Arthropod and pathogen damage on fossil and modern plants: Exploring the origins and evolution of herbivory on land

CC Labandeira, T Wappler - Annual Review of Entomology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The use of the functional feeding group–damage type system for analyzing arthropod and
pathogen interactions with plants has transformed our understanding of herbivory in fossil …

Fossil leaves reveal drivers of herbivore functional diversity during the Cenozoic

J Albrecht, T Wappler, SA Fritz… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Herbivorous arthropods are the most diverse group of multicellular organisms on Earth. The
most discussed drivers of their inordinate taxonomic and functional diversity are high niche …

Insect herbivory within modern forests is greater than fossil localities

L Azevedo-Schmidt, EK Meineke… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Fossilized leaves provide the longest running record of hyperdiverse plant–insect herbivore
associations. Reconstructions of these relationships over deep time indicate strong links …

Interactive effects of temperature, aridity, and plant stoichiometry on insect herbivory: past and present

A Swain, LE Azevedo-Schmidt… - The American …, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
The influence of climate on deep-time plant-insect interactions is becoming increasingly well
known, with temperature, CO2 increases (and associated stoichiometric changes in plants) …

Fossil insect‐feeding traces indicate unrecognized evolutionary history and biodiversity on Australia's iconic Eucalyptus

LA Giraldo, P Wilf, MP Donovan, RM Kooyman… - New …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Fossilized plant–insect herbivore associations provide fundamental information about the
assembly of terrestrial communities through geologic time. However, fossil evidence of …

Comprehensive survey of Early to Middle Triassic Gondwanan floras reveals under-representation of plant–arthropod interactions

HA Turner, S McLoughlin, C Mays - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Plants and arthropods are primary drivers of terrestrial ecosystem function. Trace fossils of
plant–arthropod interactions (PAIs) provide a unique window into assessing terrestrial …

Understanding the ecology of host plant–insect herbivore interactions in the fossil record through bipartite networks

A Swain, SA Maccracken, WF Fagan, CC Labandeira - Paleobiology, 2022 - cambridge.org
Plant–insect associations have been a significant component of terrestrial ecology for more
than 400 Myr. Exploring these interactions in the fossil record through novel perspectives …

Sampling bias and the robustness of ecological metrics for plant–damage‐type association networks

A Swain, LE Azevedo‐Schmidt, SA Maccracken… - Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Plants and their insect herbivores have been a dominant component of the terrestrial
ecological landscape for the past 410 million years and feature intricate evolutionary …

Plant-insect interactions in the mid-Cretaceous paleotropical El Chango Lagerstätte (Cintalapa Fm., Mexico)—patterns of herbivory during the Angiosperm Terrestrial …

AA Santos, S McLoughlin… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Plants and insects are two of the more diverse and abundant organisms in terrestrial
ecosystems. The fossil record of plant-insect interactions offers crucial insights into the …

Arthropod interactions with the Permian Glossopteris flora

S McLoughlin, R Prevec, B Slater - Journal of Palaeosciences, 2021 - diva-portal.org
An extensive survey of literature on the Permian floras of Gondwana reveals over 400
discrete arthropod–herbivory–damage/plant–taxon/stratigraphic–unit associations spanning …