The evolution of" niche breadth," or" niche width," was a more popular topic in the
evolutionary ecological literature of the 1960s and 1970s than it has been recently (109 …

Insects are by far the most diverse group of organisms on Earth; estimates of their current
diversity range as high as 30 million species (58). A large fraction of these species feed on …

The relationship between oviposition preference and growth, survival, and reproduction of
offspring is the crux of the problem in the evolution of host associations between …

The correlation between'plant architecture'and insect species diversity is well exemplified by
the fact that trees have richer insect faunas than herbaceous plants. In this review, the author …

Ants are probably the most dominant insect group on Earth, representing ten to fifteen
percent of animal biomass in terrestrial ecosystems. Flowering plants, meanwhile, owe their …

We define 'enemy free space'as ways of living that reduce or eliminate a species'
vulnerability to one or more species of natural enemies. Many aspects of species' niches, in …

Elementary ecology texts tell us that organisms interact in three fundamental ways, generally
given the names competition, predation, and mutualism. The third member has gotten short …

Butterflies Of Peninsular India Represents The First Fascicle In This Series. This Important
New Work Of Reference Is Also A Joy To Look At And A Pleasure To Read, Combining …

66 THOMPSON & PELLMYR infer patterns in the evolution of oviposition behavior within the
Lepidoptera from a wealth of studies, and this order has continued to be among the major …

This review reevaluates the importance of interspecific competition in the population biology
of phytophagous insects and assesses factors that mediate competition. An examination of …