The generalism-specialism debate: the role of generalists in the life and death of species

Moroccan Source Areas of the Painted Lady ButterflyVanessa cardui(Nymphalidae: Nymphalinae) Migrating into Europe in Spring

(2016) Constantí Stefanescu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE LEPIDOPTERISTS SOCIETY

The evolutionary improbability of ‘generalism’ in nature, with special reference to insects

(2011) HUGH D. LOXDALE et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

The biogeography of the western Mediterranean: elucidating contradictory distribution patterns of differentiation in Maniola jurtina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

(2011) LEONARDO DAPPORTO et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Phylogenetic island disequilibrium: evidence for ongoing long-term population dynamics in two Mediterranean butterflies

(2011) Leonardo Dapporto et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography at Age Ten

(2011) James Rosindell et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Bridges and barriers to host shifts resulting from host plant genotypic variation

(2011) Timothy P. Craig et al.   Journal of Plant Interactions

Unexpected layers of cryptic diversity in wood white Leptidea butterflies

(2011) Vlad Dincă et al.   Nature Communications

How specialists can be generalists: resolving the "parasite paradox" and implications for emerging infectious disease

(2011) Salvatore J. Agosta et al.   Zoologia

Native and Exotic Pests of Eucalyptus: A Worldwide Perspective

(2010) Timothy D. Paine et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Detection of extinction debt depends on scale and specialisation

(2010) Sara A.O. Cousins et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

How common is ecological speciation in plant-feeding insects? A 'Higher' Nematinae perspective

(2010) Tommi Nyman et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Impacts of climate warming on hybrid zone movement: Geographically diffuse and biologically porous “species borders”

(2010) J. Mark Scriber   Insect Science

Integrating ancient patterns and current dynamics of insect-plant interactions: Taxonomic and geographic variation in herbivore specialization

(2010) J. Mark Scriber   Insect Science

Field Studies Reveal Strong Postmating Isolation between Ecologically Divergent Butterfly Populations

(2010) Carolyn S. McBride et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Phylogeography and counter-intuitive inferences in island biogeography: evidence from morphometric markers in the mobile butterfly Maniola jurtina (Linnaeus) (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae)

(2009) LEONARDO DAPPORTO et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

To speciate, or not to speciate? Resource heterogeneity, the subjectivity of similarity, and the macroevolutionary consequences of niche-width shifts in plant-feeding insects

(2009) Tommi Nyman   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Rarity and extinction risk in coral reef angelfishes on isolated islands: interrelationships among abundance, geographic range size and specialisation

(2009) Jean-Paul A. Hobbs et al.   CORAL REEFS

Ecological specialization and population size in a biodiversity hotspot: How rare species avoid extinction

(2009) S. E. Williams et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

What, if anything, is sympatric speciation?

(2008) B. M. FITZPATRICK et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The relative exploitation of annuals as larval host plants by European butterflies

(2008) Roger J. Kemp et al.   JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY

A general framework for the statistical exploration of the ecological niche

(2008) Clément Calenge et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Host plant preference and performance of the sibling species of butterflies Leptidea sinapis and Leptidea reali: a test of the trade-off hypothesis for food specialisation

(2008) Magne Friberg et al.   OECOLOGIA

A consumer's guide to nestedness analysis

(2008) Werner Ulrich et al.   OIKOS

Increasing morphological complexity in multiple parallel lineages of the Crustacea

(2008) S. J. Adamowicz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Species richness in Madeiran land snails, and its causes

(2007) Laurence M. Cook   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY