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 …

A leaf-height-seed (LHS) plant ecology strategy scheme is proposed. The axes would be
specific leaf area SLA (light-capturing area deployed per dry mass allocated), height of the …

Populations and communities of organisms are influenced by a host of abiotic and biotic
factors. Climate, nutrients, natural enemies (including parasites and pathogens), symbionts …

Food webs in nature have multiple, reticulate connections between a diversity of consumers
and resources. Such complexity affects web dynamics: it first spreads the direct effects of …

It has been more than two decades since the formulation of the so‐called 'trade‐
off'hypothesis as an alternative to the then commonly accepted idea that parasites should …

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 …

We argue that generalist natural enemies of herbivorous insects provide a major selection
pressure for restricted host plant range. The significance of plant chemistry is discussed in …

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 …

This study quantifies the flow of energy and biomass from a productive marine system to a
relatively unproductive terrestrial system. Biomass from marine food webs (here, the Gulf of …