Why do leaf-tying caterpillars abandon their leaf ties?
Leaf-tying caterpillars act as ecosystem engineers by building shelters between overlapping leaves, which are inhabited by other arthropods. Leaf-tiers have been observed to leave their ties and create new shelters (and thus additional microhabitats), but the ecological factors affecting shelter fid...
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PeerJ Inc.
2013-09-01
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| Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/173.pdf |