Comment on "Why Are There So Many Species of Herbivorous Insects in Tropical Rainforests?"
- 23 March 2007
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 315 (5819) , 1666
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1137249
Abstract
Novotny et al . (Reports, 25 August 2006, p. 1115) argued that higher herbivore diversity in tropical forests results from greater phylogenetic diversity of host plants, not from higher host specificity. However, if host specificity is related to host abundance, differences in relative host abundance between tropical and temperate regions may limit any general conclusion that herbivore diversity scales directly with host-plant diversity.Keywords
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