Reciprocal diversification in a complex plant-herbivore-parasitoid food web |
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Authors: | Tommi Nyman Folmer Bokma Jens-Peter Kopelke |
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Affiliation: | 1. Faculty of Biosciences, University of Joensuu, FI-80101, Joensuu, Finland 2. Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Ume? University, SE-90187, Ume?, Sweden 3. Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, D-60325, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Abstract: | Background Plants, plant-feeding insects, and insect parasitoids form some of the most complex and species-rich food webs. According to the classic escape-and-radiate (EAR) hypothesis, these hyperdiverse communities result from coevolutionary arms races consisting of successive cycles of enemy escape, radiation, and colonization by new enemy lineages. It has also been suggested that "enemy-free space" provided by novel host plants could promote host shifts by herbivores, and that parasitoids could similarly drive diversification of gall form in insects that induce galls on plants. Because these central coevolutionary hypotheses have never been tested in a phylogenetic framework, we combined phylogenetic information on willow-galling sawflies with data on their host plants, gall types, and enemy communities. |
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