@article{fb46573b55304540a46312de70ee908e,
title = "Assessing insect herbivory on broadleaf canopy trees at 19 natural forest sites across Japan",
abstract = "We present the largest freely available herbivory dataset for Japan representing data collected from a network of 19 natural forest sites across the country. Sampled network sites were part of the Monitoring Sites 1000 Project organized by the Ministry of the Environment. Sites were located across a range of climate zones, from subarctic to subtropical, and broadleaf trees (both evergreen and deciduous) were targeted at each site. Litterfall traps were used to assess leaf damage caused by leaf-chewing insects in 2014 and 2015. Using a standardized protocol, we assessed herbivory on 117,918 leaves of 39 dominant tree species. Preliminary analyses suggest that insect herbivory increases with increasing latitude for deciduous broadleaf species. In particular, oak (Quercus crispula) and beech (Fagus crenata) were subject to increased insect herbivory with increasing latitude. In contrast, insect herbivory decreased with increasing latitude in evergreen broadleaf species. The latitudinal gradient of herbivory differed according to leaf type (i.e., evergreen or deciduous). This dataset offers excellent opportunities for meta-analysis and comparative studies of herbivory among various forest types. The complete dataset for this abstract published in the Data Paper section of the journal is available in electronic format in MetaCat in JaLTER at http://db.cger.nies.go.jp/JaLTER/metacat/metacat/ERDP-2021-01.1/jalter-en.",
author = "Hino Takafumi and Yuri Kanno and Shin Abe and Tetsuto Abe and Tsutomu Enoki and Toshihide Hirao and Tsutom Hiura and Kazuhiko Hoshizaki and Hideyuki Ida and Ken Ishida and Masayuki Maki and Takashi Masaki and Shoji Naoe and Mahoko Noguchi and Tatsuya Otani and Takanori Sato and Michinori Sakimoto and Hitoshi Sakio and Masahiro Takagi and Atsushi Takashima and Naoko Tokuchi and Shunsuke Utsumi and Amane Hidaka and Masahiro Nakamura",
note = "Funding Information: We are grateful to Shigeru Niwa, Satoshi N. Suzuki, Hiroko Kurokawa and Yusuke Onoda for valuable advice on the study, and Kazuo Doi, Kazuhiro Onishi, Fumiyo Konishi, Hiroko Ikuma, Keiko Ono and Hitomi Asano for the measuring the herbivory rate. We thank also all individuals who have contributed to obtain the data reported here and facilitate the Forest and Grassland Survey of Monitoring Sites 1000 Project of Ministry of the Environment (see also Supporting Information.pdf). The study was partly supported by the Environmental Research and Technology Development Fund (S‐9‐3) of the Ministry of the Environment, Japan. Funding Information: We are grateful to Shigeru Niwa, Satoshi N. Suzuki, Hiroko Kurokawa and Yusuke Onoda for valuable advice on the study, and Kazuo Doi, Kazuhiro Onishi, Fumiyo Konishi, Hiroko Ikuma, Keiko Ono and Hitomi Asano for the measuring the herbivory rate. We thank also all individuals who have contributed to obtain the data reported here and facilitate the Forest and Grassland Survey of Monitoring Sites 1000 Project of Ministry of the Environment (see also Supporting Information.pdf). The study was partly supported by the Environmental Research and Technology Development Fund (S-9-3) of the Ministry of the Environment, Japan. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 The Ecological Society of Japan",
year = "2021",
month = may,
doi = "10.1111/1440-1703.12215",
language = "English",
volume = "36",
pages = "562--572",
journal = "Ecological Research",
issn = "0912-3814",
publisher = "Springer Japan",
number = "3",
}