New PNAS paper shows that insect herbivores are more specialized in the tropics

Monday, January 5th, 2015. Posted by Owen Lewis.

Owen Lewis is a co-author on this massive synthesis of datasets documenting host plant use for over 7,500 insect herbivore species interacting with more than 2,000 species of plants in 165 families.The paper is Open Access and can be read here: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/12/25/1423042112.long