Determinants of predation on phytophagou
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Lee A. Dyer; Ted Floyd
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Article
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1993
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Springer-Verlag
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English
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To evaluate the role of predation in the evolution of diet specialization and to determine the effectiveness of various larval defenses, we offered lepidopteran larvae to colonies of the tropical ant Paraponera clavata. We recorded behavioral and physical characteristics of prey items and used log-l