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Intraspecific phytochemical variation shapes community and population structure for specialist caterpillars
(2016)
Chemically mediated plant-herbivore interactions contribute to the diversity of terrestrial communities and the diversification of plants and insects. While our understanding of the processes affecting community structure ...
Larval Performance in the Context of Ecological Diversification and Speciation in Lycaeides Butterflies
(3/12/2012)
The role of ecology in diversification has been widely investigated, though few groups have been studied in enough detail to allow comparisons of different ecological traits that potentially contribute to reproductive ...
The soil mosaic hypothesis: a synthesis of multi-trophic diversification via soil heterogeneity
(2017)
Myriad unexplored mechanisms potentially drive ecological speciation and could help explain global variation in diversity. Here, we develop a novel hypothesis focused on variation in biotic, chemical, and physical properties ...
Synchronous population dynamics in California butterflies explained by climatic forcing
(2017)
A long-standing challenge for population biology has been to understand why some species are characterized by populations that fluctuate in size independently, while populations of other species fluctuate synchronously ...
The Many Dimensions of Diet Breadth: Phytochemical, Genetic, Behavioral, and Physiological Perspectives on the Interaction between a Native Herbivore and an Exotic Host
(2016)
From the perspective of an herbivorous insect, conspecific host plants are not identical, and intraspecific variation in host nutritional quality or defensive capacity might mediate spatially variable outcomes in plant-insect ...
Global weather and local butterflies: variable responses to a large-scale climate pattern along an elevational gradient
(2015)
Understanding the spatial and temporal scales at which environmental variation affects populations of plants and animals is an important goal for modern population biology, especially in the context of shifting climatic ...
Phytochemical diversity drives plant-insect community diversity
(2015)
What are the ecological causes and consequences of variation in phytochemical diversity within and between plant taxa? Despite decades of natural products discovery by organic chemists and research by chemical ecologists, ...