New preprint is out!
Across 75,000 km² of lowland rainforest in Papua New Guinea, we show that parasitoid communities exhibit higher spatial turnover than their caterpillar hosts, and that interaction turnover increases across trophic levels.
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Spatial turnover amplifies with trophic level in hyperdiverse food webs
One of the most intuitive ideas in ecology is that diversity at lower trophic levels in food webs provides niches to support diversity at higher trophic levels. This accumulation of diversity can be l...