The literature on the response of insect species to the changing environments experienced
along altitudinal gradients is diverse and widely dispersed. There is a growing awareness …

Classic research on elevational gradients in plant–herbivore interactions holds that insect
herbivore pressure is stronger under warmer, less seasonal climates characteristic of low …

Global warming is predicted to dramatically alter communities' composition through
differential colonization abilities, such as between sessile plants and their mobile …

Environmental gradients have been postulated to generate patterns of diversity and diet
specialization, in which more stable environments, such as tropical regions, should promote …

Plant defenses are plastic when a single genotype can produce different phenotypes
depending upon the environment. Plastic responses might be favored by selection only if …

Why is the World green–what keeps herbivores, and herbivorous insects in particular, from
consuming all of their food? When this question was first posed, the relative importance of …

Studies aiming at explaining specialization along latitudinal gradients of plant‐herbivore
interactions have to date yielded inconclusive results. We here propose the use of steep …

Nearly ten years ago, there was a call for synthesis in the debate on the relative
contributions of top-down and bottom-up forces to the population and community ecology of …

Dissecting drivers of plant defence investment remains central for understanding the
assemblage of communities across different habitats. There is increasing evidence that …

Relative to the enormity of the number of individuals, organismal biomass, species diversity,
and the role they play in virtually any ecosystem, the attention given to microorganisms in …