Global S&T Development Trend Analysis Platform of Resources and Environment
DOI | 10.1111/ele.13972 |
Jack-of-all-trades paradigm meets long-term data: Generalist herbivores are more widespread and locally less abundant | |
Chanchanok Sudta; Danielle M. Salcido; Matthew L. Forister; Thomas R. Walla; Santiago Villamarí; n-Cortez; Lee A. Dyer | |
2022-02-02 | |
发表期刊 | Ecology Letters |
出版年 | 2022 |
英文摘要 | Insect herbivores are relatively specialized. Why this is so is not clear. We examine assumptions about associations between local abundance and dietary specialization using an 18-year data set of caterpillar–plant interactions in Ecuador. Our data consist of caterpillar–plant associations and include standardized plot-based samples and general collections of caterpillars, allowing for diet breadth and abundance estimates across spatial scales for 1917 morphospecies. We find that more specialized caterpillars are locally more abundant than generalists, consistent with a key component of the ‘jack of all trades, master of none’ hypothesis. As the diet breadth of species increased, generalists were not as abundant in any one location, but they had broader occupancy across the landscape, which is a pattern that could reflect high plant beta diversity and is consistent with an alternative neutral hypothesis. Our finding that more specialized species can be both rare and common highlights the ecological complexity of specialization. |
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/346048 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Chanchanok Sudta,Danielle M. Salcido,Matthew L. Forister,et al. Jack-of-all-trades paradigm meets long-term data: Generalist herbivores are more widespread and locally less abundant[J]. Ecology Letters,2022. |
APA | Chanchanok Sudta.,Danielle M. Salcido.,Matthew L. Forister.,Thomas .,R. Walla.,...&Lee A. Dyer.(2022).Jack-of-all-trades paradigm meets long-term data: Generalist herbivores are more widespread and locally less abundant.Ecology Letters. |
MLA | Chanchanok Sudta,et al."Jack-of-all-trades paradigm meets long-term data: Generalist herbivores are more widespread and locally less abundant".Ecology Letters (2022). |
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