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Review
. 2012 Dec;160(4):1719-27.
doi: 10.1104/pp.112.206524. Epub 2012 Oct 5.

Consequences of climate warming and altered precipitation patterns for plant-insect and multitrophic interactions

Mary A Jamieson  1 , Amy M Trowbridge, Kenneth F Raffa, Richard L Lindroth
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Review

Consequences of climate warming and altered precipitation patterns for plant-insect and multitrophic interactions

Mary A Jamieson et al. Plant Physiol. 2012 Dec.
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Key traits and processes underlying the response of plants, insect herbivores, and higher trophic level organisms to climate change. Solid arrows represent direct effects of climate change on species traits (in boxes). Dashed arrows represent indirect effects resulting from altered trophic interactions (traits along arrows). The gray box highlights indirect effects that can influence species interactions between and across trophic levels. At the organismal level, direct effects are driven by modifications in climate-sensitive metabolic and physiological processes. At the population level, altered mortality and reproduction due to climate change can affect population growth and drive evolutionary change. At the community level, shifts in spatial and temporal distributions of interacting species may alter resource availability and quality for consumers and top-down controls on plant productivity. In turn, these direct and indirect effects may lead to cascading and feedback effects on ecosystem level traits, including carbon sequestration and net ecosystem production.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Overview of literature examining effects of climate warming on plants, insects, and higher trophic level organisms. A, Cumulative number of studies (log scale) from 1980 to 2012 located using Web of Knowledge. Common topic and boolean search terms included (“climate change” or “global change”) and (temperature or warming) and (growth or development or phenology). Unique search terms for individual trophic categories (graphed lines) included (1) plant (not insect), (2) insect, (3) insect and (herbiv* or outbreak), (4) insect and (parasit* or predator* or tritrophic or multitrophic). B, Comparison of studies on (1) plants, (2) plant-insect interactions, and (3) higher trophic or multitrophic level interactions. Search terms were the same as those used in A, excluding the section representing plant-insect interactions, which involved search terms insect and plant. All searches were conducted August 15, 2012 using Web of Knowledge at the University of Wisconsin.
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