Insect herbivores can affect plant abundance and community composition, and theory suggests that herbivores influence plant communities by altering interspecific interactions among plants. Because the ...

Animals have evolved to eat a lot of different things, even stuff that barely passes for food, and it shapes our entire lives from what we look like to where we live. Today, we’ll talk about why being ...

Type II functional responses are frequently observed in herbivores feeding in patches where plants are concentrated in space. We tested a mechanistic model of regulation of intake rate of herbivores ...