As plants develop from seeds to seedlings, juveniles and mature stages, their ontogeny can
constrain the expression of resistance to herbivore damage. Nevertheless, ecological and …

Ecological character displacement, mostly seen as increased differences of size in sympatry
between closely‐related or similar species, is a focal hypothesis assuming that species too …

In fluctuating thermal conditions, the survival challenge for insects is particularly difficult
because their physiological activities depend upon environmental temperature. The extreme …

Plants protect themselves against herbivore attacks through a myriad of physical structures
and toxic secondary metabolites. Together with abiotic factors, herbivores are expected to …

The fossil record demonstrates that past climate changes and extinctions significantly
affected the diversity of insect leaf-feeding damage, implying that the richness of damage …

Herbivores that chew on the leaves of flowering plants have had to evolve mechanisms to
propagate fractures through structures that are chemically and physically heterogeneous …

Premise of research. Two previous studies examined the extent of insect herbivory in Early
Permian habitats of north-central Texas, with varying results indicating minimal to modest …

Quantitative studies rarely address arthropod herbivory on early angiosperms. We assessed
arthropod herbivory from highly sampled, abundant, diverse, and well preserved Early …

1. Many moth and butterfly larvae are gregarious early in development, but become solitary
in late instars. This ontogenetic variation in behaviour is probably the result of temporal …

Locusts are major intermittent threats to food security and the ecological factors determining
where and when these occur remain poorly understood. For many herbivores, obtaining …