article
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