Herbivores Rule

Robert Marquis

doi:10.1126/science.1101848

Herbivores Rule

Robert Marquis

University of Missouri-St. Louis

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For decades, ecologists have strived to elucidate the causes of high species diversity in tropical regions. In his Perspective, Marquis discusses the results of a recent field study in the Peruvian Amazon ( Fine et al . ) that clearly demonstrates how herbivorous predators, such as insects, influence tropical forest diversity by reinforcing specialization of plant species to different soil habitats.

Original language	American English
Journal	Science
Volume	305
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1101848
State	Published - Jul 2004

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