caa a22 4500 463168097 CHVBK 20180406164805.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10530-006-9074-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10530-006-9074-9 Does enemy release matter for invasive plants? evidence from a comparison of insect herbivore damage among invasive, non-invasive and native congeners [Elektronische Daten] [Hong Liu, Peter Stiling, Robert Pemberton] One of the most popular single-factor hypotheses that have been proposed to explain the naturalization and spread of introduced species is the enemy release hypothesis (ERH). One ramification of the ERH is that invasive plants sustain less herbivore damage than their native counterparts in the invaded range. However, introduced plants, invasive or not, may experience less herbivore damage than the natives. Therefore, to test the role of natural enemies in the success of invasive plants, studies should include both invasive as well as non-invasive introduced species. In this study, we employed a novel three-way comparison, in which we compared herbivore damage among native, introduced invasive, and introduced non-invasive Eugenia (Myrtaceae) in South Florida. We found that introduced Eugenia, both invasive and non-invasive, sustained less herbivore damage, especially damage by oligophagous and endophagous insects, than native Eugenia. However, the difference in insect damage between introduced invasive and introduced non-invasive Eugenia was not significant. Escape from herbivores may not account for the spread of invasive Eugenia. We would not have been able to draw this conclusion without inclusion of the non-invasive Eugenia species in the study. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 Biological invasion nationallicence Endophagous insect damage nationallicence Enemy release hypothesis nationallicence Eugenia nationallicence Herbivory nationallicence Introduced species nationallicence Invasive species nationallicence Non-invasive species nationallicence Oligophagous insect damage nationallicence Liu Hong Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Ave, 33620-5200, Tampa, FL, USA aut Stiling Peter Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Ave, 33620-5200, Tampa, FL, USA aut Pemberton Robert USDA, ARS, Invasive Plant Research Lab, 3225 College Ave, 33314, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA aut Biological Invasions Springer Netherlands 9/7(2007-10-01), 773-781 1387-3547 9:7<773 2007 9 10530 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-006-9074-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-006-9074-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Liu Hong Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Ave, 33620-5200, Tampa, FL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Stiling Peter Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Ave, 33620-5200, Tampa, FL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pemberton Robert USDA, ARS, Invasive Plant Research Lab, 3225 College Ave, 33314, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biological Invasions Springer Netherlands 9/7(2007-10-01), 773-781 1387-3547 9:7<773 2007 9 10530 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer