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We will hold the 7th IUFRO International Workshop on the Genetics of Tree-Parasite Interactions in Forestry
NOW IS OPEN THE CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - submit your abstract soon
NOW IS OPEN THE CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - submit your abstract soon
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June, 1st, 2020. NEW PAPER acepted in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
Dendroecology in common gardens: Population differentiation and plasticity in resistance, recovery and resilience to extreme drought events in Pinus pinaster.
by Rafa Zas et al.
May, 22, 2020. NEW PAPER aceppted in Functional Ecology
Resource availability drives microevolutionary patterns of plant defences
Xose López-Goldar, Rafael Zas, Luis Sampedro
soon available online @ DOI:10.1111/1365-2435.13610
Resource availability drives microevolutionary patterns of plant defences
Xose López-Goldar, Rafael Zas, Luis Sampedro
soon available online @ DOI:10.1111/1365-2435.13610
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April, 1st, 2020. Congratulations to Carla Vazquez, PhD!! Yesterday she successfully defended her PhD dissertation entitled “Resin ducts as a retrospective proxy of defensive allocation in a Mediterranean pine species: Adaptive variation and plastic responses”.
This was the first time that we participate in a full videoconference academic act of this relevance. Everyone from his own home: candidate, committee, supervisors and audience (up to 57 people online!!). The PhD Committee was composed by Jesús Julio Camarero as President (IPE-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain; https://www.esladendro.com/); Juan Antonio Martín as Secretary (ETS Forest Engineering, UPM, Madrid, Spain; Author ID: 56137418600) and Carmen Romeralo (SLU-Alnarp, Sweden) as the foreign member. Carla presented during 55 minutes a nice Introduction to the topic, followed by the objectives, methods and results of the 4 chapters and finally exposed the conclusions of her work. Then she answered with precision and rigour during 60 minutes the questions, comments and concerns posed by the Committee. Below the titles of the four chapters in the Carla's Thesis:
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February 20th. 2020. We were happy to host our colleague Estrella Luna-Diez, a scientist at School of Bioscience, University of Birmingham, UK. She visited us as Invited Speaker, within the Winter Seminar Series of our Centre, the Misión Biológica de Galicia, (CSIC). She gove us a brilliant presentation about “Priming trees for self-defence”. Then we share a nice lunch and updated about current and future projects. Thanks for coming !! @ELunaDiez
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January 2020. Belén Merelas Meijide recently joined our group as a PhD student! Her PhD dissertation will focus on tolerance and induced defences in Picea abies and Pinus sylvestris, and pine weevil interactions, within a joint FORMAS grant led by Adriana Puentes (SLU, Uppsala, Sweden). Welcome, Belén!
She signed her contract and we all met for discussing her PhD project and new experiments and activities within the grant.
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October 2019. Estefanía Suárez Vidal succesfully presented and defended her Ph. D. dissertation entitled "Response to multiple stressors in Iberian pine trees: Tradeoffs between drought stress and resistance to herbivory" at Escola de Enxeñaría Forestal (Pontevedra, Spain)! She achieved the maximum distinction Summa Cum Laude. Congratulations Fani!
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September 2019. Xosé López Goldar returned from Bordeaux after spending two months at INRA-Bordeaux under the supervision of Dr. Santiago González Martínez at UMR BIOGECO. He sampled adult pine trees from contrasting populations grown in a common garden at INRA to characterise the profile and concentration of plant defences of the stem and needles, looking for potential tradeoffs between traits. This work constitutes part of B4EST, an European-funded H2020 project which focuses on adaptive breeding for productive, sustainable and resilient forests under climate change.
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January 2017. Frauke Fedderwitz give a seminar at the Mision Biologica de Galicia about "Inducing defenses in Swedish forest trees and the reaction of their major pest, the pine weevil"
January 2017. Fani Suárez-Vidal left us to make a 4 months stay in University of Alberta, joining the Nadir Erbilgin's Forest Entomology and Ecology Lab. Great Fani!
November 2016. CONGRATULATIONS FANI!!! New paper accepted in Environmental and Experimental Botany by Estefanía Suarez-Vidal et al. about intraespecific variation in seed mass in Maritime pine and the effect of maternal seed provisioning on seedling performace under abiotic stress (nutrient and water limitation). We conclude that seed mass largely varied across and within pine populations, seeds from unfavorable environments were lighter, seed mass positively affected
germination and early seedling performance, although the benefits of larger seeds were not magnified under stressful conditions.
October 2016. Frauke Fedderwitz, a forest entomology posdoct from the Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Uppsala, Sweden) has joined us until February for studying the induced defence in conifer plants against pest insects.
September 2016. Iago Carreño has presented his Forest Engineering Term Dissertation entitled "Incidencia de Hylobius abietis en el sur de Galicia. Efectos de la gestión silvícola y de la abundancia y continuidad de las masas de pinar en los alrededores", which has been rated with 100%. CONGRATS IAGO!
September 2016. Miguel Benavente has joined our group for one month as training graduate student until August 15th. Welcome Miguel!
July 2016. Andres Reigosa has joined our group for one month as training graduate student until August 15th. Welcome Andres!
July 2016. Our friend Prof. Vicente Rozas is visiting us for two weeks! Great Vicente!!
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June 2016. The 2016 Field Sampling Tour begins!
Teruel, Pirinees, Navafría and more, studying pine processionary moth infested forests and phenotyping Pinus nigra and Pinus sylvestris provenances. Very hard work in nice environments. With the help of ANDREA CORTEGOSO, in her term training period for the Bachelor in Biological Sciences. Welcome ANDREA |
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May, 2016. Making public science talking about the Lenguage of the Forests at the IES Illa de Arousa with our best friends Charo Bañobre and Xurxo Mariño. An amazing day!
May 2016. New grant approved from the Spanish Science and Technology Foundation:
“Adaptive framework for future management of genetic resources in Mediterranean pines”
FUTURPIN, AGL2015- 68274-C3-2-R
Public funds for research 2016- 2018
We are looking for candidate students for PhD Fellowship within this grant!
Please contact us!
May 2016. New paper by Lopez-Goldar et al. accepted in Environmental an Experimental Botany. Congratulations Xose for your paper!!
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April 2016. Prof. Miloň Dvořák is doing a Short Term Scientific Mission within the COST Action PINESTRENGTH in our lab. Milon belongs to the Department of Forest Protection and Wildlife Management, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic. He works on Invasive alien pathogens of broadleaved trees in the Czech Republic.
Patricia Toledo joined the group as a technician. Welcome Patri!!
New paper accepted in PLOS-One about defensive syndromes in young pine trees by Xoaquin Moreira et al. (click for asking us a copy)
New grant received from MINECO for next three yrs - FUTURPIN - An adaptive framework for future management of genetic resources in Mediterranean pines.
We enjoyed the ISCE Merrting in Stockholm and a nice visit to our colleagues Göran Nordlander and Niklas Björklund at the SLU-Uppsala. Thanks!
We finished the 2015 field-sampling campaing. Lot of work in hard conditions but sucessful finish.
Xose López-Goldar is travelling to Ohio State University for a 4 months research stay at Bonello Lab.
Good luck Xose in this exciting collaborative proyect!! New paper accepted in Tree Physiology about susceptibility of different pine species to the pinewood nematode, resulting from the NEMARES colaborative project with our friends from Universidad de Extremadura e Universidade Católica Portuguesa:
M. Nunes, A Soll, L Sampedro, R Zas, M Vasconcelos. Susceptibility to the pinewood nematode (PWN) of four pine species involved in potential range expansion across Europe Congratulations to all the NEMARES team!! Meeting of the FENOPIN project at Pontevedra. Lots of new ideas and funny days with our colleagues Jordi, Jose, Chicho and Ricardo .
New paper accepted in Evolutionary Applications "Correlated genetic effects on reproduction define a domestication syndrome in a forest tree", by Luis Santos-del-Blanco and colleagues from CIFOR-INIA. Congratulations Luis! First seedlings of the Sequía Experiment begin to emerge at the greenhouse. Picture by Fani. GREAT!!
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Luis Sampedro with Camilo Ojea and Maria at the CPI Mosteiro-Meis (Pontevedra, Nov. 2014) talking with their pupils about how photosynthetic bacteria changed the world and how plants can emit and perceive volatile messages from the surrounding environment
- December 2014. NEW PAPER accepted in Trees - Structure and Function by Rafa Zas et al. entitled "Intraspecific variation of anatomical and chemical defensive traits in Maritime pine as factors in susceptibility to the pinewood nematode". It is the first paper from the joint action NEMARES Grant between Misión Biológica de Galicia (CSIC, Spain), Escola Superior de Biotecnologia (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto) and Universidad de Extremadura (Plasencia, Spain). The key message is that migration ability of the PWN through wood tissues significantly differed among Iberian maritime pine provenances and this variation was related to differences in anatomical and chemical defensive traits.
The PWN is a harmful exotic invasive species in Europe.
- December 2014. Xosé has been granted with a travel grant for visiting the Lab of Enrico Bonello, Dpt. of Plant Pathology at the Ohio State University.
- November 2014. We enjoyed a lot making science popular at the Biotechnology Week in the MUNCYT-Coruña (Museo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología) with the talk entitled "Life on Earth - a story of microbes, photosynthesis and evolution" and as well in the Mosteiro-Meis CPI School with our friend Camilo Ojea. See picture above.
- November 2014. NEW PAPER accepted in Tree Physiology about nutrient availability, genetics and herbivory as drivers of phenotypic variation in resin canals of young pine trees by Moreira et al. "Differentiation of persistent anatomical defensive structures is costly and determined by nutrient availability and genetic growth-defence constraints". Congratulations!!
- November 2014. Our new PhD candidate Estefanía Suárez (aka. Fani) went to our FENOPIN experimental site at Segorbe (Castellon) for collecting Aleppo pine cones for a new experiment.
- November 2014. We performed a new experiment about light as a factor driving weevil feeding activity on 3 yr old pine trees FOTOPIN 2. After two weeks of hard work everything looks like ok!
- November 2014. TWO NEW PEOPLE IN THE LAB!! Welcome to Nuria Vázquez (undergraduate student, Environmental Sciences) and Roi Martínez (M.Sc. Thesis candidate - Forestry) who will be with us during the whole winter.
- October 2014. A productive three days meeting at Porto (Universidade Catolica de Portugal) with Dra. Marta Vasconcelos discussing about new papers and activities within the NEMARES project. Lot of work to be done about the PWN!!
- October 28, 2014. Manuel Muñoz has defended his Bachelor Term Paper in Forestry, entitled “Priming of resistance in young pine tree species of pine with methyl jasmonate at low concentrations: alteration of induced resin production”, at the Escuela Universitaria de Ingeniería Técnica Forestal (Universidade de Vigo). He has been rated with 100%. Congratulations Manuel!!
- October 2014. Nuria Vázquez and Roi Martínez will joint for 6 months our group as undergraduate students. Welcome guys!
- October 2014. New paper accepted in Journal or of Biogeography about differences in defensive strategies between American and European young pine trees.
- September 2014. We have attended the International Conference on Mediterranean Pines MEDPINES 5 at Solsona (Barcelona). Good talks and discussions!
- September 2014. Our colleagues Alvin Yanchuk (British Columbia Forest Service) and Ellisabeth Campbell (Canadian Forest Service) have been visiting us for two weeks. Very nice days discussing about forestry, genetic correlations, new projects and fishes.
The PWN is a harmful exotic invasive species in Europe.
- December 2014. Xosé has been granted with a travel grant for visiting the Lab of Enrico Bonello, Dpt. of Plant Pathology at the Ohio State University.
- November 2014. We enjoyed a lot making science popular at the Biotechnology Week in the MUNCYT-Coruña (Museo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología) with the talk entitled "Life on Earth - a story of microbes, photosynthesis and evolution" and as well in the Mosteiro-Meis CPI School with our friend Camilo Ojea. See picture above.
- November 2014. NEW PAPER accepted in Tree Physiology about nutrient availability, genetics and herbivory as drivers of phenotypic variation in resin canals of young pine trees by Moreira et al. "Differentiation of persistent anatomical defensive structures is costly and determined by nutrient availability and genetic growth-defence constraints". Congratulations!!
- November 2014. Our new PhD candidate Estefanía Suárez (aka. Fani) went to our FENOPIN experimental site at Segorbe (Castellon) for collecting Aleppo pine cones for a new experiment.
- November 2014. We performed a new experiment about light as a factor driving weevil feeding activity on 3 yr old pine trees FOTOPIN 2. After two weeks of hard work everything looks like ok!
- November 2014. TWO NEW PEOPLE IN THE LAB!! Welcome to Nuria Vázquez (undergraduate student, Environmental Sciences) and Roi Martínez (M.Sc. Thesis candidate - Forestry) who will be with us during the whole winter.
- October 2014. A productive three days meeting at Porto (Universidade Catolica de Portugal) with Dra. Marta Vasconcelos discussing about new papers and activities within the NEMARES project. Lot of work to be done about the PWN!!
- October 28, 2014. Manuel Muñoz has defended his Bachelor Term Paper in Forestry, entitled “Priming of resistance in young pine tree species of pine with methyl jasmonate at low concentrations: alteration of induced resin production”, at the Escuela Universitaria de Ingeniería Técnica Forestal (Universidade de Vigo). He has been rated with 100%. Congratulations Manuel!!
- October 2014. Nuria Vázquez and Roi Martínez will joint for 6 months our group as undergraduate students. Welcome guys!
- October 2014. New paper accepted in Journal or of Biogeography about differences in defensive strategies between American and European young pine trees.
- September 2014. We have attended the International Conference on Mediterranean Pines MEDPINES 5 at Solsona (Barcelona). Good talks and discussions!
- September 2014. Our colleagues Alvin Yanchuk (British Columbia Forest Service) and Ellisabeth Campbell (Canadian Forest Service) have been visiting us for two weeks. Very nice days discussing about forestry, genetic correlations, new projects and fishes.
- August 2014. Xoaquín Moreira has been granted with a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship and he will join our group at Misión Biológica de Galicia. CONGRATULATIONS XOAQUIN for your performance and endurance!!
- July 2014. New paper published in Heredity about narrow sense heritability of seed weight mean and seed weight within individual variation in Maritime pine. Seed provisioning is a major channel in the transmission of environmental maternal effects.
- June 2014. Estefanía Suarez will joint us as a PhD Candidate with a FPU Research Fellow for studying interference of reduced water availability on defensive strategies in mediterranean pine sps. Welcome Estefanía!
- April to June 2014. We have performed a large field work campaign within the FENOPIN research activities surveying constitutive and induced resin flux and reproductive investment in pine tree stands at Carbonero (Segovia), Zuera (Zaragoza) and Xuño (A Coruña). A big, hard and satisfying effort!! Pictures soon!
March 2014. The Bachelor Term Paper (PFC) by Bea Diz, entitled "Perception of biotic risk in the neighbourhood by young pine trees of two forestry species: changes in the concentration of chemical defences", presented at Universidade de Vigo, Escola de Enxeñeria Técnica Forestal, has been granted with an Accesit by the Sociedad Española de Ciencias Forestales as outstanding paper at the national level.
CONGRATULATIONS BEA!! You must be proud!!
CONGRATULATIONS BEA!! You must be proud!!
February 2014. Luis have completed a nice tour visiting our swedish friends Göran Nordlander, Niklas Björklund and Velemir Ninkovic (SLU, Uppsala) and Anna-Karin Borg-Karlsson (KTH, Stockholm). Lots of meetings and discussion about present and future projects. And also some funny time at field. Thanks! |
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January 2014. New paper accepted in Ecology Letters by Xoaquín Moreira about how trade-offs between constitutive and induced defences drive geographical and climate clines in pine chemical defences.
Abstract - There is increasing evidence that geographic and climatic clines drive the patterns of plant defence allocation and defensive strategies. We quantified early growth rate and both constitutive and inducible chemical defences of 18 Pinaceae species in a common greenhouse environment and assessed their defensive allocation with respect to each species' range across climatic gradients spanning 31o latitude and 2,300m elevation. Constitutive defences traded-off with induced defences, and this defence strategy was associated with growth rate such that slow-growing species invested more in constitutive defence while fast-growing species invested more in inducible defence. The position of each pine species along this trade-off axis was in turn associated with geography; moving poleward and to higher elevations, growth rate and inducible defences decreased, while constitutive defence increased. These geographic patterns in plant defence were most strongly associated with variation in temperature. Climatic and geographical clines thus act as drivers of defence profiles by mediating the constraints imposed by trade-offs, and this dynamic underlays global patterns of defence allocation.
Abstract - There is increasing evidence that geographic and climatic clines drive the patterns of plant defence allocation and defensive strategies. We quantified early growth rate and both constitutive and inducible chemical defences of 18 Pinaceae species in a common greenhouse environment and assessed their defensive allocation with respect to each species' range across climatic gradients spanning 31o latitude and 2,300m elevation. Constitutive defences traded-off with induced defences, and this defence strategy was associated with growth rate such that slow-growing species invested more in constitutive defence while fast-growing species invested more in inducible defence. The position of each pine species along this trade-off axis was in turn associated with geography; moving poleward and to higher elevations, growth rate and inducible defences decreased, while constitutive defence increased. These geographic patterns in plant defence were most strongly associated with variation in temperature. Climatic and geographical clines thus act as drivers of defence profiles by mediating the constraints imposed by trade-offs, and this dynamic underlays global patterns of defence allocation.
December 2013. New paper published in Forest Ecology and Management. A pilot-field study about triggering induced defences for protecting conifer seedlings against the pine weevil.
This if the first paper resulting from our collaborative work with our colleagues at Dpt of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences at Uppsala, Sweden.Read the flier "New method triggers the defense of seedlings against pine weevils" at the SLU website.
You could also view the Audioslides at ScienceDirect Notes in the local newspaper Faro de Vigo (spanish)
Audio podcast from Efervesciencia, making public science at radio with Manuel Vicente
Radio podcast RadioVoz TV interview at RTVG - O Agro
This if the first paper resulting from our collaborative work with our colleagues at Dpt of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences at Uppsala, Sweden.Read the flier "New method triggers the defense of seedlings against pine weevils" at the SLU website.
You could also view the Audioslides at ScienceDirect Notes in the local newspaper Faro de Vigo (spanish)
Audio podcast from Efervesciencia, making public science at radio with Manuel Vicente
Radio podcast RadioVoz TV interview at RTVG - O Agro
Dec 2013. Xose Lopez-Goldar has been granted with a PhD Fellow from the Spanish FPI Program within the FENOPIN project
Sept 2013. PhD candidate Xose L-G (Fundacion Barrie Fellowship) is already at the Anna-Karin Borg-Karlsson Lab (Chemical Ecology, KTH, Stockholm) for general training in GC and characterization of the secondary chemistry of Pinus pinaster provenances.
July 2013. Raul de la Mata PhD dissertation, entitled "Alternatives for improving Pinus pinaster breeding material in the inland part of Galicia, NW Spain" has been awarded by the Diputación de Pontevedra as the 2012 Best Research Ph D Dissertation in Science and Technology.
June 2013. Two new papers accepted!! One about the impact on biotic resistance of maternal effects driven by abiotic stressors in Pinus pinaster (PLOS One) and other about the relevance of microsite nutrient availability and individual tree sensitivity to weather extremes on oak dieback (Plant and Soil).
June 2013. PhD candidate Xose Lopez-Goldar has been granted with a Fundación Barrie Fellowship for visiting during 6 months the Anna-Karin Borg-Karlsson lab at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Congratulations Xosé !!
June 2013. The documental "El lenguaje de los bosques" has been awarded by the Spanish Society of Forest Sciences as an exemplary public science activity.
May 28, 2013. The 'Proyecto Fin de Carrera' (bachelor degree term paper) entitled "Perception of herbivore damage in the neighbourhood by young pine trees" was defended by Bea Diz at Escola de Enxeñeria Forestal, University of Vigo. Great job Bea!! 100%
May 2013. New paper accepted in Phytochemistry about the pattern of defensive responses of two pinespecies against two chewing insects (the pine weevil and the pine processionary caterpillar). First result from our collaboration with the group of Chemical Ecology at the KTH-Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sverige).
May 2013. Project meeting of the NEMARES joint action at Plasencia (University of Extremadura) with our colleagues Alex Solla, Marta Vasconcelos and colaborators in the NEMARES project. Update and grea discussion time about the fantastic results presented by the portuguese partner.
March 2013. New paper accepted in Heredity
Zas R, Cendán C, Sampedro L 2013. Mediation of seed provisioning in the transmission of
environmental maternal effects in Maritime pine. Heredity
Zas R, Cendán C, Sampedro L 2013. Mediation of seed provisioning in the transmission of
environmental maternal effects in Maritime pine. Heredity
April 2013. Xose Lopez Goldar has joined to our group as a PhD candidate for studying the intraespecific genetic variation in defensive strategies and its adaptive value in Maritime pine
February 2013. Parasite Resistant Trees Project Meeting at Stockholm, Sweden, with our colleagues from the SLU, KTH and Umeä PSC.
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January 2013. Raul de la Mata has arrived to Missoula to joint Anna Sala's Lab at the University of Montana.
November 6th. Raul de la Mata has just brilliantly presented his PhD dissertation. A new doctor from the group. It is entitled "Alternatives for improving Pinus pinaster breeding material in the inland part of Galicia, NW Spain" // "Alternativas de mejora de Pinus pinaster Ait. en la zona interior de Galicia". Congratulations Raul!!
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November 5th. New paper accepted studying the genetic variation in phenotypic plasticity of chemical defences against herbivory in Radiata pine Moreira X, Zas R, Sampedro L 2012. Additive genetic variation in resistance traits of an exotic pine species: little evidence for constraints on evolution of resistance against native herbivores. Heredity (in press) |
September 2012. PaReTree Project Meeting at Valsaín (Segovia) with our colleagues from Sverige
Scientific talks & formative visits within the PaReTree SSF Project at Valsaín, Segovia, 26-30 September. Sharing ideas and making fun within this creative and successful north-south connection.
Consult here the PaReTree aim and objectives.
Consult here the PaReTree aim and objectives.
September 2012. Workshop on "Plant-microbe-insect interactions: from molecular mechanisms to ecological implications" sponsored by UNIA at Baeza, Spain. 24th -26th September 2012.
September 2012. Raúl de la Mata has been accepted as Posdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Professor Anna Sala, University of Montana. Great Raúl!!
September 2012. Raúl de la Mata has been accepted as Posdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Professor Anna Sala, University of Montana. Great Raúl!!
August 2012. New paper about the effect of pine species diversity on the community structure accepted in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
While plant diversity is well known to increase primary productivity, whether these bottom-up effects are enhanced by reciprocal top-down effects from upper trophic levels is unknown. We studied whether pine tree species diversity, presence of aphid-tending ants and their interaction determined plant performance and arthropod community structure. We found that pine growth was greater in more diverse assemblages, which showed also increased abundance of ant-tended aphids, but only in presence of mutualistic ants, leading to greater number of both arthropod groups. This effect of plant diversity on ants in turn fed back down to increase plant growth, presumably due to ant suppression of harmful non-aphid herbivores.
While plant diversity is well known to increase primary productivity, whether these bottom-up effects are enhanced by reciprocal top-down effects from upper trophic levels is unknown. We studied whether pine tree species diversity, presence of aphid-tending ants and their interaction determined plant performance and arthropod community structure. We found that pine growth was greater in more diverse assemblages, which showed also increased abundance of ant-tended aphids, but only in presence of mutualistic ants, leading to greater number of both arthropod groups. This effect of plant diversity on ants in turn fed back down to increase plant growth, presumably due to ant suppression of harmful non-aphid herbivores.
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See also a new paper about ant-aphid protective function on pine trees by our friends Vita Manak et al: Manak, V., Nordenhem, H., Björklund, N., Lenoir, L. & Nordlander , G, 2012. Ants protect conifer seedlings from feeding damage by pine weevil Hylobius abietis. Agricultural and Forest Entomology (accepted).
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22 June 2012. Formal launching of the documental "The language of the forests" // "El lenguaje de los bosques" // "A linguaxe dos bosques" . Making public science in forest ecology and plants sciences. Coming soon the galician version.
June 2012. Second meeting of the NEMARES group in Porto (Portugal) host by Marta Vasconcelos group (Plantech, ESB-UCP). Nice days working together and interesting new project arising.
April 2012. Professor Göran Nordlander (SLU, Uppsala, SE) is visiting us these days. Field visits, discussions, grants and new projects around.
April 25, 2012. Ph.D. Thesis by Xoaquín Moreira was awarded by the Diputacion de Pontevedra as the 2011 Best Research Ph D Dissertation in Science and Technology. party coming soon :)
March 2012. Bea Diz, Patricia Casas, Manuel Muñoz and Michel Valle joined our group for doing with us their Degree Term Project
21-26 Feb 2012. Joining the PaReTREE workshop with our northern friends. Umeä, Sweden
Dec 2011. Xoaquín Moreira was granted by the
AEET (Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre) for developing a
research project on "Consequences of host-plant specific diversity on
the ant-aphid mutualism and the structure of arthropod community"
Dec 2011. New paper by Raúl de la Mata accepted in Annals of Forest Science
Nov 2011. Xoaquín Moreira, granted with a Fullbright Postdoctoral Fellow to join Kailen Mooney's Lab, UC-Irvine, USA
http://kmooney.bio.uci.edu/lab/home.html
http://kmooney.bio.uci.edu/lab/home.html
Oct 2011. Raul de la Mata granted with a Scholar Fellow from the Barrie de la Maza Foundation. Great!
Oct 2011. Term Paper by Cesar Cendán, entitled "Fontes de variación no peso da semente de Pinus pinaster e a súa influencia no fenotipo da proxenie", awarded with the Best Research Term Paper in Science and technology 2010 by the Diputacion Provincial de Pontevedra.
http://www.depontevedra.es/?1,24511
