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A bioassay for insect deterrent compounds found in plant and animal tissues

scientific article

A five-gene molecular phylogeny reveals Parapanteles Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) to be polyphyletic as currently composed

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

A key to new world distatrix mason (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), with descriptions of six new reared neotropical species

scientific article

A quantification of predation rates, indirect positive effects on plants, and foraging variation of the giant tropical ant, Paraponera clavata

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A species-level taxonomic review and host associations of Glyptapanteles (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) with an emphasis on 136 new reared species from Costa Rica and Ecuador

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A window to the world of global insect declines: Moth biodiversity trends are complex and heterogeneous

scientific article published on 12 January 2021

Across Multiple Species, Phytochemical Diversity and Herbivore Diet Breadth Have Cascading Effects on Herbivore Immunity and Parasitism in a Tropical Model System.

scientific article

An arthropod survival strategy in a frequently burned forest

scientific article published on 24 August 2017

Ant predation on herbivores through a multitrophic lens: how effects of ants on plant herbivore defense and natural enemies vary along temperature gradients

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Antiherbivore prenylated benzoic acid derivatives from Piper kelleyi

scientific article published on 14 January 2014

Aximopsis gabrielae sp. nov.: a gregarious parasitoid (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae) of the skipper Quadrus cerialis (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) feeding on Piper amalago in southern Mexico

scientific article published in 2022

Can Climate Change Trigger Massive Diversity Cascades in Terrestrial Ecosystems?

scientific article published on 05 July 2013

Canopy Openness Enhances Diversity of Ant-Plant Interactions in the Brazilian Amazon Rain Forest

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Caterpillar chemical defense and parasitoid success: Cotesia congregata parasitism of Ceratomia catalpae

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Cenocladamide, a dihydropyridone alkaloid from Piper cenocladum

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Challenges and advances in the study of latitudinal gradients in multitrophic interactions, with a focus on consumer specialization

scientific article published on 28 November 2018

Changing interactions among persistent species as the major driver of seasonal turnover in plant-caterpillar interactions

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Characterizing the cauline domatia of two newly discovered ecuadorian ant plants in piper: an example of convergent evolution

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Chemical defense across three trophic levels: Catalpa bignonioides, the caterpillar Ceratomia catalpae, and its endoparasitoid Cotesia congregata

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Climatic unpredictability and parasitism of caterpillars: implications of global warming

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Community-wide trophic cascades and other indirect interactions in an agricultural community

scientific article published in 2003

Costs of Defense and a Test of the Carbon-Nutrient Balance and Growth-Differentiation Balance Hypotheses for Two Co-Occurring Classes of Plant Defense ⬇️

scientific article published on October 24, 2012

Density Patterns of Piper Ant-Plants and Associated Arthropods: Top-Predator Trophic Cascades in a Terrestrial System?1

scientific article published in 1998

Determinants of predation on phytophagous insects: the importance of diet breadth

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Diversity cascades and malaria vectors

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Diversity cascades in alfalfa fields: from plant quality to agroecosystem diversity

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Diversity of Interactions: A Metric for Studies of Biodiversity

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Does plant apparency matter? Thirty years of data provide limited support but reveal clear patterns of the effects of plant chemistry on herbivores

scientific article published on 18 February 2016

EXPERIMENTAL TEST IN LOWLAND TROPICAL FOREST SHOWS TOP-DOWN EFFECTS THROUGH FOUR TROPHIC LEVELS

scientific article (publication date: July 1998)

Effectiveness of caterpillar defenses against three species of invertebrate predators

scientific article published in 1997

Effects of Banana Plantation Pesticides on the Immune Response of Lepidopteran Larvae and Their Parasitoid Natural Enemies

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Effects of CO2 and Temperature on Tritrophic Interactions ⬇️

scientific article published on April 25, 2013

Effects of ingested secondary metabolites on the immune response of a polyphagous caterpillar Grammia incorrupta

scientific article published on March 2011

Experimental Test in Lowland Tropical Forest Shows Top-Down Effects through Four Trophic Levels

scientific article published in 1998

Extreme drought disrupts plant phenology: Insights from 35 years of cloud forest data in <scp>Venezuela</scp>

scientific article published in 2023

First Description of the Early Stage Biology of the GenusMygona: The Natural History of the Satyrine Butterfly,Mygona irminain Eastern Ecuador ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

Geographic variation in host-specificity and parasitoid pressure of an herbivore (geometridae) associated with the tropical genus piper (piperaceae). ⬇️

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Global weather and local butterflies: variable responses to a large-scale climate pattern along an elevational gradient

scientific article published on November 2015

Good Things Come in Larger Packages: Size Matters for Adult Fruit-Feeding Butterfly Dispersal and Larval Diet Breadth

scientific article published on 13 December 2021

Herbivores on a dominant understory shrub increase local plant diversity in rain forest communities ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2010

Host conservatism, geography, and elevation in the evolution of a Neotropical moth radiation

scientific article published on 21 October 2017

Host conservatism, host shifts and diversification across three trophic levels in two Neotropical forests

scientific article published on 23 January 2012

Host plant associated enhancement of immunity and survival in virus infected caterpillars

scientific article published on 7 November 2017

Host specificity of Lepidoptera in tropical and temperate forests

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INDIRECT EFFECTS OF A TOP PREDATOR ON A RAIN FOREST UNDERSTORY PLANT COMMUNITY

scientific article published in 2004

Immunological cost of chemical defence and the evolution of herbivore diet breadth

scientific article published on 8 April 2009

Inter- and intraspecific comparisons of antiherbivore defenses in three species of rainforest understory shrubs

scientific article published on 4 March 2008

Interaction Diversity Maintains Resiliency in a Frequently Disturbed Ecosystem

scientific article published in 2019

International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Intraspecific phytochemical variation shapes community and population structure for specialist caterpillars

scientific article (publication date: October 2016)

Jack‐of‐all‐trades paradigm meets long‐term data: Generalist herbivores are more widespread and locally less abundant

scientific article published in 2022

LepNet: The Lepidoptera of North America Network

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Loss of dominant caterpillar genera in a protected tropical forest

scientific article published on 16 January 2020

Maximizing the monitoring of diversity for management activities: Additive partitioning of plant species diversity across a frequently burned ecosystem

scientific article published in 2019

Modern approaches for leveraging biodiversity collections to understand change in plant-insect interactions

scientific article published in 2022

Modern approaches to study plant–insect interactions in chemical ecology

scientific article published in 2018

Natural History of Eryphanis greeneyi (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) and Its Enemies, With a Description of a New Species of Braconid Parasitoid and Notes on Its Tachinid Parasitoid

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New Synthesis—Back to the Future: New Approaches and Directions in Chemical Studies of Coevolution ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 2011

New dimensions of tropical diversity: an inordinate fondness for insect molecules, taxa, and trophic interactions

scientific article published on 17 June 2014

Novel Insights into Tritrophic Interaction Diversity and Chemical Ecology Using 16 Years of Volunteer-Supported Research.

scientific article published in 2012

ON THE CONDITIONAL NATURE OF NEOTROPICAL CATERPILLAR DEFENSES AGAINST THEIR NATURAL ENEMIES

scientific article published in 2002

Patterns of secondary metabolite allocation to fruits and seeds in Piper reticulatum

scientific article published on 6 November 2013

Permutation tests for analyzing cospeciation in multiple phylogenies: applications in tri-trophic ecology ⬇️

scientific article published in December 2013

Phytochemical diversity and synergistic effects on herbivores

scientific article published in 2016

Phytochemical diversity drives plant-insect community diversity

scientific article published on 17 August 2015

Phytochemistry reflects different evolutionary history in traditional classes versus specialized structural motifs

scientific article published on 26 August 2021

Piper kelleyi, a hotspot of ecological interactions and a new species from Ecuador and Peru

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Pollen nutrition structures bee and plant community interactions

scientific article published in 2024

Promises and challenges in insect-plant interactions

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Proximity to canopy mediates changes in the defensive chemistry and herbivore loads of an understory tropical shrub, Piper kelleyi

scientific article published on 12 December 2018

Relative strengths of top-down and bottom-up forces in a tropical forest community

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Restoration of Pasture to Forest in Brazil's Mata Atlântica: The Roles of Herbivory, Seedling Defenses, and Plot Design in Reforestation

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Revisiting the evolution of ecological specialization, with emphasis on insect-plant interactions

scientific article published on May 2012

Scientists' warning on climate change and insects ⬇️

journal article from 'Ecological Monographs' published in 2022

Seasonal variation in diet breadth of folivorous Lepidoptera in the Brazilian cerrado

scientific article published on 31 March 2016

Secondary metabolites in a neotropical shrub: spatiotemporal allocation and role in fruit defense and dispersal

scientific article published on 06 September 2020

Shedding Light on Chemically Mediated Tri-Trophic Interactions: A H-NMR Network Approach to Identify Compound Structural Features and Associated Biological Activity

article published in 2018

Similarity in volatile communities leads to increased herbivory and greater tropical forest diversity

scientific article published on 26 April 2017

Simulated tri-trophic networks reveal complex relationships between species diversity and interaction diversity

scientific article published on 26 March 2018

Simulating Groundcover Community Assembly in a Frequently Burned Ecosystem Using a Simple Neutral Model

scientific article published on 13 September 2019

Special feature: diversity of insect-plant interactions in the eastern Andes of Ecuador

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Specialised generalists? Food web structure of a tropical tachinid-caterpillar community

Species richness and host associations of lepidoptera-attacking Tachinidae in the northeast Ecuadorian Andes

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Synergistic Effects of Amides from Two Piper Species on Generalist and Specialist Herbivores ⬇️

scientific article published on August 31, 2010

Synergistic effects of iridoid glycosides on the survival, development and immune response of a specialist caterpillar, Junonia coenia (Nymphalidae).

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Synergistic effects of three Piper amides on generalist and specialist herbivores

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Tasty Generalists and Nasty Specialists? Antipredator Mechanisms in Tropical Lepidopteran Larvae

scientific article published in 1995

Testing the applicability of random forest modeling to examine benthic foraminiferal responses to multiple environmental parameters

scientific article published in 2021

The Lives of Lepidopterists

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The chemical ecology of tropical forest diversity: Environmental variation, chemical similarity, herbivory, and richness

scientific article published in 2022

The early stages and natural history of Antirrhea adoptive porphyrosticta (Watkins, 1928) in eastern ecuador (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Morphinae).

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The early stages and natural history of Corades medeba Hewitson, 1850 in eastern Ecuador (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Pronophilina) ⬇️

scientific article published in June 2010

The early stages of Pedaliodes poesia ( Hewitson, 1862 ) in eastern Ecuador (Lepidoptera: Satyrinae: Pronophilina). ⬇️

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The global distribution of diet breadth in insect herbivores

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The importance of sequestered iridoid glycosides as a defense against an ant predator

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The insect immune response and other putative defenses as effective predictors of parasitism

scientific article published on June 2009

The wing interference patterns (WIPs) of Parapanteles (Braconidae, Microgastrinae): demonstrating a powerful and accessible tool for species-level identification of small and clear winged insects

scientific article published on 13 November 2023

Top-down and bottom-up diversity cascades in detrital vs. living food webs

scientific article published in 2002

Trade-offs in antiherbivore defenses in Piper cenocladum: ant mutualists versus plant secondary metabolites

scientific article published in March 2001

Trait-mediated trophic cascade creates enemy-free space for nesting hummingbirds

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Trophic cascades in a complex terrestrial community

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Trophic diversity in two grassland ecosystems

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Tropical forests are not flat: how mountains affect herbivore diversity ⬇️

scientific article published on August 30, 2010

Two new species of the hyperdiverse geometrid moth genus Eois (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae) from Ecuador, with descriptions of early stages

scientific article published in 2024

Weighing Defensive and Nutritive Roles of Ant Mutualists Across a Tropical Altitudinal Gradient

scientific article published on 29 September 2010

Larissimus nigricans sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), a new reared species of a rare neotropical genus recovered through biodiversity inventory in Ecuador ⬇️

scientific article published on 24 March 2023

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