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Takayuki Ohgushi

Takayuki Ohgushi

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
38
Citations
5070
World Ranking
6692
National Ranking
46

Overview

Takayuki Ohgushi is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with notable contributions in related subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, Insect Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Plant Science.

The scientist's work broadly covers topics including Plant and Animal Studies, Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Weed Control and Herbicide Applications, Hemiptera Insect Studies, and Forest Insect Ecology and Management.

Takayuki Ohgushi has authored several papers published in various scientific journals. Recent papers include:

  • Density regulation of co-occurring herbivores via two indirect effects mediated by biomass and non-specific induced plant defenses (2020, Theoretical Ecology)
  • Environmentally triggered variability in the genetic variance-covariance of herbivory resistance of an exotic plant Solidago altissima (2020, Ecology and Evolution)
  • Asymmetric interactions between two butterfly species mediated by food demand (2023, Ecology and Evolution)
  • Population genomics and genetic diversity of the invasive chrysanthemum lace bug (Corythucha marmorata) across its invasive range in Japan (2025, Biological Invasions)
  • Exotic herbivores indirectly decelerate litter decomposition via increased resistance to herbivory in exotic plants (2025, Functional Ecology)

The journals in which they have most frequently published include Ecology and Evolution, Theoretical Ecology, Biological Invasions, and Functional Ecology.

Takayuki Ohgushi has collaborated with several coauthors over the years. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Timothy P. Craig
  • Yuzu Sakata
  • Shunsuke Utsumi
  • Joanne K. Itami
  • Mito Ikemoto

Best Publications

  • Indirect Interaction Webs: Herbivore-Induced Effects Through Trait Change in Plants

    Takayuki Ohgushi

  • Effects of resource distribution on animal-plant interactions

    Samuel J. McNaughton;Mark D. Hunter;Takayuki Ohgushi;Peter W. Price

  • Trait-mediated indirect interactions : ecological and evolutionary perspectives

    Takayuki Ohgushi;Oswald Schmitz;Robert D. Holt

  • Herbivore-induced indirect interaction webs on terrestrial plants: the importance of non-trophic, indirect, and facilitative interactions

    Takayuki Ohgushi

  • Bottom-up trophic cascades and material transfer in terrestrial food webs

    Hideki Kagata;Takayuki Ohgushi

  • Ecological communities: Plant mediation in indirect interaction webs

    Takayuki Ohgushi;Timothy P Craig;Peter W. Price

  • Positive and negative impacts of insect frass quality on soil nitrogen availability and plant growth

    Hideki Kagata;Takayuki Ohgushi

  • Gall initiation enhances the availability of food resources for herbivorous insects

    M. Nakamura;Y. Miyamoto;T. Ohgushi

  • Population equilibrium with respect to available food resource and its behavioural basis in an herbivorous lady beetle, Henosepilachna niponica

    Takayuki Ohgushi;Hiroichi Sawada

  • Plant genotypic diversity increases population size of a herbivorous insect

    Shunsuke Utsumi;Yoshino Ando;Timothy P. Craig;Takayuki Ohgushi

  • Resource limitation on insect herbivore populations

    Takayuki Ohgushi

  • Do plant- and soil-mediated legacy effects impact future biotic interactions?

    Susanne Wurst;Takayuki Ohgushi

  • A reproductive tradeoff in an herbivorous lady beetle: egg resorption and female survival.

    Takayuki Ohgushi

  • Preference and performance are correlated in the spittlebug Aphrophora pectoralis on four species of willow

    Timothy P. Craig;Timothy P. Craig;Takayuki Ohgushi;Takayuki Ohgushi

  • Preference-performance linkage in a herbivorous lady beetle: consequences of variability of natural enemies.

    Yuriko Yamaga;Takayuki Ohgushi

  • Flood initiates bottom-up cascades in a tri-trophic system: host plant regrowth increases densities of a leaf beetle and its predators

    Masahiro Nakamura;Shunsuke Utsumi;Takeshi Miki;Takayuki Ohgushi

  • Preference and performance linkage in a Phyllocolpa sawfly on the willow, Salix miyabeana, on Hokkaido

    Peter W. Price;Takayuki Ohgushi

  • Studies on the population dynamics of a thistle-feeding lady beetle,Henosepilachna pustulosa (Kôno) in a cool temperate climax forest

    Koji Nakamura;Takayuki Ohgushi

  • Studies on the population dynamics of a thistle-feeding lady beetle,Henosepilachna pustulosa (Kôno) in a cool temperature climax forest: I. The estimation of adult population parameters by the marking, release and recapture method

    Koji Nakamura;Takayuki Ohgushi

  • Bottom-up cascade in a tri-trophic system: different impacts of host-plant regeneration on performance of a willow leaf beetle and its natural enemy

    Hideki Kagata;Masahiro Nakamura;Takayuki Ohgushi

  • Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), Volume I

    I-Ching Chen;Chih-hao Hsieh;Michio Kondoh;Hsing-Juh Lin

  • Ecological Communities: List of contributors

    Takayuki Ohgushi;Timothy P. Craig;Peter W. Price

  • Ecological Communities: Subject index

    Takayuki Ohgushi;Timothy P. Craig;Peter W. Price

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy P. Craig
Timothy P. Craig University of Minnesota
Peter W. Price
Peter W. Price Northern Arizona University
Oswald J. Schmitz
Oswald J. Schmitz Yale University
Robert D. Holt
Robert D. Holt University of Florida
Heikki Roininen
Heikki Roininen University of Eastern Finland
Yuji Isagi
Yuji Isagi Kyoto University
Risto Virtanen
Risto Virtanen University of Oulu
Hsing-Juh Lin
Hsing-Juh Lin National Chung Hsing University
Jotaro Urabe
Jotaro Urabe Tohoku University
Susanne Wurst
Susanne Wurst Freie Universität Berlin

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