The relationship between oviposition preference and growth, survival, and reproduction of
offspring is the crux of the problem in the evolution of host associations between …

A central controversy in ecology addresses the relative importance of competi-tion and
predation in determining the characteristics of organisms (eg behavior, life history) …

SYNOPSIS. Maternal effects comprise a class of phenotypic effects that parents have on
phenotypes of their offspring that are unrelated to the offspring's own genotype. Although …

The slow‐growth–high‐mortality hypothesis predicts that prolonged development in
herbivorous insects results in greater exposure to natural enemies and a subsequent …

Plant compensation for arthropod damage is a general occurrence of considerable
importance in both natural and agricultural systems. In natural systems, plant species that …

The objectives of this study were to determine responses by red mangrove (Rhizophora
mangle) and its primary consumers to nutrient enrichment, to determine if nutrient limitation …

Although biologists have long assumed that plant resistance characters evolved under
selection exerted by such natural enemies as herbivores and pathogens, experimental …

The evolutionary interactions between plants and phytophagous insects are asymmetric: the
biochemical and structural diversity of the angiosperms provide a profusion of niches for the …

Abstract “[F] or most of the past 50 My, Caribbean seagrass communities have had to
withstand heavy, sustained grazing pressure from several sympatric lineages of large …

Ecological Experiments stresses the importance of manipulative field experimentation in
ecology as being superior to the observational method. The book begins with a series of …