Conceptual diagram about specialist insect pests
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Detailed Description
A conceptual diagram of the drivers that may determine the impact of a specialist insect pest. We posit that the relationship between evolutionarily naïve host plants and invasive insect species is the strongest driver of a high-impact invasion. The diagram, modified from the synthetic invasion meta-framework described by Gurevitch et al. (2011), is guiding our USGS Powell working group’s data compilation and synthesis. Click on image to enlarge it.