List of works - Scott N Johnson

Above-Belowground Herbivore Interactions in Mixed Plant Communities Are Influenced by Altered Precipitation Patterns

scientific article

Aboveground-belowground herbivore interactions: a meta-analysis.

scientific article

Altered Precipitation Impacts on Above- and Below-Ground Grassland Invertebrates: Summer Drought Leads to Outbreaks in Spring.

scientific article

Amino acid-mediated impacts of elevated carbon dioxide and simulated root herbivory on aphids are neutralized by increased air temperatures

scientific article

Antagonistic interactions between an invasive alien and a native coccinellid species may promote coexistence

scientific article

Aphid Feeding Induces Phytohormonal Cross-Talk without Affecting Silicon Defense against Subsequent Chewing Herbivores

scientific article published on 10 August 2020

Artificial Intelligence in Ecology: A Commentary on a Chatbot's Perspective

Belowground Ecology of Scarabs Feeding on Grass Roots: Current Knowledge and Future Directions for Management in Australasia

scientific article

Benefits from Below: Silicon Supplementation Maintains Legume Productivity under Predicted Climate Change Scenarios

scientific article published on 20 February 2018

Benefits of silicon-enhanced root nodulation in a model legume are contingent upon rhizobial efficacy

scientific article published in 2022

Climate Change and Insect Pests: Resistance Is Not Futile?

scientific article published on 22 March 2018

Climate change, nutrition and immunity: Effects of elevated CO2 and temperature on the immune function of an insect herbivore

scientific article

Climatic Drivers of Silicon Accumulation in a Model Grass Operate in Low- but Not High-Silicon Soils

Codivergence of the primary bacterial endosymbiont of psyllids versus host switches and replacement of their secondary bacterial endosymbionts.

scientific article

Contrasting effects of Miocene and Anthropocene levels of atmospheric CO2 on silicon accumulation in a model grass

scientific article published on 25 November 2020

DRI-Grass: A New Experimental Platform for Addressing Grassland Ecosystem Responses to Future Precipitation Scenarios in South-East Australia.

scientific article published on 20 September 2016

Does the Slow-Growth, High-Mortality Hypothesis Apply Below Ground?

scientific article

Downstairs drivers--root herbivores shape communities of above-ground herbivores and natural enemies via changes in plant nutrients.

scientific article published on 14 March 2013

Drought negates growth stimulation due to root herbivory in pasture grasses

scientific article published on 12 August 2018

Early Root Herbivory Impairs Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Colonization and Shifts Defence Allocation in Establishing Plantago lanceolata.

scientific article

Editorial: Crop Traits for Defense against Pests and Disease: Durability, Breakdown and Future Prospects

scientific article published on 21 February 2017

Effects of elevated temperature and CO2 on aboveground-belowground systems: a case study with plants, their mutualistic bacteria and root/shoot herbivores

scientific article

Elevated atmospheric <scp>CO<sub>2</sub></scp> suppresses silicon accumulation and exacerbates endophyte reductions in plant phosphorus

Elevated atmospheric CO2 impairs aphid escape responses to predators and conspecific alarm signals.

scientific article published on 2 October 2014

Elevated atmospheric CO2 triggers compensatory feeding by root herbivores on a C3 but not a C4 grass

scientific article

Elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations promote ant tending of aphids

scientific article published on 17 May 2018

Elevated carbon dioxide and warming impact silicon and phenolic-based defences differently in native and exotic grasses

scientific article

Get Tough, Get Toxic, or Get a Bodyguard: Identifying Candidate Traits Conferring Belowground Resistance to Herbivores in Grasses

scientific article

Global climate change and above- belowground insect herbivore interactions

scientific article

High nymphal host density and mortality negatively impact parasitoid complex during an insect herbivore outbreak.

scientific article

Impacts of silicon-based grass defences across trophic levels under both current and future atmospheric CO2 scenarios

scientific article

Insect herbivory in a mature Eucalyptus woodland canopy depends on leaf phenology but not CO2 enrichment.

scientific article

Investigating preference-performance relationships in aboveground-belowground life cycles: a laboratory and field study with the vine weevil (Otiorhynchus sulcatus)

scientific article published on August 26, 2011

Leaf silicification provides herbivore defence regardless of the extensive impacts of water stress

scientific article published in 2021

Novel In vitro Procedures for Rearing a Root-Feeding Pest (Heteronychus arator) of Grasslands

scientific article published on 30 August 2016

Plant herbivore protection by arbuscular mycorrhizas: a role for fungal diversity?

scientific article

Plant silicon defences reduce the performance of a chewing insect herbivore which benefits a contemporaneous sap‐feeding insect

scientific article published in 2022

Responses of leaf beetle larvae to elevated [CO₂] and temperature depend on Eucalyptus species.

scientific article

Root Herbivores Drive Changes to Plant Primary Chemistry, but Root Loss Is Mitigated under Elevated Atmospheric CO2.

scientific article

Root damage by insects reverses the effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on Eucalypt seedlings.

scientific article

Root-feeding insects and their interactions with organisms in the rhizosphere

scientific article published on January 2015

Roots under attack: contrasting plant responses to below- and aboveground insect herbivory

scientific article

Short‐term exposure to silicon rapidly enhances plant resistance to herbivory

scientific article published in 2021

Short‐term resistance that persists: Rapidly induced silicon anti‐herbivore defence affects carbon‐based plant defences

scientific article published in 2020

Siliceous and non‐nutritious: Nitrogen limitation increases anti‐herbivore silicon defences in a model grass

scientific article published in 2021

Silicon accumulation suppresses arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal colonisation in the model grass Brachypodium distachyon

Silicon and <i>Epichloë</i>‐endophyte defences in a model temperate grass diminish feeding efficiency and immunity of an insect folivore

scientific article published in 2023

Silicon enrichment alters functional traits in legumes depending on plant genotype and symbiosis with nitrogen‐fixing bacteria

scientific article published in 2021

Silicon is an inducible and effective herbivore defence against Helicoverpa punctigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in soybean

scientific article published on 09 December 2019

Silicon supplementation and jasmonate activation synergistically increase phenolic defences against a legume herbivore

scientific article published in 2023

Silicon suppresses a ubiquitous mite herbivore and promotes natural enemy attraction by altering plant volatile blends

scientific article published in 2021

Simulated Herbivory: The Key to Disentangling Plant Defence Responses

scientific article published on 26 February 2019

Targeted plant defense: silicon conserves hormonal defense signaling impacting chewing but not fluid-feeding herbivores

scientific article published on 20 November 2020

The Importance of Testing Multiple Environmental Factors in Legume-Insect Research: Replication, Reviewers, and Rebuttal

scientific article

The Role of Silicon in Antiherbivore Phytohormonal Signalling

scientific article published on 18 September 2019

Trade-Offs between Silicon and Phenolic Defenses may Explain Enhanced Performance of Root Herbivores on Phenolic-Rich Plants.

scientific article published on August 2016

Unravelling mummies: cryptic diversity, host specificity, trophic and coevolutionary interactions in psyllid - parasitoid food webs

scientific article

When resistance is futile, tolerate instead: silicon promotes plant compensatory growth when attacked by above- and belowground herbivores

scientific article published on 31 July 2019

List of works by Scott N Johnson

Above-Belowground Herbivore Interactions in Mixed Plant Communities Are Influenced by Altered Precipitation Patterns

Aboveground-belowground herbivore interactions: a meta-analysis.

Altered Precipitation Impacts on Above- and Below-Ground Grassland Invertebrates: Summer Drought Leads to Outbreaks in Spring.

Amino acid-mediated impacts of elevated carbon dioxide and simulated root herbivory on aphids are neutralized by increased air temperatures

Antagonistic interactions between an invasive alien and a native coccinellid species may promote coexistence

Aphid Feeding Induces Phytohormonal Cross-Talk without Affecting Silicon Defense against Subsequent Chewing Herbivores

Artificial Intelligence in Ecology: A Commentary on a Chatbot's Perspective

Belowground Ecology of Scarabs Feeding on Grass Roots: Current Knowledge and Future Directions for Management in Australasia

Benefits from Below: Silicon Supplementation Maintains Legume Productivity under Predicted Climate Change Scenarios

Benefits of silicon-enhanced root nodulation in a model legume are contingent upon rhizobial efficacy

Climate Change and Insect Pests: Resistance Is Not Futile?

Climate change, nutrition and immunity: Effects of elevated CO2 and temperature on the immune function of an insect herbivore

Climatic Drivers of Silicon Accumulation in a Model Grass Operate in Low- but Not High-Silicon Soils

Codivergence of the primary bacterial endosymbiont of psyllids versus host switches and replacement of their secondary bacterial endosymbionts.

Contrasting effects of Miocene and Anthropocene levels of atmospheric CO2 on silicon accumulation in a model grass

DRI-Grass: A New Experimental Platform for Addressing Grassland Ecosystem Responses to Future Precipitation Scenarios in South-East Australia.

Does the Slow-Growth, High-Mortality Hypothesis Apply Below Ground?

Downstairs drivers--root herbivores shape communities of above-ground herbivores and natural enemies via changes in plant nutrients.

Drought negates growth stimulation due to root herbivory in pasture grasses

Early Root Herbivory Impairs Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Colonization and Shifts Defence Allocation in Establishing Plantago lanceolata.

Editorial: Crop Traits for Defense against Pests and Disease: Durability, Breakdown and Future Prospects

Effects of elevated temperature and CO2 on aboveground-belowground systems: a case study with plants, their mutualistic bacteria and root/shoot herbivores

Elevated atmospheric <scp>CO<sub>2</sub></scp> suppresses silicon accumulation and exacerbates endophyte reductions in plant phosphorus

Elevated atmospheric CO2 impairs aphid escape responses to predators and conspecific alarm signals.

Elevated atmospheric CO2 triggers compensatory feeding by root herbivores on a C3 but not a C4 grass

Elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations promote ant tending of aphids

Elevated carbon dioxide and warming impact silicon and phenolic-based defences differently in native and exotic grasses

Get Tough, Get Toxic, or Get a Bodyguard: Identifying Candidate Traits Conferring Belowground Resistance to Herbivores in Grasses

Global climate change and above- belowground insect herbivore interactions

High nymphal host density and mortality negatively impact parasitoid complex during an insect herbivore outbreak.

Impacts of silicon-based grass defences across trophic levels under both current and future atmospheric CO2 scenarios

Insect herbivory in a mature Eucalyptus woodland canopy depends on leaf phenology but not CO2 enrichment.

Investigating preference-performance relationships in aboveground-belowground life cycles: a laboratory and field study with the vine weevil (Otiorhynchus sulcatus)

Leaf silicification provides herbivore defence regardless of the extensive impacts of water stress

Novel In vitro Procedures for Rearing a Root-Feeding Pest (Heteronychus arator) of Grasslands

Plant herbivore protection by arbuscular mycorrhizas: a role for fungal diversity?

Plant silicon defences reduce the performance of a chewing insect herbivore which benefits a contemporaneous sap‐feeding insect

Responses of leaf beetle larvae to elevated [CO₂] and temperature depend on Eucalyptus species.

Root Herbivores Drive Changes to Plant Primary Chemistry, but Root Loss Is Mitigated under Elevated Atmospheric CO2.

Root damage by insects reverses the effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on Eucalypt seedlings.

Root-feeding insects and their interactions with organisms in the rhizosphere

Roots under attack: contrasting plant responses to below- and aboveground insect herbivory

Short‐term exposure to silicon rapidly enhances plant resistance to herbivory

Short‐term resistance that persists: Rapidly induced silicon anti‐herbivore defence affects carbon‐based plant defences

Siliceous and non‐nutritious: Nitrogen limitation increases anti‐herbivore silicon defences in a model grass

Silicon accumulation suppresses arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal colonisation in the model grass Brachypodium distachyon

Silicon and <i>Epichloë</i>‐endophyte defences in a model temperate grass diminish feeding efficiency and immunity of an insect folivore

Silicon enrichment alters functional traits in legumes depending on plant genotype and symbiosis with nitrogen‐fixing bacteria

Silicon is an inducible and effective herbivore defence against Helicoverpa punctigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in soybean

Silicon supplementation and jasmonate activation synergistically increase phenolic defences against a legume herbivore

Silicon suppresses a ubiquitous mite herbivore and promotes natural enemy attraction by altering plant volatile blends

Simulated Herbivory: The Key to Disentangling Plant Defence Responses

Targeted plant defense: silicon conserves hormonal defense signaling impacting chewing but not fluid-feeding herbivores

The Importance of Testing Multiple Environmental Factors in Legume-Insect Research: Replication, Reviewers, and Rebuttal

The Role of Silicon in Antiherbivore Phytohormonal Signalling

Trade-Offs between Silicon and Phenolic Defenses may Explain Enhanced Performance of Root Herbivores on Phenolic-Rich Plants.

Unravelling mummies: cryptic diversity, host specificity, trophic and coevolutionary interactions in psyllid - parasitoid food webs

When resistance is futile, tolerate instead: silicon promotes plant compensatory growth when attacked by above- and belowground herbivores

Why do plants silicify?