Host specificity of insect herbivores in tropical forests
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Host specificity of insect herbivores in tropical forests.
Studies of host specificity in tropical insect herbivores are evolving from a focus on insect distribution data obtained by canopy fogging and other mass collecting methods, to a focus on obtaining data on insect rearing and experimentally verified feeding patterns. We review this transition and identify persisting methodological problems. Replicated quantitative surveys of plant-herbivore food...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.3023