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Life Cycle Strategies and Plant Succession

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The Evolution of Insect Life Cycles

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Abstract

Variation in insect life cycle strategies is commonly encountered and has featured prominently in recent symposia (e.g., Dingle 1978; Brown and Hodek 1983). Such variability has been attributed to physical, seasonal, or geographical characteristics and has also been explained in terms of the r-K continuum (MacArthur and Wilson 1967) and bet hedging (Stearns 1976). Much more rarely have changes in insect life cycle strategies been related to habitat characteristics (e.g., Denno and Dingle 1981; Denno 1983) and seldom, if ever, have they been described in terms of the vegetational characteristics of the habitat. Indeed, studies of the insect fauna of specific habitats only rarely include consideration of the life cycle strategies of the species involved (e.g., Niemela et al. 1982). However, adaptive life cycle traits are of particular relevance in herbivorous species, since insect grazing is now considered by some to be a major selective force in the maintenance of plant diversity in time and space (e.g., Breedlove and Ehrlich 1972; Ehrlich 1970), in the evolution of anti-herbivore defense mechanisms such as secondary chemicals and morphological features of plants (Feeny 1976), and on the pattern and rate of plant succession (Brown 1982a, 1985, Stinson 1983).

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    Fritz Taylor

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    Richard Karban

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Brown, V.K. (1986). Life Cycle Strategies and Plant Succession. In: Taylor, F., Karban, R. (eds) The Evolution of Insect Life Cycles. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8666-7_7

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