Edward B. Mondor's research while affiliated with Georgia Southern University and other places

... Predation on native insects from Minimal research has been conducted into how the presence of open wounds on carcasses influences their use by invasive and native insects. Both Meehan et al., (2005) and Munro et al., (2019) revealed that flies occur in higher abundance when carrion is split open, due to the enhanced release of olfactory signals. It is logical then that if carcasses have open wounds, this may also intensify invasive wasp activity and their predatory impacts on flies. ...

... Кроме того, виды тли тоже различаются по реакции на повышение концентрации СО 2 [188], что, в свою очередь, может оказать влияние как на внутри-, так и межвидовую конкуренцию насекомых. Заслуживают также внимания данные, согласно которым энтомофаги становятся более активными врагами тли при повышенной концентрации СО 2 [43,188] и что тли становятся менее чувствительными к феромонам в этих условиях [102,189]. Все это может усиливать негативный эффект тлей на метаболизм растения-хозяина [190]. ...

... The study on population dynamics of aphids has long been of interest to scientists and crop producers because of the destruction that aphids cause in agricultural crops (Mondor and Roitberg 2000). The polyphagous cosmopolitan aphid, Aphis gossypii Glover (Homoptera: Aphididae), not only remove nutrients from phloem of the plants, but is also capable of transmitting plant viruses (Blackman and Eastop 1984). ...

... The only species that produced fewer extrafloral nectaries was S. surattensis, the one that bears multiple nectaries per leaf; all other species we studied have only one. Multiple nectaries may be a more labile trait and are a characteristic of other species that have been found to produce more nectaries with defoliation, such as Mallotus japonicus (Euphorbiaceae) [41], Sapium sebiferum (Euphorbiaceae) [29], Prunus avium (Rosaceae) [40], and Vicia faba (Fabaceae) [38,43]. However, the response of S. surattensis was to produce fewer, not more, foliar nectaries with higher levels of defoliation. ...

... Land use and cover change directly affect biotic diversity (Andrieu et al., 2007;Seabrook et al., 2007), contribute to local and regional climate change (IPCC, 2001) as well as to global climate warming (IPCC, 2007), and is a primary source of soil degradation (Ruysschaert et al., 2007). Land use change also contributes to regional and global changes in atmospheric composition (IPCC, 2007) thus affecting the quality and quantity of primary production (Lindroth et al., 2009). Changes in atmospheric composition directs new forms of plant growth and chemical composition that not only affect livestock production, but also influence trophic interactions that may accelerate further land use changes. ...

... Similarly, pea aphids reared in isolation produce less EBF, ostensibly because they conserve the cost of its production when conspecifics are not present to benefit from alarm signaling (111). EBF emission events have been shown to induce instar-and genotype-specific responses that collectively alter the spatial organization of aphid colonies to generate defensive benefits (27,51). ...

... Plant-associated rhizobial symbionts have been shown to not only fix atmospheric nitrogen supporting their host's primary metabolism but also to affect a wide variety of indirect and direct plant defenses (Summers and Mondor 2011;(Ballhorn et al. 2013c;Dean et al. 2014;Godschalx et al. 2015). Indirect plant defenses include extrafloral nectar (EFN) and the release of air-borne signaling molecules (VOCs; volatile organic compounds) that attract predators and parasitoids of herbivorous invertebrates (Turlings et al. 1990;Thaler 1999;Turlings and Wäckers 2004). ...

... • Aphid Cornicles and Their Secretions host plants (22), indicating that sequestered plant compounds may synergize or modify responses to EBF. The ontogeny of alarm pheromone production in the pea aphid mirrors the proportional elongation of cornicles across developmental stages (69), which peaks between the second and fourth instars, when secretion events are more frequent (66). In Rhopalosiphum padi, synthesis of EBF begins in the embryo stage and is modulated by the developmental environment, specifically the presence of conspecifics; aphids reared in solitude produce lower levels, likely reflecting the social functions of this compound (100). ...

... In the absence of predation pressure, the release of Eβf in their constitutive volatile emissions might be advantageous for plants to reduce herbivory pressure in, at least, three different ways ): (i) plants might directly avoid the settling of aphids by repelling them via the continuous release of their alarm signal; (ii) plants might disrupt the feeding episodes of aphids, reducing the direct fi tness of aphids; or (iii) plants might infl uence the production of winged offspring, reducing herbivory pressure. Moreover, plants might also habituate aphids to this semiochemical and make them less reactive to short-or long-term release events of Eβf (Petrescu et al. 2001, or might enhance the attraction of natural enemies (see below). ...

... Forensic entomologists debate the exact nature of what it is they provide to a death investigation by analyzing insect evidence (Catts 1992;Wallace et al. 2006, Tomberlin et al. 2011Amendt et al. 2007;Huntington et al. 2007;Wells 2013Wells , 2014aCampobasso and Introna 2014;Michaud et al. 2014;Tarone et al. 2014). If one stays in the field long enough, it becomes clear that such conversations can range from polite and professional, to disrespectful and angry. ...