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Lee A. Dyer
Researcher at University of Nevada, Reno
Publications - 151
Citations - 7142
Lee A. Dyer is an academic researcher from University of Nevada, Reno. The author has contributed to research in topics: Herbivore & Biodiversity. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 139 publications receiving 5994 citations. Previous affiliations of Lee A. Dyer include Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad & University of California, Santa Cruz.
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The global distribution of diet breadth in insect herbivores
Matthew L. Forister,Vojtech Novotny,Vojtech Novotny,Anna K. Panorska,Leontine Baje,Yves Basset,Yves Basset,Philip T. Butterill,Philip T. Butterill,Lukas Cizek,Lukas Cizek,Phyllis D. Coley,Phyllis D. Coley,Francesca Dem,Ivone Rezende Diniz,Pavel Drozd,Mark S. Fox,Andrea E. Glassmire,Rebecca F. Hazen,Jan Hrcek,Jan Hrcek,Jan Hrcek,Joshua P. Jahner,Ondrej Kaman,Ondrej Kaman,Tomasz J. Kozubowski,Thomas A. Kursar,Thomas A. Kursar,Owen T. Lewis,John T. Lill,Robert J. Marquis,Scott E. Miller,Helena C. Morais,Masashi Murakami,Herbert Nickel,Nicholas A. Pardikes,Robert E. Ricklefs,Michael S. Singer,Angela M. Smilanich,John O. Stireman,Santiago Villamarín-Cortez,Stepan Vodka,Stepan Vodka,Martin Volf,Martin Volf,David L. Wagner,Thomas R. Walla,George D. Weiblen,Lee A. Dyer +48 more
TL;DR: A global dataset is used to investigate host range for over 7,500 insect herbivore species covering a wide taxonomic breadth and interacting with more than 2,000 species of plants in 165 families to ask whether relatively specialized and generalized herbivores represent a dichotomy rather than a continuum from few to many host families and species attacked and whether diet breadth changes with increasing plant species richness toward the tropics.
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Host specificity of Lepidoptera in tropical and temperate forests
Lee A. Dyer,Michael S. Singer,John T. Lill,John O. Stireman,G. L. Gentry,Robert J. Marquis,Robert E. Ricklefs,Harold F. Greeney,David L. Wagner,Helena C. Morais,Ivone Rezende Diniz,Thomas A. Kursar,Thomas A. Kursar,Phyllis D. Coley,Phyllis D. Coley +14 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that greater specialization in tropical faunas is the result of differences in trophic interactions; for example, there are more distinct plant secondary chemical profiles from one tree species to the next in tropical forests than in temperate forests as well as more diverse and chronic pressures from natural enemy communities.
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Climatic unpredictability and parasitism of caterpillars: Implications of global warming
John O. Stireman,Lee A. Dyer,Daniel H. Janzen,Michael S. Singer,John T. Lill,Robert J. Marquis,Robert E. Ricklefs,Grant L. Gentry,Winifred Hallwachs,Phyllis D. Coley,J. A. Barone,Harold F. Greeney,Heidi Connahs,Pedro Barbosa,Helena C. Morais,Ivone Rezende Diniz +15 more
TL;DR: This work compares caterpillar-parasitoid interactions across a broad gradient of climatic variability and finds that the combined data in 15 geographically dispersed databases show a decrease in levels of parasitism as Climatic variability increases.
Climatic unpredictability and parasitism ofcaterpillars: Implications of global warming
Phyllis D. Coley,D. H. Janzen,Gentry G. L.,Pedro Barbosa,John O. Stireman,H. C. Morais,Heidi Connahs,Harold F. Greeney,M. S. Singer,J. A. Barone,I. R. Diniz,John T. Lill,Robert E. Ricklefs,W. Hallwachs,Robert J. Marquis,Lee A. Dyer +15 more
TL;DR: The National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology, the Department of Energy's National Institute for Global Environmental Change, the Earthwatch Institute, the Missouri Department of Conservation, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
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Revisiting the Evolution of Ecological Specialization, With Emphasis on Insect-Plant Interactions
TL;DR: New developments in the evolution of ecological specialization are synthesized, using insect-plant interactions as a model, to find that theory based on simple genetic trade-offs in host use is being replaced by more subtle and complex pictures of genetic architecture, and multitrophic interactions have risen as a necessary framework for understanding specialization.