Recent publications on insect herbivory

Kozlov, M. V., Stekolshchikov, A. V., Söderman, G., Labina, E. S., Zverev, V. & Zvereva, E. L. (2015) Sap-feeding insects on forest trees along latitudinal gradients in northern Europe: a climate-driven pattern. Global Change Biology, 21, 106–116 (doi: 10.1111/gcb.12682).

Kozlov, M. V., Filippov, B. Yu., Zubrij, N. A. & Zverev, V. (2015) Abrupt changes in invertebrate herbivory on woody plants at the forest-tundra ecotone. Polar Biology, 38, 967-974 (doi: 10.1007/s00300-015-1655-6).

Kozlov, M. V. (2015) Insect herbivory on two willow species in northern Europe is independent of pollution load. Boreal Environment Research, 20, 423-430.

Geiselhardt, S., Hilker, M., Müller, F., Kozlov, M. V. & Zvereva, E. L. (2015) Inter- and intrapopulation variability in the composition of larval defensive secretions of willow-feeding populations of the leaf beetle Chrysomela lapponica (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Journal of Chemical Ecology, 41, 276-286 (doi: 10.1007/s10886-015-0558-x).

Kozlov, M. V. & Zvereva, E. L. (2015). Changes in the background losses of woody plant foliage to insects during the past 60 years: are the predictions fulfilled? Biology Letters, 11, 20150480 (doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2015.0480).

Kozlov, M. V., Lanta, V., Zverev, V. & Zvereva, E. L. (2015) Global patterns in background losses of woody plant foliage to insects. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24, 1126-1135 (doi: 10.1111/geb.12347).

Kozlov, M. V., Stańska, M., Hajdamowicz, I., Zverev, V. & Zvereva, E. L. (2015) Abundance and diversity of arboreal spiders along latitudinal gradients in northern Europe. Ecography, 38, 1026–1035 (doi: 10.1111/ecog.01401).

Kozlov, M. V., Lanta, V., Zverev, V. & Zvereva, E. L. (2015) Background losses of woody plant foliage to insects show variable relationships with plant functional traits across the globe. Journal of Ecology, 103, 1519–1528 (doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12471).

Kozlov, M. V. & Zvereva, E. L. (2016) Industrial pollution affects behaviour of the leafmining moth Stigmella lapponica (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae). Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 158, 69-77 (doi: 10.1111/eea.12376).

Zvereva, E. L. & Kozlov, M. V. (2016) The costs and effectiveness of chemical defenses in herbivorous insects: a meta-analysis. Ecological Monographs, 86, 107-124 (doi: 10.1890/15-0911.1).

Zvereva, E. L., Kozlov, M. V. & Rank, N. E. (2016) Does leaf beetle specialization on toxic host plants protect them from ants? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 119, 201–212 (doi: 10.1111/bij.12801).

Zvereva, E. L., Hunter, M. D., Zverev, V. & Kozlov, M. V. (2016) Factors affecting population dynamics of leaf beetles in a subarctic region: the interplay between climate warming and pollution decline. The Science of the Total Environment, 566-567, 1277-1288 (doi: doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.05.187).

Kozlov, M. V., Zverev, V. & Zvereva, E. L. (2016) Shelters of leaf-tying herbivores decompose faster than untied leaves damaged by free-living insects. The Science of the Total Environment, 568, 946-951 (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.04.121).

Kozlov, M. V., Skoracka, A., Zverev, V., Lewandowski, M. & Zvereva, E. L. (2016) Two birch species demonstrate opposite latitudinal patterns in infestation by gall-making mites in Northern Europe. PLoS ONE, 11(11), e0166641 (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0166641).

Zvereva, E. L., Zverev, V., Kruglova, O. Y. & Kozlov, M. V. (2017) Strategies of chemical anti-predator defences in leaf beetles: is sequestration of plant toxins less costly than de novo synthesis? Oecologia, 183, 93-106 (doi: 10.1007/s00442-016-3743-x).

Kozel, A. V., Zvereva, E. L. & Kozlov, M. V. (2017) Impacts of root herbivory on seedlings of three species of boreal forest trees. Applied Soil Ecology, 117-118, 203-207 (doi 10.1016/j.apsoil.2017.05.011).

Kozlov, M. V., Zverev, V. & Zvereva, E. L. (2017) Combined effects of environmental disturbance and climate warming on insect herbivory in mountain birch in subarctic forests: results of 26-year monitoring. The Science of the Total Environment, 601-602, 802-811 (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.05.230).

Kozlov, M. V., Lanta, V., Zverev, V., Rainio, K., Kunavin, M. A. & Zvereva, E. L. (2017) Decreased losses of woody plant foliage to insects in large urban areas are explained by bird predation. Global Change Biology, 23, 4354-4364 (doi: 10.1111/gcb.13692).

Kozlov, M. V. & Zvereva, E. L. (2017) Background insect herbivory: impacts, patterns and methodology. Progress in Botany, 79, 315-355 (doi 10.1007/124_2017_4).

Zverev, V., Zvereva, E. L. & Kozlov, M. V. (2017) Ontogenetic changes in insect herbivory in birch (Betula pubsecens): the importance of plant apparency. Functional Ecology, 31, 2224-2232 (doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12920).

Kozlov, M. V. & Klemola, T. (2017) Hemispheric asymmetries in herbivory: do they exist? Journal of Ecology, 105, 1571-1574 (doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12825).

Zverev, V., Kozlov, M. V. & Zvereva, E. L. (2017) Variation in defensive chemistry within a Baikal population of Chrysomela lapponica (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): advantages of polyphagy in a multi-enemy world. Population Ecology, 59, 329-341 (doi: 10.1007/s10144-017-0601-6).

Barrio, I. C., Lindén, E., Te Beest, M., Olofsson, J., Rocha, A., Soininen, E. M., Alatalo, J. M., Andersson, T., Asmus, A., Boike, J., Brathen, K. A., Bryant, J. P., Buchwal, A., Bueno, G., Christie, K. S., Denisova, Y. V., Egelkraut, D., Ehrich, D., Fishback, L. A., Forbes, B. C., Gartzia, M., Grogan, P., Hallinger, M., Heijmans, M. M. P. D., Hik, D. S., Hofgaard, A., Holmgren, M., Hoye, T. T., Huebner, D. C., Jónsdóttir, I. S., Kaarlejarvi, E., Kumpula, T., Lange, C. Y. M. J. G., Lange, J., Lévesque, E., Limpens, J., Macias-Fauria, M., Myers-Smith, I., Nieukerken, E. J. van, Normand, S., Post, E. S., Schmidt, N. M., Sitters, J., Sokolov, A., Sokolova, N., Speed, J. D. M., Street, L. E., Sundqvist, M., Suominen, O., Tananaev, N., Tremblay, J.-P., Urbanowicz, C., Uvarov, S. A., Watts, D., Wilmking, M., Wookey, P. A., Zimmermann, H. H., Zverev, V., Kozlov, M. V. (2017) Background invertebrate herbivory on dwarf birch (Betula glandulosa-nana complex) increases with temperature and precipitation across the tundra biome. Polar Biology, 40, 2265–2278 (doi: 10.1007/s00300-017-2139-7).

Zverev, V., Kozlov, M. V., Forsman, A. & Zvereva, E. L. (2018) Ambient temperatures differently influence colour morphs of the leaf beetle Chrysomela lapponica: roles of thermal melanism and developmental plasticity. Journal of Thermal Biology, 74, 100-109 (doi: 10.1016/j.therbio.2018.03.019).

Kozlov, M. V., Gavrikov, D. E., Zverev, V. & Zvereva, E. L. (2018) Local insect damage reduces fluctuating asymmetry in next-year’s leaves of downy birch. Insects, 9, 56 (doi:10.3390/insects9020056).

Zvereva, E. L., Doktorovová, L., Hotová Svádová, K., Zverev, V., Štys, P., Adamová-Ježová, D., Kozlov, M. V. & Exnerová, A. (2018) Defence strategies of Chrysomela lapponica (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) larvae: relative efficacy of secreted and stored defences against insect and avian predators. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 124, 533-546 (doi: 10.1093/biolinnean/bly045).

Kozlov, M. V. & Zverev, V. (2018) Temperature and herbivory, but not pollution, affect fluctuating asymmetry of mountain birch leaves: results of 25-year monitoring around the copper-nickel smelter in Monchegorsk, northwestern Russia. The Science of the Total Environment, 640–641, 678–687 (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.05.328).

Kozlov, M. V., Zverev, V. & Zvereva, E. L. (2018) Do defoliating insects distinguish between symmetric and asymmetric leaves within a plant? Ecological Entomology, 43, 656–664 (doi: 10.1111/een.12642).

Doktorovová, L., Exnerová, A., Hotová Svádová, K., Štys, P., Zverev, V., Kozlov, M.V., Adamová-Ježová, D. & Zvereva, E. L. (2019) Differential bird responses to colour morphs of an aposematic leaf beetle may affect variation in morph frequencies in polymorphic prey populations. Evolutionary Biology, 46, 35–46 (doi: 10.1007/s11692-018-9465-8).

Zvereva, E. L., Hunter, M. D., Zverev, V., Kruglova O., & Kozlov, M. V. (2019) Climate warming leads to decline in frequencies of melanic individuals in subarctic leaf beetle populations. The Science of the Total Environment, 673, 237-244 (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.03.458).

Hunter, M. D. & Kozlov, M. V. (2019) The relative strengths of rapid and delayed density dependence acting on a terrestrial herbivore change along a pollution gradient. Journal of Animal Ecology, 88, 665–676 (doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12930).

Zvereva, E. L. & Kozlov, M. V. (2019) Biases in studies of spatial patterns in insect herbivory. Ecological Monographs, 89, e01361 (doi: 10.1002/ecm.1361).

Castagneyrol, B., Kozlov, M. V., Poeydebat, C., Toïgo, M., Jactel, H. Associational resistance to a pest insect fades with time. Journal of Pest Science (published online; doi: 10.1007/s10340-019-01148-y).

Rheubottom, S. I., Barrio, I. C., Kozlov, M. V., Sokovnina, S., Alatalo, J., Andersson, T., Asmus, A., Baubin, C., Brearley, F. Q., Egelkraut, D. D., Ehrich, D., Gauthier, G., Jónsdóttir, I. S., Konieczka, S., Levesque, E., Olofsson, J., Prévey, J., Slevan-Tremblay, G., Sokolov, A., Sokolova, N., Speed, J. D. M., Suominen, O., Zverev, V., Hik, D. S. Hiding in the background: community-level patterns in invertebrate herbivory across the tundra biome. Polar Biology (published online; doi: 10.1007/s00300-019-02568-3).