Plants produce a great number of phytochemicals serving a variety of different functions.
Recently, the chemodiversity of these compounds (ie, the diversity of compounds produced …

Diverse specialised metabolites contributed to the success of vascular plants in colonising
most terrestrial habitats. Understanding how distinct aspects of chemical diversity arise …

Understanding the mechanisms that drive community assembly in species‐rich tropical
forest remains a fundamental challenge in ecology. Here, we integrated multivariate …

Plant diversity varies immensely over large-scale gradients in temperature, precipitation,
and seasonality at global and regional scales. This relationship may be driven in part by …

Plants produce an astonishing diversity of specialized metabolites as defences against
herbivores, pathogens or detrimental abiotic conditions. Plants growing at different …

Phytochemicals and their ecological significance are long ignored in trait-based ecology.
Moreover, the adaptations of phytochemicals produced by fine roots to abiotic and biotic …

Insectivorous predators, including birds and bats, play crucial roles in trophic cascades.
However, previous research on these cascades has often relied on permanent predator …

Over the past decades, elevational gradients have become a powerful tool with which to
understand the underlying cause (s) of biodiversity. The Mt. Wilhelm elevational transect is …

Insect herbivores have the potential to consume large amounts of plant tissue in tropical
forests, but insectivorous vertebrates effectively control their abundances, indirectly …

Insect herbivores have evolved a broad spectrum of adaptations in response to the diversity
of chemical defences employed by plants. Here we focus on two species of New Guinean …