Variably hungry caterpillars: Predictive models and foliar chemistry suggest how to eat a rainforest

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 284, Issue 1866, 2017, Pages

  Segar, Simon T ^a,b   Volf, Martin ^a,b   Isua, Brus ^c   Sisol, Mentap ^c   Redmond, Conor M ^a,b   Rosati, Margaret E ^d   Gewa, Bradley ^c   Molem, Kenneth ^c   Dahl, Chris ^a,b   Holloway, Jeremy D ^e   Basset, Yves ^a,b,f   Miller, Scott E ^d   Weiblen, George D ^g   Salminen, Juha Pekka ^h   Novotny, Vojtech ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^c New Guinea Binatang Research Center   (Papua New Guinea)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^e DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^f SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Food webs; Geometridae; Oxidative activity; Papua new guinea; Pyraloidea

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CATERPILLAR; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOOD WEB; HERBIVORE; HOST PLANT; MOTH; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; RAINFOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WOODY PLANT;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

GEOMETRIDAE; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; PYRALOIDEA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; FOOD CHAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HERBIVORY; LARVA; MOTH; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; RAIN FOREST;

ANIMALS; FOOD CHAIN; HERBIVORY; LARVA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTHS; NEW GUINEA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS; RAINFOREST;

EID: 85033601640     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1803     Document Type: Article

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