Host plant taxonomy and phenotype influence the structure of a neotropical host plant-hispine beetle food web

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 480-489

  Meskens, Christophe ^a   McKenna, Duane ^b   Hance, Thierry ^a   Windsor, Donald ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Chrysomelidae; Food web; Hispine beetles; Host specificity; Modular structure; Modularity; Nestedness; Niche overlap

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; FOOD WEB; HOST PLANT; HOST SPECIFICITY; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; MONOCOTYLEDON; NESTEDNESS; NICHE OVERLAP; PHENOTYPE; RELATEDNESS; TAXONOMY; TROPICAL FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

CASSIDINAE; CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 79960310050     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2011.01294.x     Document Type: Article

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