Variably Hungry Caterpillars: Predictive Models and Foliar Chemistry Suggest How to Eat a Rainforest
Downloaded from http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/ on November 9, 2017 Variably hungry caterpillars: predictive rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org models and foliar chemistry suggest how to eat a rainforest Simon T. Segar1,2, Martin Volf1,2, Brus Isua3, Mentap Sisol3, Research Conor M. Redmond1,2, Margaret E. Rosati4, Bradley Gewa3, Kenneth Molem3, Cite this article: Segar ST et al. 2017 Chris Dahl1,2, Jeremy D. Holloway5, Yves Basset1,2,6, Scott E. Miller4, Variably hungry caterpillars: predictive models George D. Weiblen7, Juha-Pekka Salminen8 and Vojtech Novotny1,2 and foliar chemistry suggest how to eat a rainforest. Proc. R. Soc. B 284: 20171803. 1Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice, Branisovska 1760, 37005 Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.1803 2Biology Centre, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Branisovska 31, 37005 Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic 3New Guinea Binatang Research Center, PO Box 604 Madang, Madang, Papua New Guinea 4National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA 5Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK Received: 11 August 2017 6Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843-03092, Panama City, Republic of Panama Accepted: 9 October 2017 7Bell Museum of Natural History and Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, 1479 Gortner Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55108-1095, USA 8Department of Chemistry, University of Turku, Vatselankatu 2, FI-20500 Turku, Finland STS, 0000-0001-6621-9409; MV, 0000-0003-4126-3897; YB, 0000-0002-1942-5717; SEM, 0000-0002-4138-1378; GDW, 0000-0002-8720-4887; J-PS, 0000-0002-2912-7094; Subject Category: VN, 0000-0001-7918-8023 Ecology A long-term goal in evolutionary ecology is to explain the incredible diversity Subject Areas: of insect herbivores and patterns of host plant use in speciose groups like ecology, evolution tropical Lepidoptera.
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