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Ecology and Evolution of Leafhopper—Grass Host Relationships in North American Grasslands

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Current Topics in Vector Research

Part of the book series: Current Topics in Vector Research ((VECTOR,volume 4))

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In this chapter we summarize current knowledge concerning ecological and evolutionary relationships between leafhoppers and North American grasslands. Although the treatment synthesizes information that has accumulated over a half century, the emphasis is on recent work in our own laboratory. Despite early recognition of the basic importance of host selection in insect ecology (27, 38), efforts to synthesize this information have been fragmentary because the North American grasslands that existed before European colonization were immense in size and complexity. The cicadellids that evolved with them have a similarly immense diversity of host relationships and life history strategies. The physical intermixing of prairie grasses and forbs is also complex, making it difficult to collect unambiguous host records, as evidenced by previous studies on cicadellid—grass relationships (31–33, 60, 63–65, 99–102, 144, 145). Once satisfactory methods were found, the task of gathering sufficient information proved to be time-consuming. Thus, even a preliminary analysis of grassland—insect communities has required many years of study.

“…systematists…approach closer and closer to the actual truth about species separation and about phylogeny. This will give us a firmer and firmer basis for other aspects of scientific understanding based on phylogeny. I refer here to geographic dispersal, ecological dispersal, the evolution of ecological communities, and a myriad of other phenomena that cannot be related at present on their own information content but can often be related if a family tree of their taxonomic entities is available.”

Herbert H. Ross (116).

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Whitcomb, R.F., Kramer, J., Coan, M.E., Hicks, A.L. (1987). Ecology and Evolution of Leafhopper—Grass Host Relationships in North American Grasslands. In: Harris, K.F. (eds) Current Topics in Vector Research. Current Topics in Vector Research, vol 4. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4712-8_5

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