British Insects and Trees: A Study in Island Biogeography or Insect/Plant Coevolution?
- 1 March 1978
- journal article
- letter
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 112 (984), 451-456
- https://doi.org/10.1086/283288
Abstract
Evidence suggested that the numbers of associated insect species were closely correlated with the recent abundance of their host plants. Neither the geological time theory nor the species-area theory explained the relative numbers of species of mesophyll-feeding leafhoppers (Cicadellidae) on British trees. Coevolutionary interactions might be the most important factors determining the patterns of insect-plant relationships in diverse plant communities.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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