Plant invasions have the potential to affect the community structure of soil nematodes, but little is known about whether such effects are mediated by aboveground herbivores since invasive plants are not completely released from herbivores in the introduced range. In this study, we explored how aboveground insect herbivores mediated the effect of invasive plant Alternanthera philoxeroides on soil nematodes and examined the temporal variations of such an herbivory-elicited effect.

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地上食草动物增加了入侵植物的土壤线虫丰度

植物的入侵有可能影响土壤线虫的群落结构，但是对于这种影响是否由地上的食草动物介导的知之甚少，因为在所引入的范围内入侵植物并未完全从食草动物中释放出来。在这项研究中，我们探讨了地上植食性昆虫如何介导的入侵植物的影响空心莲子草对土壤线虫和研究的这种虫食诱出效果的时间变化。