We live amid a global wave of anthropogenically driven biodiversity loss: species and
population extirpations and, critically, declines in local species abundance. Particularly …

▪ Abstract In this review, we discuss the ecological and evolutionary consequences of plant-
herbivore interactions in tropical forests. We note first that herbivory rates are higher in …

Human alteration of Earth is substantial and growing. Between one-third and one-half of the
land surface has been transformed by human action; the carbon dioxide concentration in the …

Ants are probably the most dominant insect group on Earth, representing ten to fifteen
percent of animal biomass in terrestrial ecosystems. Flowering plants, meanwhile, owe their …

To cope with environmental challenges, plants produce a wide diversity of phytochemicals,
which are also the source of numerous medicines. Despite decades of research in chemical …

For numerous taxa, species richness is much higher in tropical than in temperate zone
habitats. A major challenge in community ecology and evolutionary biogeography is to …

Forest fragmentation is considered a greater threat to vertebrates than to tree communities
because individual trees are typically long-lived and require only small areas for survival …

The first edition of this book, published by University Press of New England in 1986, sold
over 2500 copies, and was received as the best introductory overview of this broad field …

Müllerian mimicry among Neotropical Heliconiini butterflies is an excellent example of
natural selection, associated with the diversification of a large continental-scale radiation …

Plants and their herbivores constitute more than half of the organisms in tropical forests.
Therefore, a better understanding of the evolution of plant defenses against their herbivores …