Four ways towards tropical herbivore megadiversity

Ecology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 398-416

  Lewinsohn, Thomas M ^a   Roslin, Tomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Diversity structure; Herbivory; Host specialization; Plant animal interactions; Rarity; Species richness; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BIODIVERSITY; HERBIVORY; HOST SPECIFICITY; META-ANALYSIS; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PLANT; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BEETLES; BIODIVERSITY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PLANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 40349116472     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01155.x     Document Type: Review

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