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  • Changes in arthropod assemblages along a wide gradient of disturbance in Gabon 
    Basset, Yves; Missa, Olivier; Alonso, Alfonso; Miller, Scott E.; Curletti, Gianfranco; De Meyer, Marc; Eardley, Connal; Lewis, Owen T.; Mansell, Mervyn W.; Novotny, Vojtech; Wagner, Thomas (2008)
    Searching for indicator taxa representative of diverse assemblages, such as arthropods, is an important objective of many conservation studies. We evaluated the impacts of a wide gradient of disturbance in Gabon on a range ...
  • Choice of metrics for studying arthropod responses to habitat disturbance: one example from Gabon 
    Basset, Yves; Missa, Olivier; Alonso, Alfonso; Miller, Scott E.; Curletti, Gianfranco; De Meyer, Marc; Eardley, Connal; Lewis, Owen T.; Mansell, Mervyn W.; Novotny, Vojtech; Wagner, Thomas (2008)
    1. The choice of metrics comparing pristine and disturbed habitats may not be straightforward. We examined the results of a study in Gabon including 21 arthropod focal taxa representing 16 855 individuals separated into ...
  • Contrasting patterns of insect herbivory and predation pressure across a tropical rainfall gradient 
    Weissflog, Anita; Markesteijn, Lars; Lewis, Owen T.; Comita, Liza S.; Engelbrecht, Bettina M. J. (2018)
    One explanation for the extraordinarily high tree diversity of tropical lowland forests is that it is maintained by specialized natural enemies such as insect herbivores, which cause distance and density dependent mortality. ...
  • Correction to Insects on Plants: Explaining the Paradox of Low Diversity within Specialist Herbivore Guilds (vol 179, pg 351, 2012) 
    Novotny, Vojtech; Miller, Scott E.; Hrcek, Jan; Baje, Leontine; Basset, Yves; Lewis, Owen T.; Stewart, Alan J. A.; Weiblen, George D. (2021)
  • A cross-continental comparison of assemblages of seed- and fruit-feeding insects in tropical rain forests: Faunal composition and rates of attack 
    Basset, Yves; Dahl, Chris; Ctvrtecka, Richard; Gripenberg, Sofia; Lewis, Owen T.; Segar, Simon T.; Klimes, Petr; Barrios, Héctor; Brown, John W.; Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh; Butcher, Buntika A.; Cognato, Anthony I.; Davies, Stuart; Kaman, Ondrej; Knizek, Milos; Miller, Scott E.; Morse, Geoffrey E.; Novotny, Vojtech; Pongpattananurak, Nantachai; Pramual, Pairot; Quicke, Donald L. J.; Robbins, Robert K.; Sakchoowong, Watana; Schutze, Mark; Vesterinen, Eero J.; Wang, Wen-zhi; Wang, Yun-yu; Weiblen, George; Wright, S. Joseph (2018)
  • DROP: Molecular voucher database for identification of Drosophila parasitoids 
    Lue, Chia-Hua; Buffington, Matthew L.; Scheffer, Sonja; Lewis, Matthew L.; Elliott, Tyler A.; Lindsey, Amelia R. I.; Driskell, Amy; Jandova, Anna; Kimura, Masahito T.; Carton, Yves; Kula, Robert R.; Schlenke, Todd A.; Mateos, Mariana; Govind, Shubha; Varaldi, Julien; Guerrieri, Emilio; Giorgini, Massimo; Wang, Xingeng; Hoelmer, Kim; Daane, Kent M.; Abram, Paul K.; Pardikes, Nicholas A.; Brown, Joel J.; Thierry, Melanie; Poirie, Marylene; Goldstein, Paul Z.; Miller, Scott E.; Tracey, W. Daniel; Davis, Jeremy S.; Jiggins, Francis M.; Wertheim, Bregje; Lewis, Owen T.; Leips, Jeff; Staniczenko, Phillip P. A.; Hrcek, Jan (2021)
    Molecular identification is increasingly used to speed up biodiversity surveys and laboratory experiments. However, many groups of organisms cannot be reliably identified using standard databases such as GenBank or BOLD ...
  • The global distribution of diet breadth in insect herbivores 
    Forister, Matthew L.; Novotny, Vojtech; Panorska, Anna K.; Baje, Leontine; Basset, Yves; Butterill, Philip T.; Cizek, Lukas; Coley, Phyllis D.; Dem, Francesca; Diniz, Ivone R.; Drozd, Pavel; Fox, Mark; Glassmire, Andrea E.; Hazen, Rebecca; Hrcek, Jan; Jahner, Joshua P.; Kaman, Ondrej; Kozubowski, Tomasz J.; Kursar, Thomas A.; Lewis, Owen T.; Lill, John; Marquis, Robert J.; Miller, Scott E.; Morais, Helena C.; Murakami, Masashi; Nickel, Herbert; Pardikes, Nicholas A.; Ricklefs, Robert E.; Singer, Michael S.; Smilanich, Angela M.; Stireman, John O.; Villamarín-Cortez, Santiago; Vodka, Stepan; Volf, Martin; Wagner, David L.; Walla, Thomas; Weiblen, George D.; Dyer, Lee A. (2014)
  • Guild-specific patterns of species richness and host specialization in plant herbivore food webs from a tropical forest 
    Novotny, Vojtech; Miller, Scott E.; Baje, Leontine; Balagawi, Solomon; Basset, Yves; Cizek, Lukas; Craft, Kathleen J.; Dem, Francesca; Drew, Richard A. I.; Hulcr, Jiri; Leps, Jan; Lewis, Owen T.; Pokon, Rapo; Stewart, Alan J. A.; Samuelson, G. Allan; Weiblen, George D. (2010)
    1. The extent to which plant2013herbivore feeding interactions are specialized is key to understand the processes maintaining the diversity of both tropical forest plants and their insect herbivores. However, studies ...
  • Higher predation risk for insect prey at low latitudes and elevations 
    Roslin, Tomas; Hardwick, Bess; Novotny, Vojtech; Petry, William K.; Andrew, Nigel R.; Asmus, Ashley; Barrio, Isabel C.; Basset, Yves; Boesing, Andrea Larissa; Bonebrake, Timothy C.; Cameron, Erin K.; Dáttilo, Wesley; Donoso, David A.; Drozd, Pavel; Gray, Claudia L.; Hik, David S.; Hill, Sarah J.; Hopkins, Tapani; Huang, Shuyin; Koane, Bonny; Laird-Hopkins, Benita; Laukkanen, Liisa; Lewis, Owen T.; Milne, Sol; Mwesige, Isaiah; Nakamura, Akihiro; Nell, Colleen S.; Nichols, Elizabeth; Prokurat, Alena; Sam, Katerina; Schmidt, Niels M.; Slade, Alison; Slade, Victor; Suchanková, Alzbeta; Teder, Tiit; van Nouhuys, Saskya; Vandvik, Vigdis; Weissflog, Anita; Zhukovich, Vital; Slade, Eleanor M. (2017)
  • A highly resolved food web for insect seed predators in a species-rich tropical forest 
    Gripenberg, Sofia; Basset, Yves; Lewis, Owen T.; Terry, J. Christopher D.; Wright, S. Joseph; Simón, Indira; Fernández, D. Catalina; Cedeño-Sanchez, Marjorie; Rivera, Marleny; Barrios, Héctor; Brown, John W.; Calderón, Osvaldo; Cognato, Anthony I.; Kim, Jorma; Miller, Scott E.; Morse, Geoffrey E.; Pinzón-Navarro, Sara; Quicke, Donald L. J.; Robbins, Robert K.; Salminen, Juha-Pekka; Vesterinen, Eero (2019)
    The top-down and indirect effects of insects on plant communities depend on patterns of host use, which are often poorly documented, particularly in species-rich tropical forests. At Barro Colorado Island, Panama, we ...
  • Host specificity and interaction networks of insects feeding on seeds and fruits in tropical rainforests 
    Basset, Yves; Jorge, Leonardo R.; Butterill, Philip T.; Lamarre, Greg P. A.; Dahl, Chris; Ctvrtecka, Richard; Gripenberg, Sofia; Lewis, Owen T.; Barrios, Hector; Brown, John W.; Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh; Butcher, Buntika A.; Cognato, Anthony, I.; Davies, Stuart J.; Kaman, Ondrej; Klimes, Petr; Knizek, Milos; Miller, Scott E.; Morse, Geoffrey E.; Novotny, Vojtech; Pongpattananurak, Nantachai; Pramual, Pairot; Quicke, Donald L. J.; Sakchoowong, Watana; Umari, Ruma; Vesterinen, Eero J.; Weiblen, George; Wright, S. Joseph; Segar, Simon T. (2021)
    In the tropics, antagonistic seed predation networks may have different properties than mutualistic pollination and seed dispersal networks, but the former have been considerably less studied. We tested whether the structure ...
  • IBISCA-Panama, a large-scale study of arthropod beta-diversity and vertical stratification in a lowland rainforest: rationale, study sites and field protocols 
    Basset, Yves; Corbara, Bruno; Barrios, Hector; Cuenoud, Philippe; Leponce, Maurice; Aberlenc, Henri-Pierre; Bail, Johannes; Bito, Darren; Bridle, Jon R.; Castano Meneses, Gabriela; Cizek, Lukas; Cornejo Remice, Aidee; Curletti, Gianfranco; Delabie, Jacques H. C.; Dejean, Alain; Didham, Raphael K.; Dufrene, Marc; Fagan, Laura L.; Floren, Andreas; Frame, Dawn M.; Halle, Francis; Hardy, Olivier J.; Hernandez, Andres de J.; Kitching, Roger L.; Lewinsohn, Thomas M.; Lewis, Owen T.; Manumbor, Markus; Medianero, Enrique; Missa, Olivier; Mitchell, Andrew W.; Mogia, Martin; Novotny, Vojtech; Odegaard, Frode; Gama de Oliveira, Evandro; Orivel, Jerome; Ozanne, Claire M. P.; Pascal, Olivier; Pinzon, Sara; Rapp, Mathieu; Ribeiro, Servio Pontes; Roisin, Yves; Roslin, Tomas; Roubik, David Ward; Samaniego, Mirna; Schmidl, Jurgen; Sorensen, Line L.; Tishechkin, Alexey; Van Osselaer, Christian; Winchester, Neville N. (2007)
    IBISCA-Panama ("Investigating the BIodiversity of Soil and Canopy Arthropods", Panama module) represents a large-scale research initiative to quantify the spatial distribution of arthropod biodiversity in a ...
  • Increased mortality of tropical tree seedlings during the extreme 2015-16 El Nino 
    Browne, Luke; Markesteijn, Lars; Engelbrecht, Bettina M. J.; Jones, F. Andrew; Lewis, Owen T.; Manzane-Pinzon, Eric; Wright, S. Joseph; Comita, Liza S. (2021)
    As extreme climate events are predicted to become more frequent because of global climate change, understanding their impacts on natural systems is crucial. Tropical forests are vulnerable to droughts associated with extreme ...
  • Insect assemblages attacking seeds and fruits in a rainforest in Thailand 
    Basset, Yves; Ctvrtecka, Richard; Dahl, Chris; Miller, Scott E.; Quicke, Donald L. J.; Segar, Simon T.; Barrios, Hector; Beaver, Roger A.; Brown, John W.; Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh; Gripenberg, Sofia; Knizek, Milos; Kongnoo, Pitoon; Lewis, Owen T.; Pongpattananurak, Nantachai; Pramual, Pairot; Sakchoowong, Watana; Schutze, Mark (2019)
    Insect seed predators are important agents of mortality for tropical trees, but little is known about the impact of these herbivores in rainforests. During 3 years at Khao Chong (KHC) in southern Thailand we reared 17,555 ...
  • Insect conservation in tropical forests 
    Lewis, Owen T.; Basset, Yves (The Royal Entomological Society and CABI, 2007)
  • The insect-focused classification of fruit syndromes in tropical rain forests: An inter-continental comparison 
    Dahl, Chris; Ctvrtecka, Richard; Gripenberg, Sofia; Lewis, Owen T.; Segar, Simon T.; Klimes, Petr; Sam, Katerina; Rinan, Dominic; Filip, Jonah; Lilip, Roll; Kongnoo, Pitoon; Panmeng, Montarika; Putnaul, Sutipun; Reungaew, Manat; Rivera, Marleny; Barrios, Hector; Davies, Stuart J.; Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh; Wright, S. Joseph; Weiblen, George D.; Novotny, Vojtech; Basset, Yves (2019)
  • Insects on Plants: Explaining the Paradox of Low Diversity within Specialist Herbivore Guilds 
    Novotny, Vojtech; Miller, Scott E.; Hrcek, Jan; Baje, Leontine; Basset, Yves; Lewis, Owen T.; Stewart, Alan J. A.; Weiblen, George D. (2012)
    Classical niche theory explains the coexistence of species through their exploitation of different resources. Assemblages of herbivores coexisting on a particular plant species are thus expected to be dominated by species ...
  • Soil carbon stocks across tropical forests of Panama regulated by base cation effects on fine roots 
    Cusack, Daniela F.; Markesteijn, Lars; Condit, Richard S.; Lewis, Owen T.; Turner, Benjamin L. (2018)
    Tropical forests are the most carbon (C)-rich ecosystems on Earth, containing 25 40% of global terrestrial C stocks. While large-scale quantification of aboveground biomass in tropical forests has improved recently, soil ...
  • Structure and vertical stratification of plant galler-parasitoid food webs in two tropical forests 
    Paniagua, Miguel R.; Medianero, Enrique; Lewis, Owen T. (2009)
    Abstract. 1. Networks of feeding interactions among insect herbivores and natural enemies such as parasitoids, describe the structure of these assemblages and may be critically linked to their dynamics and stability. The ...
  • Young mixed planted forests store more carbon than monocultures—a meta-analysis 
    Warner, Emily; Cook-Patton, Susan; Lewis, Owen T.; Brown, Nick; Koricheva, Julia; Eisenhauer, Nico; Ferlian, Olga; Gravel, Dominique; Hall, Jefferson S.; Jactel, Hervé; Mayoral, Carolina; Meredieu, Céline; Messier, Christian; Paquette, Alain; Parker, William C.; Potvin, Catherine; Reich, Peter B.; Hector, Andy (2023)
    Although decades of research suggest that higher species richness improves ecosystem functioning and stability, planted forests are predominantly monocultures. To determine whether diversification of plantations would ...

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