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SUBMITTER: Laska A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8437026 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Laska Alicja A Magalhães Sara S Lewandowski Mariusz M Puchalska Ewa E Karpicka-Ignatowska Kamila K Radwańska Anna A Meagher Shawn S Kuczyński Lechosław L Skoracka Anna A
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20210901 1958
In seasonal environments, sinks that are more persistent than sources may serve as temporal stepping stones for specialists. However, this possibility has to our knowledge, not been demonstrated to date, as such environments are thought to select for generalists, and the role of sinks, both in the field and in the laboratory, is difficult to document. Here, we used laboratory experiments to show that herbivorous arthropods associated with seasonally absent main (source) habitats can endure on a ...[more]