Sunday 16 March 2014

More to biological diversity than meets the eye: Specialization by insect species is the key

Date:
March 13, 2014

Source:
University of Iowa

Summary:
Scientists found greater diversity among insects in a rainforest in Peru than theory would predict. Scientists have been studying flies in the tropics for years, and now report evidence that there is more to a fly's ecological niche than where it lives and what it eats -- you have to look at what eats the fly, as well.


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