“…Competition (Kaplan & Denno, 2007;Mopper, 2005), escape from natural enemies (Egan & Ott, 2007;Karban & Agrawal, 2002), and resource depletion (Revilla, Encinas-Viso, & Loreau, 2014) are possible biological factors used to explain the variation in the herbivore community structure among temporary resource patches of the host plant. However, the role of those biological factors in shaping the structure of natural communities has been little tested experimentally (see Gurevitch, Morrison, & Hedges, 2000;Oliveira et al, 2013;Pereira et al, 2014).…”