Understanding the ecological consequences of biodiversity is a fundamental challenge.
Research on a key component of biodiversity, genetic diversity, has traditionally focused on …

Plants and herbivores are remarkably variable in space and time, and variability has been
considered a defining feature of their interactions. Empirical research, however, has …

Induced resistance is now widely accepted as a potent and widespread ecological force
although several pieces of the story remain very poorly known. Theory predicts that induced …

Interactions between individual consumer and resource organisms can be modified by
neighbors, eg, when herbivory depends on the identity or diversity of neighboring plants …

Recent research suggests that genetic diversity in plant populations can shape the diversity
and abundance of consumer communities. We tested this hypothesis in a field experiment …

The dazzling variation in plant chemistry is a primary mediator of trophic interactions,
including herbivory, predation, parasitism, and disease. At the same time, such interactions …

A central challenge in ecology is to understand the interplay of internal and external controls
on the growth of populations. We examined the effects of temporal variation in weather and …

Understanding how variance in environmental factors affects physiological performance,
population growth, and persistence is central in ecology. Despite recent interest in the …

The growth rate (GR) hypothesis relates the evolution of plant defense to resource
availability and predicts that plants that have evolved in abiotically stressful environments …

Most on-farm diversification strategies to enhance ecosystem services, such as insect pest
control and yield, have focused on expanding crop species diversity. While polycultures …