Animal-Plant Interactions Group: Outputs for 2004/5

The Animal-Plant Interactions Group (APIG)

APIG represents a major research theme within the School, concerning the behavioural, physiological, ecological and evolutionary interactions between animals and plants. The group's publications since 2004 are listed below:

1. Mayntz, D., Raubenheimer, D., Salomon, M., Toft, S. & Simpson, S.J. (2005) Nutrient-specific foraging in invertebrate predators. Science, 307, 111-113.

2. Lester, R.L., Grach, C., Pener, M.P. & Simpson, S.J. (In press, Dec 04) Simuli inducing gregarious colouration and behaviour in nymphs of Schistocerca gregaria. Journal of Insect Physiology.

3. Lee, K.P., Simpson, S.J. & Raubenheimer, D. (In press, Oct 2004) A comparison of nutrient regulation between solitarious and gregarious phases of the specialist caterpillar, Spodoptera exempta (Walker). Journal of Insect Physiology.

4. Simpson, S.J. & Raubenheimer, D. (In press, Sep 2004). Obesity: the protein leverage hypothesis. Obesity Reviews.

5. Despland, E. & Simpson, S.J. (In press, Jun 2004) Surviving the change to warning colouration: density-dependent polyphenism suggests a route for the evolution of aposematism. Chemoecology.

6. Despland, E. & Simpson, S.J. (2005) Food choices of solitarious and gregarious locusts reflect cryptic and aposematic antipredator strategies. Animal Behaviour, 69, 471-479.

7. Haegele, B.F., H-F. Wang, Sehnal, F. & Simpson, S.J. (2004) Effect of crowding, isolation, and transfer from isolation to crowding on the total ecdysteroid content of eggs in Schistocerca gregaria. Journal of Insect Physiology, 50, 621-628.

8. Rogers, S.M., Matheson, T., Sasaki, K., Kendrick, K., Simpson, S.J., Burrows, M. (2004) Substantial changes in central nervous neurotransmitters and neuromodulators accompany phase change in the locust. Journal of Experimental Biology, 207, 3603-3617.

9. Zudaire, E., Simpson, S.J., Illa, I. & Montuenga, L.M. (2004) Dietary influences over proliferating cell nuclear antigen expression in the locust midgut. Journal of Experimental Biology, 207, 2255-2265.

10. Opstad, R., Rogers, S.M., Behmer, S.T. & Simpson, S.J. (2004) Behavioural correlates of phenotypic plasticity in mouthpart chemoreceptor numbers in locusts. Journal of Insect Physiology, 50, 725-736.

11. Simpson, S.J., Sibly, R.M., Lee, K.P., Behmer, S.T. & Raubenheimer, D. (2004) Optimal foraging when regulating intake of multiple nutrients. Animal Behaviour, 68, 1299-1311.

12. Lee, K.P., Raubenheimer, D. & Simpson, S.J. (2004) The effect of nutritional imbalance on compensatory feeding for cellulose-mediated dietary dilution in a generalist caterpillar. Physiological Entomology, 29, 108-117.

13. Despland, E., Rosenberg, J. & Simpson, S.J. (2004) Landscape structure and locust swarming: a satellite's view. Ecography, 27, 381-391.

14. Raubenheimer, D. & Simpson, S.J. (2004) Organismal stoichiometry: quantifying non-independence among food components. Ecology, 85, 1203-1216.

15. Raubenheimer, D. & Simpson, S.J. (2004) Unravelling the tangle of nutritional complexity. Jahrbuch, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2002/3, 275-294.

16. Simpson, S.J. & Raubenheimer, D. (2004) The geometry of human nutrition. Jahrbuch, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2002/3, 295-316.

17. Clissold, F. J., Sanson, G.D. & Read, J. (2004) Indigestibility of plant cell wall by the Australian plague locust, Chortoicetes terminifera. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 112, 159-168

18. Gras E., Read, J., Mach, C., Sanson, G.D. & Clissold, F.J. (2005) Herbivore damage, resource richness and putative defences in juvenile versus adult Eucalyptus leaves. Australian Journal of Botany, 53, 33-44.

19. McArthur, C. & Appleton, R. (2004) Effect of seedling characteristics at planting on browsing of Eucalyptus globulus by rabbits. Australian Forestry, 67, 25-29.

20. O'Reilly-Wapstra, J.M., McArthur, C & Potts, B.M. (2004) Linking plant genotype, plant defensive chemistry and mammal browsing in a Eucalyptus species. Functional Ecology, 18, 677-684

21. Close, D., McArthur, C, Pietrzykowski, E., Fitzgerald, H. & Paterson, S. (2004) Evaluating effects of nursery and post-planting nutrient regimes on leaf chemistry and browsing of eucalypt seedlings in plantations. Forest Ecology and Management, 200, 101-112.

22. Close, D.C., McArthur, C., Hagerman, A.E. & Fitzgerald, H. (2005) Differential stratification of leaf chemistry in eucalypt seedlings due to variation in whole-plant nutrient availability. Phytochemistry, 66, 215-221.

23. O'Reilly-Wapstra, J.M., Potts, B.M., McArthur, C. & Davies, N.W. (2005) Effects of nutrient variability on the genetic based resistance of Eucalyptus globulus to a mammalian herbivore and on plant defensive chemistry. Oecologia,142, 597-605.

24. O'Reilly-Wapstra, J.M., Potts, B.M., McArthur, C., Davies, N.W. & Tilyard, P. (in press, Nov 2004) Inheritance of resistance to mammalian herbivores and of plant defensive chemistry in a Eucalyptus species. Journal of Chemical Ecology.

25. le Mar, K. & McArthur, C. (in press, Nov 2004) Habitat selection by common brushtail possums in a patchy eucalypt forestry environment. Australian Mammalogy.

26. le Mar, K. & McArthur, C. (in press, Feb 2005) Comparison of habitat selection by two sympatric macropods, Thylogale billardierii and Macropus rufogriseus rufogriseus, in a patchy eucalypt forestry environment. Austral Ecology.

27. While, G.M. & McArthur, C (in press, March 2005) Foraging in a risky environment: a comparison of Bennett's wallabies Macropus rufogriseus rufogriseus (Marsupialia: Macropodidae) and red-bellied pademelons Thylogale billardierii (Marsupialia: Macropodidae) in open habitats. Austral Ecology.

28. Gibb, H. & Hochuli, D.F. (2004) Removal experiments reveal limited effects of a dominant species on ant assemblages. Ecology, 85, 648-657.

29. Lassau, S.A. & Hochuli, D.F. (2004) Effects of habitat complexity on ant assemblages: can we generalise across scale? Ecography, 27, 157-164.

30. Goldsbrough, C.L., Hochuli, D.F. & Shine, R. (2004) Fitness benefits of retreat-site selection: spiders, rocks and thermal cues. Ecology, 85, 1635-1641.

31. Lassau, S.A., Hochuli, D.F., Cassis, G. & Reid, C.A.M. (2005) Effects of habitat complexity on forest beetle diversity: do trophic groups respond consistently? Diversity and Distributions, 11, 73-82 .

32. Christie, F.J. & Hochuli, D.F. (In press, November 2004) Elevated Levels of Herbivory in Urban Landscapes: Are Declines in Tree Health More Than an Edge Effect? Ecology and Society.

33. Graham, K.G., Blackwell, G.L. & Hochuli, D.F. (In press, August 2004) Habitat use by the Hastings River Mouse, Pseudomys oralis. Australian Zoologist.

34. Lassau, S.A. & Hochuli, D.F. (In press, July 2004) Wasp community responses to habitat complexity in Sydney sandstone forests. Austral Ecology.

35. Lassau, S.A., Hochuli, D.F., Cassis, G., Flemons P.K.J.& Wilkie, L. (In press, November 2004). Using high-resolution multi-spectral imagery to estimate habitat complexity in open-canopy forests: Can we predict ant community patterns? Ecography.

36. Hochuli, D.F., Gibb, H., Burrows, S.E. & Christie, F.J. (2004) Ecology of Sydney's urban fragments: has fragmentation taken the sting out of insect herbivory? In Urban Wildlife (D. Lunney & S. Burgin, eds), Royal Zoological Society of NSW, Mosman. pp 63-69.

37. Wratten, S.D., Hochuli, D.F., Gurr, G.M. & Tylianakis .J. (In press, August 2004). Conservation, Biodiversity and Integrated Pest Management. In Perspectives in ecological theory and integrated pest management (M. Kogan, & P. Jepson, eds), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

38. Hochuli, D.F., Christie, F.J. & Lomov, B. (In press, September 2004). Invertebrate Biodiversity in Urban Landscapes: Assessing Remnant Habitat and its Restoration. In Comparative Ecology of Cities and Towns (M.D. McDonnell, A. Hahs, & J. Breuste, eds), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

39. Ellis, R., Taylor, C.E., and Drury, H. (2005) University Student Conceptions of Writing (In press 2005) Aust J Education

40. Ellis, R., Taylor, C.E., and Drury, H. (2005) Evaluating writing instruction through an investigation of students' experiences of learning through writing. Instructional Science 33 (1) 49-71.

41. Taylor, C.E., and Drury, H. (2004) The effect of student prior experience, attitudes and expectations on performance in undergraduate science writing. In: G. Rijlaarsdam, Series Editor and G. Rijlaarsdam, H. van der Beerg, & M Cousijns Eds. Studies in Writing, 14, 'Effective Teaching and Learning of Writing' pp 561-574.

42. Peat, M., Taylor, C.E., and Franklin, S. (2005) Re-engineering the undergraduate science curriculum to emphasis the development of lifelong learning skills. Innovations in Education and Teaching International 46 (2).

43. Peat, M., Taylor, C.E., and Franklin, S. (2004) Supporting learning in large undergraduate cohorts through IT based feedback. In: McLoughlin C and Taji A Eds. Teaching in the Sciences: Learner-centred approaches. Haworth Press. NY USA.

44. Irving, A. D., Connell, S. D., Johnston, E. L., Pile, A.J. & Gillanders, B. M. ( In press, 2005) The Response of Encrusting Coralline Algae to Canopy Loss: an Independent Test of Predictions on an Antarctic Coast. Marine Biology.

45. Pile, A.J. & Young, C.M. (In press, 2005) Benthic-pelagic coupling by hexactinellid sponges of the microbial food web in the deep sea. Limnology and Oceanography.

46. Pile, A. J. (In press, 2005) Overlap in diet between co-occurring active suspension feeders on tropical and temperate reefs. Bulletin of Marine Science.

47. Prowse, T. A. A., & Pile, A.J. (In press, 2005) Phenotypic inflexibility across wave exposure gradients in two intertidal snails. Marine Biology Research.

48. Rundle, S.D., Spicer, J.I., Coleman, R.A., Vosper, J. & Soane, J. (2004) Environmental calcium modifies induced defences in snails. Proceedings of the Royal Society B (Suppl.) 271, S67-S70 (DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0106).

49. Coleman, R.A., Browne, M. and Theobalds, T. (2004) Prey aggregation functioning as a group defense via vibration-vigilance: Limpet tenacity changes in response to simulated predator attack. Ecology 85 (4), 1153-115.

50. Coleman, R.A., Underwood, A.J. & Chapman, M.G. (2004) Absence of costs of foraging excursions in relation to limpet aggregation. Journal of Animal Ecology 73 (3), 577-584 (DOI: 10.1111/j.0021-8790.2004.00834.x).

51. Lee, J.T., Widdows, J., Jones, M.B. & Coleman, R.A. (2004) Settlement of megalopae and early juveniles of the velvet swimming crab Necora puber (Decapoda; Portunidae) in flow conditions. Marine Ecology: Progress Series 272, 191-202.

52. Borell, E.M., Foggo, A. & Coleman, R.A. (2004) Herbivore-induced resistance in intertidal macroalgae: Do models developed in terrestrial systems predict herbivore induced resistance in marine plants? Oecologia 140, 328-344 (DOI: 10.1007/s00442-004-1589-0).

53. Jenkins, S.R., Coleman, R.A., Burrows, M.T., Hartnoll, R.G. & Hawkins, S.J. (2005) Regional scale differences in determinism of limpet grazing effects. Marine Ecology: Progress Series 287, 77-86.