Data from: Museum specimens provide novel insights into changing plant-herbivore interactions

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Data from: Museum specimens provide novel insights into changing plant-herbivore interactions Meineke, Emily K.; Davies, T. Jonathan

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Mounting evidence shows that species interactions may mediate how individual species respond to climate change. However, long-term anthropogenic effects on species interactions are poorly characterized due to a lack of data. Insect herbivory is a major ecological process that represents the interaction between insect herbivores and their host plants, but historical data on insect damage to plants is particularly sparse. Here, we suggest that museum collections of insects and plants can fill key gaps in our knowledge on changing trophic interactions, including proximate mechanisms and the net outcomes of multiple global change drivers across diverse insect herbivore-plant associations. We outline theory on how global change may affect herbivores and their host plants and highlight the unique data that could be extracted from museum specimens to explore their shifting interactions. We aim to provide a framework for using museum specimens to explore how some of the most diverse co-evolved relationships are responding to climate and land use change.
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Sooty mould data from Box 2

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Title	Data from: Museum specimens provide novel insights into changing plant-herbivore interactions
Creator	Meineke, Emily K.; Davies, T. Jonathan
Date Issued	2021-05-19
Description	Abstract Mounting evidence shows that species interactions may mediate how individual species respond to climate change. However, long-term anthropogenic effects on species interactions are poorly characterized due to a lack of data. Insect herbivory is a major ecological process that represents the interaction between insect herbivores and their host plants, but historical data on insect damage to plants is particularly sparse. Here, we suggest that museum collections of insects and plants can fill key gaps in our knowledge on changing trophic interactions, including proximate mechanisms and the net outcomes of multiple global change drivers across diverse insect herbivore-plant associations. We outline theory on how global change may affect herbivores and their host plants and highlight the unique data that could be extracted from museum specimens to explore their shifting interactions. We aim to provide a framework for using museum specimens to explore how some of the most diverse co-evolved relationships are responding to climate and land use change.; Usage notes Sooty mould data from Box 2
Subject	Other; 1877-2008; Carya ovata; Species Interactions; Plant; herbivore; Quercus bicolor
Geographic Location	northeastern US
Type	Dataset
Notes	Dryad version number: 1 Version status: submitted Dryad curation status: Published Sharing link: https://datadryad.org/stash/share/bHeYBqwAe4NZFDEOQcyTFUoeYL_XSU7ra8Knkxzqs_E</p> Storage size: 64692 Visibility: public
Date Available	2020-06-30
Provider	University of British Columbia Library
License	CC0 1.0
DOI	10.14288/1.0397956
URI	https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/V2CWPE
Publisher DOI	https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/V2CWPE; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.cq2k7sq
Grant Funding Agency	National Science Foundation
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
Aggregated Source Repository	Dataverse

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