Peer Review #1 of "Top-down and bottom-up controls on an herbivore on a native and introduced plant in a tropical agricultural landscape (v0.1)"
Abstract:The recent introduction in a tropical agricultural environment of a weedy open-habitat plant (Solanum myriacanthum) and subsequent host range expansion of a common forestedge butterfly (Mechanitis menapis) onto that plant provides an opportunity to examine reconfiguration of tritrophic networks in human-impacted landscapes. The objectives of this study were (1) determine if the caterpillars on the exotic host are more or less limited by plant defenses (bottom-up forces) and if they experience enemy release (de… Show more
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