Publications

2012

Kaplan I. 2012. Attracting carnivorous arthropods with plant volatiles: the future of biocontrol or playing with fire? Biological Control, in press

Kaplan I, Thaler JS. 2012. Phytohormone-mediated plant resistance and predation risk act independently on the population growth and wing formation of potato aphids, Macrosiphum euphorbiae. Arthropod-Plant Interactions, in press

2011

Price PW, Denno RF, Eubanks MD, Finke DL, Kaplan I. 2011. Insect Ecology: Behavior, Populations, and Communities. Cambridge University Press Publisher link

Blubaugh CK, Caceres VA, Kaplan I, Larson J, Sadof CS, Richmond DS. 2011. Ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) phenology, diversity, and response to weed cover in a turfgrass ecosystem. Environmental Entomology, 40:1093-1101

Rodriguez-Saona C, Kaplan I, Braasch J, Chinnasamy D, Williams L. 2011. Field responses of predaceous arthropods to methyl salicylate: a meta-analysis and case study in cranberries. Biological Control, 59: 294-303

Kaplan I, Thaler JS. 2011. Do plant defenses enhance or diminish prey suppression by omnivorous Heteroptera? Biological Control, 59: 53-60

Kaplan I, Sardanelli S, Rehill BJ, Denno RF. 2011. Toward a mechanistic understanding of competition in vascular-feeding herbivores: an empirical test of the sink competition hypothesis. Oecologia, 166: 627-636

2010

Kaplan I, Thaler JS. 2010. Plant resistance attenuates the consumptive and non-consumptive impacts of predators on prey. Oikos, 119: 1105-1113   

2009

Barbosa P, Hines J, Kaplan I, Martinson H, Szczepaniec A, Szendrei Z. 2009. Associational resistance and susceptibility: having right or wrong neighbors. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution & Systematics, 40: 1-20  

Kaplan I, Dively GP, Denno RF. 2009. The costs of anti-herbivore defense traits in agricultural crop plants: a case study involving leafhoppers and trichomes. Ecological Applications, 19: 864-872  

Kaplan I, Sardanelli S, Denno RF. 2009. Field evidence for indirect interactions between foliar-feeding insect and root-feeding nematode communities on Nicotiana tabacum. Ecological Entomology, 34: 262-270  

2008

Denno RF, Gruner D, Kaplan I. 2008. Potential for entomopathogenic nematodes in biological control: a meta-analytical synthesis and insights from trophic cascade theory. Journal of Nematology, 40: 61-72  

Kaplan I, Halitschke R, Kessler A, Sardanelli S, Denno RF. 2008. Effects of plant vascular architecture on aboveground-belowground-induced responses to foliar and root herbivores on Nicotiana tabacum. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 34: 1349-1359  

Kaplan I, Halitschke R, Kessler A, Rehill BJ, Sardanelli S, Denno RF. 2008. Physiological integration of roots and shoots in plant defense strategies links above- and belowground herbivory. Ecology Letters, 11: 841-851  

Kaplan I, Dively GP, Denno RF. 2008. Variation in tolerance and resistance to the leafhopper Empoasca fabae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) among potato cultivars: implications for action thresholds. Journal of Economic Entomology, 101: 959-968  

Kaplan I, Halitschke R, Kessler A, Sardanelli S, Denno RF. 2008. Constitutive and induced defenses to herbivory in above- and belowground plant tissues. Ecology, 89: 392-406  

2007

Kaplan I, Denno RF. 2007. Interspecific interactions in phytophagous insects revisited: a quantitative assessment of competition theory. Ecology Letters, 10: 977-994  

Kaplan I, Lynch ME, Dively GP, and Denno RF. 2007. Leafhopper-induced plant resistance enhances predation risk in a phytophagous beetle. Oecologia, 152: 665-675  

Denno RF, Kaplan I. 2007. Plant-mediated interactions in herbivorous insects: mechanisms, symmetry, and challenging the paradigms of competition past. In: Ecological Communities: Plant Mediation in Indirect Interaction Webs, eds Ohgushi T, Craig TP, Price PW, p. 19-50. Cambridge University Press  

2006

Lynch ME, Kaplan I, Dively GP, Denno RF. 2006. Host-plant-mediated competition via induced resistance: interactions between pest herbivores on potatoes. Ecological Applications 16: 855-864  

Styrsky JD, Kaplan I, Eubanks MD. 2006. Plant trichomes indirectly enhance tritrophic interactions involving a generalist predator, the red imported fire ant. Biological Control 36: 375-384  

2005

Kaplan I, Eubanks MD. 2005. Aphids alter the community-wide impact of fire ants. Ecology 86: 1640-1649  

2002

Kaplan I, Eubanks MD. 2002. Disruption of cotton aphid (Homoptera: Aphididae)-natural enemy dynamics by red imported fire ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Environmental Entomology 31: 1175-1183