{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Anttonen P"],"funding":["German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research","financial support from the DFG under the programme Open Access Publishing","Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft"],"pagination":["1100"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9785672"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["13(12)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Nutritional content of host plants is expected to drive caterpillar species assemblages and their trait composition. These relationships are altered by tree richness-induced neighborhood variation and a seasonal decline in leaf quality. We tested how key functional traits related to the growth and defenses of the average caterpillar hosted by a tree species are shaped by nutritional host quality. We measured morphological traits and estimated plant community-level diet breadth based on occurrences from 1020 caterpillars representing 146 species in a subtropical tree diversity experiment from spring to autumn in one year. We focused on interspecific caterpillar trait variation by analyzing presence-only patterns of caterpillar species for each tree species. Our results show that tree richne"],"journal":["Insects"],"pubmed_title":["Leaf Nutritional Content, Tree Richness, and Season Shape the Caterpillar Functional Trait Composition Hosted by Trees."],"pmcid":["PMC9785672"],"funding_grant_id":["DFG - FZT 118, 202548816","319936945/GRK2324"],"pubmed_authors":["Wang MQ","Li Y","Bruelheide H","Schuldt A","Anttonen P","Chesters D","Chen JT","Davrinche A","Ma KP","Zhu CD","Haider S"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Leaf Nutritional Content, Tree Richness, and Season Shape the Caterpillar Functional Trait Composition Hosted by Trees.","description":"Nutritional content of host plants is expected to drive caterpillar species assemblages and their trait composition. These relationships are altered by tree richness-induced neighborhood variation and a seasonal decline in leaf quality. We tested how key functional traits related to the growth and defenses of the average caterpillar hosted by a tree species are shaped by nutritional host quality. We measured morphological traits and estimated plant community-level diet breadth based on occurrences from 1020 caterpillars representing 146 species in a subtropical tree diversity experiment from spring to autumn in one year. We focused on interspecific caterpillar trait variation by analyzing presence-only patterns of caterpillar species for each tree species. Our results show that tree richne","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Nov","modification":"2025-04-04T08:00:31.518Z","creation":"2025-04-04T08:00:31.518Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9785672","cross_references":{"pubmed":["36555010"],"doi":["10.3390/insects13121100"]}}