Jack-of-all-trades paradigm meets long-term data: generalist herbivores are more widespread and locally less abundant
C. Sudta, D. Salcido, M. Forister, T. Walla, S. Villamarin-Cortez, L. A. Dyer
The paper uses a 17-year dataset of caterpillar-plant interactions to show that more specialized caterpillars are locally more abundant than generalists, but generalists are more prevalent at larger scales.
bioRxiv · Nov 27, 2020Ecology