Název: Induced plant responses, their specificity, and roles in plant defences
Autoři: MEZZOMO, Priscila
Typ dokumentu: Disertační práce
Rok: 2025
Jazyk: eng
Abstrakt: In this thesis, I investigate the interactions between plants and herbivorous insects, focusing on how herbivore-induced chemical defences shape these dynamics in willows and oaks. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter examines how different insect herbivore species, and their traits (i.e., order, feeding guild, diet breadth) influence the defensive responses of willows. In the second chapter, I explored whether the specificity of plant-insect responses observed in the first chapter can be recovered when comparing such responses among various co-occurring willow species. The third chapter explores how these plant responses to herbivory affect multiple trophic levels by observing the dynamics of vertebrate and invertebrate predation in natural populations of two diverse willow species. To expand on my findings, I delve into the seasonal dynamics of plant chemistry and its association with the insect herbivore community. Finally, the last chapter investigates the composition of plant volatile and non-volatile responses to herbivory and the influence of the neighbourhood composition on such responses.
Klíčová slova: chemical ecology; herbivore-induced defences; herbivory; induced plant responses; neighbourhood effects; oaks; plant chemistry; plant-insect interactions; seasonal variation; trophic interactions; volatile organic compounds; willows
Citace: MEZZOMO, Priscila. Induced plant responses, their specificity, and roles in plant defences . České Budějovice, 2025. disertační práce (Ph.D.). JIHOČESKÁ UNIVERZITA V ČESKÝCH BUDĚJOVICÍCH. Přírodovědecká fakulta

Instituce: Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích (web)
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