RICH AND sPECIALIZED PLANT-INsECT ASSOCIATIONs IN A MIDDLE-LATE PALEOCENE (58-60 MA) NEOTROPICAL RAINFOREsT (BOGOTA FORMATION, COLOMBIA)

Giraldo, LA; Labandeira, C; Herrera, F; Carvalho, M

Giraldo, LA (corresponding author), Univ EAFIT, Dept Ciencias Biol, Programa Biol, Medellin 050022, Colombia.; Giraldo, LA (corresponding author), Smithsonian Trop Res Inst, Box 0843-03092, Panama City, Panama.

AMEGHINIANA, 2021; 58 (2): 75

Abstract

Plant predation by insects is a major driver of high plant diversity in modern tropical forests. Previous reports of leaf damage in middle-late Paleoc......

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