No tree an island: The plant-caterpillar food web of a secondary rain forest in New Guinea

Ecology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1090-1100

  Novotny, Vojtech ^a   Miller, Scott E ^b   Leps, Jan ^a   Basset, Yves ^c   Bito, Darren ^d   Janda, Milan ^a   Hulcr, Jiri ^a   Damas, Kipiro ^e   Weiblen, George D ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA   (Papua New Guinea)

^e PNG Forest Research Institute   (Papua New Guinea)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological succession; Herbivore communities; Host specificity; Insect plant interactions; Invasive species; Lepidoptera; Malesia; Papua New Guinea; Species richness; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

FOOD WEB; HOST RANGE; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; RAINFOREST; SECONDARY FOREST;

INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; PHACELIA CONGESTA;

EID: 7044222549     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00666.x     Document Type: Article

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