New paper led by Riley Anderson out now in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

We find that parasitism of dietary specialist caterpillars increases with patch size of forest fragments, but parasitism of dietary generalists is unaffected. Addtionally, dietary specialist caterpillars were more sensitive than dietary generalists to inter-annual variation in diet quality.

Lots of people contributed to this one, including two awesome undergrads from our lab, Nikki Pirtel and Christian Connors, and post-doc James Mickley – nice work guys! Thanks also to our collaborators in Mike Singer’s lab at Wesleyan – undergrad Nicole Dallar and grad student Riley Anderson.