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Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Many studies have focussed on niche differentiation at the population level to explain the coexistence of similar species. However, information on how individual‐level processes across multidimensional niches shape community dynamics and species coexistence, especially ...
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Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 2017 Chrysodeixis includens (Walker, [1858]) is currently the main plusiine pest in the Americas, not only because of the damage caused to soybean, but also with several crop species in a broad geographical range.
Sabrina Raisa dos Santos +4 more
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Does a shift to a novel host plant create a defence‐free space for a specialist herbivore species?
Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract While host switches can promote speciation in herbivorous insects, the benefits of switching hosts have only been ascribed to escaping competition and natural enemies. Herbivores might also escape from the defences of their ancestral host if their new host species lacks
Eric C. Yip +5 more
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Journal of Applied Ecology, EarlyView.Our experiment provides strong evidence for the importance of clustered tree mortality for comprehensive insect diversity in temperate forests and highlights the potential of forest management to enhance insect diversity in homogeneous commercial forests, particularly through the creation of canopy gaps and the retention of deadwood. Both mimic natural
Julia Rothacher +14 more
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Plant Species Biology, EarlyView.Can calcium oxalate crystals protect plants against herbivorous insects? These Hazel leaves are consumed by caterpillars despite their high content of mineral druses (right image, arrows. Scale bar = 100 μm). This study illustrates what happens to crystals and caterpillars after the meal.
Hans‐Jürgen Ensikat +3 more
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Revista Chilena de EntomologíaInformation on the natural history of Rekoa marius (Lucas, 1857) is presented through the first record of the species on Averrhoa carambola L. The larvae of this lepidopteran were collected on A. carambola and reared under laboratory conditions.
Suianne Cajé +3 more
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Plant Species Biology, EarlyView.Leaf color has been rarely evaluated as an important trait influencing herbivory levels in tropical plant species. Cannonball trees (Lecythis pisonis) present pink young leaves that are smaller, softer and with less chlorophyll that progressively turn into green as the season progresses. When all three leaf colors are present in the plants, there is no
Susan Vieira Gomes, Tatiana Cornelissen
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Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 2016 Stichelia pelotensis (Lepidoptera, Riodinidae) is an endemic and threatened butterfly from the Pampa biome in southern Brazil, and has not been recorded in its type locality in the last 56 years. Recently, a population was found in two sites from extreme
Ricardo Russo Siewert +3 more
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Local outbreaks of Operophtera brumata and Operophtera fagata cannot be explained by low vulnerability to pupal predation [PDF]
, 2013 One of the unresolved questions in studies on population dynamics of forest Lepidoptera is why some populations at times reach outbreak densities, whereas others never do.
Heisswolf, Annette +3 more
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Diet acts on sexual behavior development in a male moth
Insect Science, EarlyView.Drastic changes are observed during sexual maturation characterized by the reproductive system development concomitantly to the sexual behavior ontogenesis. These modifications are under the control of internal and external factors such as food. Knowing that sexual maturation requires considerable energetic investment, diet has been shown to affect ...
Evan Force +6 more
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