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Science 30 July 2004:
Vol. 305. no. 5684, pp. 619 - 621
DOI: 10.1126/science.1101848
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Perspectives

ECOLOGY:
Herbivores Rule

Robert J. Marquis

For decades, ecologists have strived to elucidate the causes of high species diversity in tropical regions. In his Perspective, Marquis discusses the results of a recent field study in the Peruvian Amazon (Fine et al.) that clearly demonstrates how herbivorous predators, such as insects, influence tropical forest diversity by reinforcing specialization of plant species to different soil habitats.

The author is in the Department of Biology, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63121, USA. E-mail: robert_marquis{at}umsl.edu

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