Insect leaf-chewing damage tracks herbivore richness in modern and ancient forests.

The fossil record demonstrates that past climate changes and extinctions significantly affected the diversity of insect leaf-feeding damage, implying that the richness of damage types reflects that of the unsampled damage makers, and that the two are correlated through time. However, this relationsh...

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Main Authors: Mónica R Carvalho, Peter Wilf, Héctor Barrios, Donald M Windsor, Ellen D Currano, Conrad C Labandeira, Carlos A Jaramillo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4008375?pdf=render