Our paper on exploring the network structure and taxonomic composition of oak gall wasp community in Sichuan🇨🇳 is now published! I played a very small role in this long term project, but I was able to tag along for some field work last spring to the magical Mt. Emei. 🧪
The cynipid fauna is largely unexplored in East and Southeast Asia, and not surprisingly most of the 176 gall wasp and 76 parasitoid species we included in this study (from two sites in one province in China) do not have scientific names! 🧪 resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
We quantified previously unstudied tritrophic gall communities on Fagaceae in Sichuan, China, testing for ‘bottom-up’ effects of host plant diversity on plant–herbivore and plant–parasitoid interact.....