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Dietary specialization is conditionally associated with increased ant predation risk in a temperate forest caterpillar community

The enemy‐free space hypothesis (EFSH) contends that generalist predators select for dietary specialization in insect herbivores. At a community level, the EFSH predicts that dietary specialization reduces predation risk, and this pattern has been found in several studies addressing the impact of in...

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Autores principales: Singer, Michael S., Clark, Robert E., Johnson, Emily R., Lichter‐Marck, Isaac H., Mooney, Kailen A., Whitney, Kenneth D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6854387/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31844517
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5662