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Lethal Interactions Between Parasites and Prey Increase Niche Diversity in a Tropical Community

Published:2014-03-14 Issue:6176 Volume:343 Page:1240-1244
ISSN:0036-8075
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Author:

Condon Marty A.¹,Scheffer Sonja J.²,Lewis Matthew L.²,Wharton Robert³,Adams Dean C.⁴⁵,Forbes Andrew A.⁶

Affiliation:

1. Department of Biology, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, IA 52314, USA.

2. Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service–U.S. Department of Agriculture (ARS-USDA), Beltsville, MD 20705, USA.

3. Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.

4. Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.

5. Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.

6. Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.

Abstract

Hidden Diversity Why are there so many species in the tropics? Niche partitioning by highly specialized plant species seems to be the main generator of high diversity. Condon et al. (p. 1240 ; see the Perspective by

Godfray

) show that niche partitioning can also be generated by interactions between plant resources and parasites, resulting in hyperdiverse communities. The cryptic diversity of 14 neotropical fly pollinators and 18 of their highly specific wasp parasites induced mortality partitions between multiple narrow niches. The extreme specificity of the wasp-fly relationships was initially only revealed by molecular analysis.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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