Do tropical forest leaves suffer more insect herbivory? A comparison of tropical versus temperate herbivory, estimated from leaf litter

• Main Authors: Adams, Jonathan M., Zhang, Yangjian, Hamzah, Mohd Basri, Ab Shukor, Nor Aini
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: The Ecological Society of Japan 2009
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/6008/1/6008.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/6008/; http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11284-009-0623-4

It is generally believed that tropical forests suffer more herbivory, as a proportion of leaf area, than do temperate forests. Reviews so far have compared studies performed by different authors using very different methodologies. Here we carried out studies on 125 samples at 86 localities in easter...