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Biological invasion into the nested assemblage of tree–beetle associations on the oceanic Ogasawara Islands

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Invasion by alien organisms is a common worldwide phenomenon, and many alien species invade native communities. Invasion by alien species is especially likely to occur on oceanic islands. To determine how alien species become integrated into island plant–insect associations, we analyzed the structure of tree–beetle associations using host plant records for larval feeding by wood-feeding beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) on the oceanic Ogasawara Islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The host plant records comprised 109 associations among 28 tree (including 8 alien) and 26 cerambycid (including 5 alien) species. Of these associations, 41.3% involved at least one alien species. Most native cerambycid species feed on host trees that have recently died. Alien trees were used by as many native cerambycid species (but by significantly more alien cerambycid species) as were native trees. Native cerambycid species used as many alien tree species (but significantly more native tree species) as did alien cerambycids. Thus, we observed many types of interactions among native and alien species. A network analysis revealed a significant nested structure in tree–cerambycid associations regardless of whether alien species were excluded from the analysis. The original nested associations on the Ogasawara Islands may thus have accepted alien species.

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Acknowledgments

We thank three anonymous reviewers for helpful advice on this manuscript. We also thank K. Wada and H. Umeno for helping with beetle sampling on the Ogasawara Islands. We thank the staff of the National Forest Division of the Ogasawara General Office for allowing us to take samples. This study was funded by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment.

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    Shinji Sugiura, Yuichi Yamaura & Hiroshi Makihara

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Sugiura, S., Yamaura, Y. & Makihara, H. Biological invasion into the nested assemblage of tree–beetle associations on the oceanic Ogasawara Islands. Biol Invasions 10, 1061–1071 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-007-9184-z

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