Indirect interactions occur when the effect of one species on another is mediated by a third
species. These interactions occur in most multi‐species assemblages and are diverse in …

This book describes the evolutionary and ecological consequences of reproductive
competition for scarabaeine dung beetles. As well as giving us insight into the private lives …

Background Ecological speciation is a process in which a transiently resource-polymorphic
species divides into two specialized sister lineages as a result of divergent selection …

Understanding the ecological mechanisms driving beta diversity is a major goal of
community ecology. Metacommunity theory brings new ways of thinking about the structure …

Heterospecific neighbors may reduce damage to a focal plant by lowering specialist
herbivore loads (associational resistance hypothesis), or enhance damage by increasing …

Climate change may alter the dynamics of outbreak species by changing the phenological
synchrony between herbivores and their host plants. As host plant phenology has a …

Recent work has shown a potential role for both host plant genotype and spatial context in
structuring insect communities. In this study, we use three separate data sets on herbivorous …

Ecology Letters (2012) Abstract Although phytophagous insects and plant pathogens
frequently share the same host plant, interactions among such phylogenetically distant taxa …

1. Variation in spring phenology–like tree budburst–affects the structure of insect
communities, but impacts of autumn phenology have been neglected. Many plant species …

Herbivorous insects are remarkably species-diverse, and the cause of such diversity
remains a classical issue in the fields of ecology and evolution. The traditional explanation …