Are insect pollinators more generalist than insect herbivores?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1669, 2009, Pages 3027-3033

  Fontaine, Colin ^a   Thébault, Elisa ^a   Dajoz, Isabelle ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

Author keywords

Generalism; Herbivory; Interaction web; Mutualistic; Pollination; Trophic

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE; GENERALIST; HERBIVORE; INSECT; MUTUALISM; PHYLOGENETICS; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; POLLINATOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERBIVORE; INSECT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT INSECT INTERACTION; POLLINATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 68249096990     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0635     Document Type: Article

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