Low host specificity of herbivorous insects in a tropical forest

Nature

Volumn 416, Issue 6883, 2002, Pages 841-844

  Novotny, Vojtech ^a   Basset, Yves ^b   Miller, Scott E ^c   Weiblen, George D ^d   Bremer, Birgitta ^e   Cizek, Lukas ^a   Drozd, Pavel ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; NUTRITION; PLANTS (BOTANY);

HOSTS;

FORESTRY;

HERBIVORE; HOST SPECIFICITY; INSECT; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FAUNA; HERBIVORY; HOST RANGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT INSECT INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE PARTITIONING; SAMPLING; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; INSECTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEW GUINEA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

NEW GUINEA;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0037171817     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/416841a     Document Type: Article

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