The importance of interspecific competition is a highly controversial and unresolved issue for
community ecology in general, and for phytophagous insects in particular. Recent …

▪ Abstract Although predation has a lethal effect on prey, mature terrestrial plants are rarely
killed by herbivores, but herbivory can change plant allelochemistry, cell structure and …

Since the publication of the third edition of the Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress,
continuous discoveries in the fields of plant and crop environmental stresses and their …

A recent surge in attention devoted to the ecology of soil biota has prompted interest in
quantifying similarities and differences between interactions occurring in above‐and …

Roots play a critical, but largely unappreciated, role in aboveground anti‐herbivore plant
defense (eg resistance and tolerance) and root–leaf connections may therefore result in …

One of the most important issues in ecology is understanding the causal mechanisms that
shape the structure of ecological communities through trophic interactions. The focus on …

Predation is a fundamental ecological process that shapes communities and drives
evolutionary dynamics. As the world rapidly urbanizes, it is critical to understand how human …

Plant defenses inducible by herbivorous arthropods can determine performance of
subsequent feeding herbivores. We investigated how infestation of tomato (Solanum …

The rapid adoption of genetically engineered (GE) plants that express insecticidal Cry
proteins derived from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) has raised concerns about their potential …

Explaining the coexistence of closely related species sharing a single resource has been a
long‐standing challenge in ecology. Here we report on studies comparing the aphids Aphis …