A highly resolved food web for insect seed predators in a species-rich tropical forest
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F19%3A43899395" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/19:43899395 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ele.13359" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ele.13359</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.13359" target="_blank" >10.1111/ele.13359</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A highly resolved food web for insect seed predators in a species-rich tropical forest
Original language description
The top-down and indirect effects of insects on plant communities depend on patterns of host use, which are often poorly documented, particularly in species-rich tropical forests. At Barro Colorado Island, Panama, we compiled the first food web quantifying trophic interactions between the majority of co-occurring woody plant species and their internally feeding insect seed predators. Our study is based on more than 200 000 fruits representing 478 plant species, associated with 369 insect species. Insect host-specificity was remarkably high: only 20% of seed predator species were associated with more than one plant species, while each tree species experienced seed predation from a median of two insect species. Phylogeny, but not plant traits, explained patterns of seed predator attack. These data suggest that seed predators are unlikely to mediate indirect interactions such as apparent competition between plant species, but are consistent with their proposed contribution to maintaining plant diversity via the Janzen-Connell mechanism.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10618 - Ecology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ecology Letters
ISSN
1461-023X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
22
Issue of the periodical within the volume
10
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
1638-1649
UT code for WoS article
000478534300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85072234183