Search Results - "Lamarre, Greg P.A."
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Global insect decline is the result of wilful political failure: A battle plan for entomology
Published in Ecology and evolution (01-10-2022)“…The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment assessed ecosystem change, human wellbeing and scientific evidence for sustainable use of biological systems. Despite…”
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The Saturniidae of Barro Colorado Island, Panama: A model taxon for studying the long‐term effects of climate change?
Published in Ecology and evolution (01-12-2017)“…We have little knowledge of the response of invertebrate assemblages to climate change in tropical ecosystems, and few studies have compiled long‐term data on…”
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Plant phylogeny drives arboreal caterpillar assemblages across the Holarctic
Published in Ecology and evolution (01-12-2020)“…Assemblages of insect herbivores are structured by plant traits such as nutrient content, secondary metabolites, physical traits, and phenology. Many of these…”
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Evolution of Manduca sexta hornworms and relatives: Biogeographical analysis reveals an ancestral diversification in Central America
Published in Molecular phylogenetics and evolution (01-09-2013)“…[Display omitted] •Manduca is a model genus but relationships remain largely unresolved.•Our study firmly places M. sexta and M. quinquemaculatus in the…”
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Illuminating arthropod diversity in a tropical forest: Assessing biodiversity by automatic light trapping and DNA metabarcoding
Published in Environmental DNA (Hoboken, N.J.) (01-03-2024)“…Although studies of insect decline have recently dominated headlines worldwide, their interpretation requires caution since for most species, we lack long‐term…”
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Leaf synchrony and insect herbivory among tropical tree habitat specialists
Published in Plant ecology (01-02-2014)“…Growth defense tradeoff theory predicts that plants in low-resource habitats invest more energy in defense mechanisms against natural enemies than growth,…”
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Phylogenetic Overdispersion in Lepidoptera Communities of Amazonian White‐sand Forests
Published in Biotropica (2016)“…In the Amazon basin and the Guiana Shield, white‐sand (WS) forests are recognized as a low‐resource habitat often composed by a distinct flora with many…”
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A comparison of two common flight interception traps to survey tropical arthropods
Published in ZooKeys (01-01-2012)“…Tropical forests are predicted to harbor most of the insect diversity on earth, but few studies have been conducted to characterize insect communities in…”
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Vertical stratification and defensive traits of caterpillars against parasitoids in a lowland tropical forest in Cameroon
Published in Oecologia (01-04-2024)“…Insect herbivores and their parasitoids play a crucial role in terrestrial trophic interactions in tropical forests. These interactions occur across the entire…”
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Seasonality affects specialisation of a temperate forest herbivore community
Published in Oikos (01-09-2021)“…Understanding spatiotemporal trends on insect‐plant interaction networks is essential to unveil the ecological and evolutionary processes driving herbivore…”
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Thermoregulatory ability and mechanism do not differ consistently between neotropical and temperate butterflies
Published in Global change biology (01-08-2023)“…Climate change is a major threat to species worldwide, yet it remains uncertain whether tropical or temperate species are more vulnerable to changing…”
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Spatial covariance of herbivorous and predatory guilds of forest canopy arthropods along a latitudinal gradient
Published in Ecology letters (01-10-2020)“…In arthropod community ecology, species richness studies tend to be prioritised over those investigating patterns of abundance. Consequently, the biotic and…”
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Tropical butterflies use thermal buffering and thermal tolerance as alternative strategies to cope with temperature increase
Published in The Journal of animal ecology (01-09-2023)“…Climate change poses a severe threat to many taxa, with increased mean temperatures and frequency of extreme weather events predicted. Insects can respond to…”
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Vertical stratification of a temperate forest caterpillar community in eastern North America
Published in Oecologia (01-02-2020)“…Vertical niche partitioning might be one of the main driving forces explaining the high diversity of forest ecosystems. However, the forest’s vertical…”
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Host specificity and interaction networks of insects feeding on seeds and fruits in tropical rainforests
Published in Oikos (01-09-2021)“…In the tropics, antagonistic seed predation networks may have different properties than mutualistic pollination and seed dispersal networks, but the former…”
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Insect herbivores, chemical innovation, and the evolution of habitat specialization in Amazonian trees
Published in Ecology (Durham) (01-08-2013)“…Herbivores are often implicated in the generation of the extraordinarily diverse tropical flora. One hypothesis linking enemies to plant diversification posits…”
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Taxonomic and functional composition of arthropod assemblages across contrasting Amazonian forests
Published in The Journal of animal ecology (2016)“…Arthropods represent most of global biodiversity, with the highest diversity found in tropical rain forests. Nevertheless, we have a very incomplete…”
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Towards a functional classification of poorly known tropical insects: The case of rhinoceros beetles (Coleoptera, Dynastinae) in Panama
Published in Insect conservation and diversity (01-01-2023)“…The population dynamics of most tropical insects are unknown and long‐term monitoring programmes are urgently needed to evaluate a possible insect decline in…”
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Percentage leaf herbivory across vascular plant species
Published in Ecology (Durham) (01-03-2014)“…Herbivory is viewed as a major driver of plant evolution and the most important energy pathway from plants to higher trophic levels. Therefore, understanding…”
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The Amazonas‐trap: a new method for sampling plant‐inhabiting arthropod communities in tropical forest understory
Published in Entomologia experimentalis et applicata (01-06-2019)“…Methods to quantify plant‐insect interactions in tropical forests may miss many important arthropods and can be time consuming and uneven in capture…”
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