The J anzen–C onnell hypothesis proposes that specialist natural enemies, such as
herbivores and pathogens, maintain diversity in plant communities by reducing survival …

Mast seeding is a widespread and widely studied phenomenon. However, the physiological
mechanisms that mediate masting events and link them to weather and plant resources are …

Recent studies have generated an explosion of phylogenetic and biogeographic data and
have provided new tools to investigate the processes driving large-scale gradients in …

The commonly observed high diversity of trees in tropical rain forests and corals on tropical
reefs is a nonequilibrium state which, if not disturbed further, will progress toward a low …

The degree of herbivory and the effectiveness of defenses varies widely among plant
species. Resource availability in the environment is proposed as the major determinant of …

The nitrogen content of a plant is only one of the many plant characteristics that are vitally
important to herbivores. However, because of its central role in all metabolic processes as …

Whole-plant energy capture depends not only on the photosynthetic response of individual
leaves, but also on their integration into an effective canopy, and on the costs of producing …

▪ 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 …

A major objective of insect ecology is to explain observed patterns of interaction between
plants and herbivorous insects. We would like to understand both how such patterns are …

Early studies of nutrient cycling in moist tropical forests described productive forests rich in
nutrients (98, 114, 176) in which rates of primary production and the amounts of nutrients …