Variation In The Strength Of Local And Regional Determinants Of Herbivory Across The Neotropics
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-1-2024
Identifier/URL
40821395 (Pure)
Abstract
Plant–herbivore interactions are ubiquitous, and variation in the strength of these interactions contributes to diversity and ecosystem function at multiple scales in most biomes. Leaf herbivory exhibits substantial skew at most scales, but virtually all ecological studies focus on estimates of means and variance in herbivory rather than entire distributions. The novelty of this paper is that it employed estimation of latent variables summarizing statistical distributions of herbivory, rather than focusing on single random variables. Interestingly, latent variables representing central tendency, dispersion, skew, and kurtosis of herbivory on a tropical shrub genus each responded uniquely to abiotic and biotic factors.
Repository Citation
Joy Massad, T.,
Rangel Nascimento, A.,
Fernando Campos Moreno, D.,
Simbaña, W.,
Garcia Lopez, H.,
Sulca, L.,
Lepesqueur, C.,
Richards, L. A.,
Forister, M. L.,
Stireman, J. O.,
Tepe, E. J.,
Uckele, K. A.,
Braga, L.,
Walla, T. R.,
Smilanich, A. M.,
Grele, A.,
& Dyer, L. A.
(2024). Variation In The Strength Of Local And Regional Determinants Of Herbivory Across The Neotropics. Oikos, 2024 (2), e10218.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/biology/932
DOI
10.1111/oik.10218
