Phylogenetic relatedness of food plants reveals highest insect herbivore specialization at intermediate temperatures along a broad climatic gradient - König, Sebastian; Krauss, Jochen; Keller, Alexander; Bofinger, Lukas; Steffan‐Dewenter, Ingolf (Global change biology, 2022)
Keywords: Alps; Altitude; Animals; Availability; Climate change; Climatic conditions; cold; diet breadth; distance‐based specialization index; DNA barcoding; Faecal pellets; Feeding; Food plants; Germany; Grasslands; Habitats; Herbivores; Herbivory; High temperature; Humans; Hypotheses; Insecta; Insects; interaction networks; metabarcoding; microclimate; Niche breadth; Niches; Orthoptera; Phylogenetics; Phylogeny; phytophagous insects; Plant resources; plant richness; plant-insect relations; Plants; Plants, Edible; Resource availability; Specialization; Species; summer; Surveys; Temperature; temperature gradient; Temperature gradients; Vegetation surveys; Germany; Alps; plant richness; temperature gradient; metabarcoding; microclimate; herbivores; Orthoptera; diet breadth; interaction networks; distance-based specialization index