No tree an island: the plant-caterpillar food web of a secondary rain forest in New Guinea

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60077395:_____/04:00104404

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

No tree an island: the plant-caterpillar food web of a secondary rain forest in New Guinea

Original language description

We characterized a plant-caterpillar food web from secondary vegetation in a New Guinean rain forest that included 63 plant species (87.5% of the total basal area), 546 Lepidoptera species and 1679 trophic links between them. The strongest 14 associations involved 50% of all individual caterpillars while some links were extremely rare. A caterpillar randomly picked from the vegetation will, with greater than or equal to 50% probability, (1) feed on one to three host plants (of the 63 studied), (2) feedon < 20% of local plant biomass and (3) have greater than or equal to 90% of population concentrated on a single host plant species. Generalist species were quantitatively unimportant. Caterpillar assemblages on locally monotypic plant genera were distinct, while sympatric congeneric hosts shared many caterpillar species. The partitioning of the plant-caterpillar food web thus depends on the composition of the vegetation. In secondary forest the predominant plant genera were locally mono

Czech name

Žádný strom na ostrově: potravní síť rostlina-housenka v sekundárním deštném lese na Nové Guinei

Czech description

Žádný strom na ostrově: potravní síť rostlina-housenka v sekundárním deštném lese na Nové Guinei

Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EH - Ecology - communities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2004

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Ecology Letters

ISSN

1461-023X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

11

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

1090-1100

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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