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JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY
卷 31, 期 -, 页码 473-476出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467415000243
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Andes; Asteraceae; feeding guilds; Lepidoptera; Piperaceae; tropical montane forest
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [FOR 816, Fi 547/10-1, Fi 547/10-2]
Lepidopteran caterpillars are typically classified as herbivorous insects. Other feeding associations have been known for a long time but are often neglected in the ecological literature. In samples from 194 shrubs belonging to 16 species of Piperaceae and Asteraceae, which were taken in a montane forest and succession habitats in southern Ecuador, caterpillar assemblages included an unexpectedly large fraction not feeding on the living biomass of their putative 'host'. Feeding trials revealed them to instead feed on foliose lichens, dead leaves and epiphylls (lichen, algae, bryophytes). These 'alternative feeders' accounted for 22.5% of the whole dataset and up to 80% of the caterpillars on individual plant species. Densities of alternative feeders were very similar across shrub species within each plant family, but differed strongly between Asteraceae in succession and Piperaceae in forest habitats. Herbivore caterpillars showed the opposite pattern with strong differences between individual plant species, but overall similar densities on both plant families.
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