Agrawal, A. A., Janssen, A., Bruin, J., Posthumus, M.A., Sabelis, W. M. 2002. An ecological cost of plant defense: attractiveness of bitter cucumber plants to natural enemies of herbivores. Ecology Letters 5: 377-385. The authors examine this tritrophic system from the bottom-up perspective by comparing the direct plant defense of producing the bitter compound, cucurbitacin, which repels the he...

1 Department of Nature Conservation and Plant Ecology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalse steeg 3a, 6708 PD Wageningen, The Netherlands 2 Department of Plant Production Systems, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 430, 6700 AK Wageningen, The Netherlands 3 Department of Hydrology and Geo-Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1...

Jeffrey M. Diez*, Itamar Giladi, Robert Warren and H. Ronald Pulliam Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA; Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion 84990, Israel; Department of Biology, SUNY Buffalo State, Buffalo, NY 14222, USA; and Odum S...

Pieter A. Zuidema*, Eelke Jongejans, Pham D. Chien, Heinjo J. During and Feike Schieving Ecology and Biodiversity Group, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands; Experimental Plant Ecology, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Forest Science Institute of Vietnam, Dong Ngac, Tu Liem, Han...

VALENTÍ RULL,∗†† TERESA VEGAS-VILARRÚBIA,† SANDRA NOGUÉ,∗‡ AND OTTO HUBER§∗∗ ∗CSIC-Botanic Institute of Barcelona, Palynology & Paleoecology, Pg. del Migdia s/n, 08038 Barcelona, Spain †University of Barcelona, Department of Ecology, Av. Diagonal 645, 08028 Barcelona, Spain ‡Autonomous University of Barcelona, Department of Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology, Campus Bellaterra, 08193 Bar...

Sergio Rasmann*, Taryn L. Bauerle, Katja Poveda and Rachel Vannette Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Corson Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA; Horticulture, Plant Science Building, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA; Agroecology, Georg August University, Waldweg 26, D-37073 Goettingen, Germany; Entomology, Comstock Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 148...

Global Change and Photosynthesis Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, Departments of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences, Institute of Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801 (D.R.O.); Chinese Academy of Sciences-German Max Planck Society Partner Institute for Computational Biology and Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology...

Nonlinear dimensionality reduction: Alternative ordination approaches for extracting and visualizing biodiversity patterns in tropical montane forest vegetation data Miguel D. Mahecha⁎, Alfredo Martínez, Gunnar Lischeid, Erwin Beck Ecological Modelling, Bayreuth Centre for Ecology and Ecosystem Research BayCEER, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany Max Planck Institute for Biogeochem...

Little is known about the effect of diversity surrounding a focal plant species on the belowground community under that species. At least two alternative hypotheses exist. First, studies involving a range of ecosystems and taxonomic groups have shown that changes in diversity in one group of species can promote diversity in other groups. Alternatively, many studies in soil ecology have shown th...