▪ Abstract Host plant quality is a key determinant of the fecundity of herbivorous insects.
Components of host plant quality (such as carbon, nitrogen, and defensive metabolites) …

Roughly 90% of butterfly species live in the tropics. Despite this, we know very little about
tropical butterfly ecology particularly when compared to temperate butterfly systems. The …

Summary 1 Ecologists concerned with life‐history strategies of parasitoid wasps have
recently focused on interspecific variation in the fraction of the maximum potential lifetime …

Summary 1 Resource acquisition and allocation are the physiological mechanisms
integrating foraging and life‐history traits. An understanding of the patterns of acquisition …

Climate change alters phenological relations between interacting species. We might expect
the historical baseline, or starting-point, for such effects to be precise synchrony between the …

Parasitoids display remarkable inter-and intraspecific variation in their reproductive and
associated traits. Adaptive explanations have been proposed for many of the between-trait …

The oxygen isotope composition of human phosphatic tissues (δ18OP) has great potential
for reconstructing climate and population migration, but this technique has not been applied …

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The allocation of nutritional resources to reproduction in animals is a complex process of
great evolutionary significance. We use compound-specific stable isotope analysis of carbon …

Thirty years ago, researchers discovered that flowers pollinated by butterflies are
consistently rich in nectar amino acids, and more recent findings have shown that butterflies …