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Ecology and Evolution of Plant-Herbivore Interactions on Islands

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Editors:
  1. Xoaquín Moreira

    1. Misión Biológica de Galicia (MBG-CSIC), Pontevedra, Spain

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  2. Luis Abdala-Roberts

    1. Departamento de Ecología, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, Mexico

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  • Provides a much needed, up-to-date synthesis of insularity effects on plant defence and herbivory
  • Represents a valuable resource of new ideas that can be tested by ecologists and practitioners
  • Provides a multidisciplinary view to understand the ecological and evolutionary forces driving insularity effects

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies (ECOLSTUD, volume 249)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction: Ecology and Evolution of Plant-Herbivore Interactions on Islands

    • Luis Abdala-Roberts, Xoaquín Moreira
    Pages 1-10

  3. Plant Defences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Spinescence and the Island Plant Defense Syndrome

      • Kasey E. Barton, Joanna K. Carpenter, Ana Flores, Llorenç Saez, Mohammed Armani
      Pages 13-29

    3. The Consequences of Species Extinctions and Introductions for Plant-Frugivore Interactions on Islands

      • Julia Helena Heinen, Michael Krabbe Borregaard
      Pages 31-54

    4. Leaf Traits Linked to Herbivory in Lineages with Mediterranean-Macaronesian Distributions: Does an Island Syndrome in Plant Defence Exist?

      • Carlos García-Verdugo, Xoaquín Moreira, Juli Caujapé-Castells, Jaume Flexas
      Pages 55-67

    5. The Loss (and Gain) of Defensive Adaptations in Island Plants and Animals: A Comparative Review

      • Riccardo Ciarle, Kevin C. Burns, Fabio Mologni
      Pages 69-93

  4. Plant–Herbivore Interactions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. Impact of Non-native Mammalian Herbivores on Insular Plant Communities in the Canary and Balearic Islands

      • Miquel Capó, Joana Cursach, Elena Baraza, Juana María González-Mancebo, Juan Rita, Marcelino del Arco et al.
      Pages 97-117

    3. Potential Benefits of Mammalian Herbivores on Insular Systems: The Case of Goats on Mediterranean Islands

      • Jordi Bartolomé, Bartomeu Seguí
      Pages 119-145

    4. Ecology and Evolution of Plant-Enemy Interactions during Early Colonization: Messages from a Land-Rising Archipelago

      • Peter A. Hambäck, Lars Ericson, Johan A. Stenberg
      Pages 147-161

    5. Island Features and Abiotic Factors as Drivers of Insect Leaf Herbivory on Islands

      • Xoaquín Moreira, Carla Vázquez-González, Beatriz Lago-Núñez, Luis Abdala-Roberts
      Pages 163-174

  5. Tritrophic Interactions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
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    2. Food Web Dynamics on Bahamian Islands

      • David A. Spiller, Thomas W. Schoener, Jonah Piovia-Scott
      Pages 177-197

    3. Impact of Predators on Arthropod Herbivores and Herbivory along Mountain Ranges on Islands Versus Mainland

      • Katerina Sam, Anna Mrazova, Marketa Houska Tahadlova, Jan Kollross, Heveakore Maraia
      Pages 199-217

    4. Pest Control in Coffee: A Tri-trophic Comparison between a Mainland and an Island Agroecosystem

      • John Vandermeer, Zachary Hajian-Forooshani, Iris Saraeny Rivera-Salinas, Ivette Perfecto
      Pages 219-238

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 239-251
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About this book

Theory and early empirical work posed that herbivore pressure should be lower on islands than on the mainland owing to lower herbivore abundance and diversity in insular systems. Consequently, plant taxa found on islands are expected to be less protected or even to have lost their defences completely. While early observational studies supported the prediction of lower herbivory and plant defences on islands, recent island-mainland comparisons have yielded mixed results, with some studies finding no differences between islands and mainlands or, surprisingly, higher herbivory and plant defences on islands. In this book, the authors aim to re-assess current theory and initiate a new generation of work on insularity effects on plant-herbivore interactions. This book aims to fill the research gaps by integrating the research that has been done to date and by compiling and summarising new research on insularity effects on plant-herbivore interactions. It provides a critical examinationof the patterns in light of classical theory and identifies potential mechanisms or underlying processes. It also aims to raise new questions that will form the basis for a revised and more robust research programme. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Misión Biológica de Galicia (MBG-CSIC), Pontevedra, Spain

    Xoaquín Moreira

  • Departamento de Ecología, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, Mexico

    Luis Abdala-Roberts

About the editors

​Xoaquín Moreira is interested in the ecological and evolutionary processes that occur among different trophic levels (plants, herbivores and natural enemies), and predict how the future global change might influence various species interactions.


Luis Abdala-Roberts is an ecologist broadly interested in plant-animal interactions, focusing mainly on the effects of variation within (genetic diversity) and among species (e.g. functional diversity) on interactions, and how such effects feedback to shape ecological (trophic control, community stability) and evolutionary (e.g. selection on species traits) processes.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ecology and Evolution of Plant-Herbivore Interactions on Islands

  • Editors: Xoaquín Moreira, Luis Abdala-Roberts

  • Series Title: Ecological Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47814-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-47813-0Published: 05 January 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-47816-1Due: 04 February 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-47814-7Published: 03 January 2024

  • Series ISSN: 0070-8356

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-971X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 251

  • Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Plant Sciences, Zoology, Plant Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Ecology

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