期刊
REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY
卷 251, 期 -, 页码 28-72出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2018.01.002
关键词
Calamites; Damage type; Functional feeding group; Hemiptera; Macroneuropteris scheuchzeri; Sigillaria
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41210001]
- State Scholarship Fund of China Scholarship Council (CSC) [201406380049]
Insect herbivory during the Pennsylvanian Permian transition interval (late Gzhelian) was estimated from the Williamson Drive locality of north-central Texas, USA. We investigated vegetational composition and the response of host plants to herbivores by characterization of insect-damage patterns. The bulk flora consists of four major plant groups: lycophytes, sphenophytes, pteridophytes, and pteridosperms, as well as unaffiliated morphotypes. Forty-six distinctive damage types (DTs) were recognized from 17 herbivorized plant-host taxa that were categorized into the five functional feeding groups (FFGs) of external foliage feeding (20 DTs), oviposition (11 DTs), piercing and sucking (9 DTs), galling (5 DTs), and wood boring (1 DT). The distributional patterns of FFGs and DTs on the most herbivorized plant hosts indicate several generalized and specialized patterns and organization into distinctive component communities. The overall herbivory level in the flora is elevated compared to other Cisuralian floras of north-central Texas, based on separate analyses of foliar surface area removed (0.86%) and frequency of herbivorized leaves (19.83%). One ubiquitous plant host, Macroneuropteris scheuchzeri (Hoffmann) Cleal, Shute and Zodrow, is disproportionately consumed, representing 35.75% of all specimens, but contributing 84.38% of the total herbivorized surface area, 60.87% of DT richness, and 55.44% of the DT abundance from all plant species. A notable feature is the abundance of nine piercing-and-sucking DTs on several hosts, representing three of the four new DTs described in this flora and indicating the ecological expansion of this FFG by Paleodictyopteroidea and earliest Hemipteroidea. There is evidence for physical and chemical antiherbivore defense afforded by trichomes and resin ducts of two major host plants, but the absence of seed predation is curious. Analyses of herbivory at Williamson Drive and four younger Cisuralian floras of the region support Feeny's apparency hypothesis. The overwhelming dominance of M. scheuchzeri herbivory at Williamson Drive, absent in earlier, peat-substrated Pennsylvanian floras, is typical of Cisuralian mineral-substrated plants. (C) 2017 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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