The DOI matches its Crossref record; 25 of the 25 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Herbivores Promote Habitat Specialization by Trees in Amazonian Forests
Abstract
In an edaphically heterogeneous area in the Peruvian Amazon, clay soils and nutrient-poor white sands each harbor distinctive plant communities. To determine whether a trade-off between growth and antiherbivore defense enforces habitat specialization on these two soil types, we conducted a reciprocal transplant study of seedlings of 20 species from sixgenera of phylogenetically independent pairs of edaphic specialist trees and manipulated the presence of herbivores. Clay specialist species grew significantly faster than white-sand specialists in both soil types when protected from herbivores. However, when unprotected, white-sand specialists dominated in white-sand forests and clay specialists dominated in clay forests. Therefore, habitat specialization in this system results from an interaction of herbivore pressure with soil type.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Harper, J. L. (1977) · Medical Entomology and Zoology · Cited by 9,128
Resource Availability and Plant Antiherbivore Defense
Coley, P. D., Bryant, J. P., & Chapin, F. S. (1985) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.230.4728.895 · Cited by 3,967
Self-citationGEOGRAPHIC VARIATION, SPECIATION, AND CLINES
Hedrick, P. W. (1978) · Evolution · doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1978.tb04617.x · Cited by 2,395
Phylogenetics of Seed Plants: An Analysis of Nucleotide Sequences from the Plastid Gene rbcL
Chase, M. W., Soltis, D. E., Olmstead, R. G., Morgan, D., Les, D. H., Mishler, B. D., Duvall, M. R., Price, R. A., Hills, H. G., Qiu, Y.-L., et al. (1993) · Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden · doi:10.2307/2399846 · Cited by 2,032
HERBIVORY AND PLANT DEFENSES IN TROPICAL FORESTS
Coley, P. D., & Barone, J. A. (1996) · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics · doi:10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.27.1.305 · Cited by 1,807
Self-citationConservation Biology: The Science of Scarcity and Diversity
Soulé, M. E. (1986) · Andalas University Repository (Andalas University) · Cited by 1,806
Gentry, A. H. (1988) · Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden · doi:10.2307/2399464 · Cited by 1,677
Effects of herbivores on grassland plant diversity
Olff, H., & Ritchie, M. E. (1998) · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · doi:10.1016/s0169-5347(98)01364-0 · Cited by 1,528
Dispersal, Environment, and Floristic Variation of Western Amazonian Forests
Tuomisto, H., Ruokolainen, K., & Yli-Halla, M. (2003) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1078037 · Cited by 1,018
Tropical Blackwater Rivers, Animals, and Mast Fruiting by the Dipterocarpaceae
Janzen, D. H. (1974) · Biotropica · doi:10.2307/2989823 · Cited by 918
Cited by
The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology
Cavender‐Bares, J., Kozak, K. H., Fine, P. V. A., & Kembel, S. W. (2009) · Ecology Letters · doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01314.x · Cited by 2,321
Self-citationMacroevolution and the biological diversity of plants and herbivores
Futuyma, D. J., & Agrawal, A. A. (2009) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0904106106 · Cited by 632
Macroevolution of plant defense strategies
Agrawal, A. A. (2007) · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · doi:10.1016/j.tree.2006.10.012 · Cited by 458
Interactions between resource availability and enemy release in plant invasion
Blumenthal, D. M. (2006) · Ecology Letters · doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.00934.x · Cited by 339
Seed survival in soil: interacting effects of predation, dormancy and the soil microbial community
Dalling, J. W., Davis, A. S., Schutte, B. J., & Elizabeth Arnold, A. (2011) · Journal of Ecology · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01739.x · Cited by 297
Metadata
- Authors
- Fine, P. V. A., Mesones, I., & Coley, P. D.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2004-07-30
- Volume
- 305
- Issue
- 5684
- Pages
- 663-665
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2025540191
- Cited by
- 599
- References
- 25
- FWCI
- 18.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Herbivores Promote Habitat Specialization by Trees in Amazonian Forests. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1126/science.1098982
- The paper
- Fine, P. V. A., Mesones, I., & Coley, P. D. (2004). Herbivores Promote Habitat Specialization by Trees in Amazonian Forests. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1098982
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
