Rebecca F. Hazen

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.

TL;DR: In this article, a simple metric of diversity in which richness, diversity indices (e.g., Simpson's 1/D), and rarefaction diversity are calculated with links as the basic unit rather than species is presented.

TL;DR: This paper examined the composition and structure of plant communities across New Orleans (Louisiana, USA) following catastrophic flooding triggered by levee failures during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and found that areas subject to the greatest flooding disturbance exhibit the highest rates of vegetation response.

TL;DR: This project creates a robust data set on plant-herbivore-enemy interactions in order to test specific hypotheses about how the diversity of trophic interactions varies across major environmental gradients and contributes to all major theoretical and applied issues in biodiversity research.

TL;DR: A new species of leaf-mining moth, Caloptilia triadicae, is described from the southern United States from Florida to eastern Texas, and it appears likely that C. Triadicae also originated from Asia.