Caterpillars in the Middle

Part 1: Introduction.- 1.Diversity of caterpillar adaptations in a complex evolutionary landscape.- Part 2: Impacts of the first trophic level, plants, on caterpillar ecology and evolution.- 2.Surface warfare: Interactions between caterpillars and plant structural defenses.- 3.Role of host plants in mediating caterpillar-natural enemy interactions.- 4.Reciprocal impacts of plant defenses and host choice by Lepidoptera in Neotropical rainforests.- 5.Molecular ecology of caterpillar salivary defenses against host plants.- 6.Ecology and evolution of secondary compound detoxification systems in caterpillars.- 7.Comparative caterpillar host plant interactions in agricultural and wildland systems: what can comparisons tell us?.- 8.Caterpillars drive patterns of growth and top-down suppression of competing phloem-feeders across diverse environments.- 9.

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• Zoologia e ciências animais
• Ciência ecológica, a biosfera
• Conservação do ambiente
• Políticas da governo central
• Ecologia das plantas

Entomology;Lepidoptera;Herbivory;plant defense;biological control;natural enemies;arthropod predators;parasitoids;insects;Butterfly;Environmental Impact