What we did: We planted a huge field with 26 different clones of the willow tree, Salix hookeriana.
What we found: We found that the genes of the willow tree affected which flies fed on the tree, which in turn affected which tiny wasps (parasitoids) attacked the flies.
Why this matters: When genes from a tree get phased out, all of the species that depend on that tree can be affected.
These findings are in press at PNAS in a paper entitled, "Genetic specificity of a plant-insect food web: implications for linking genetic variation to network complexity".
manuscript: This folder contains all of the data and code necessary to reproduce our published results. It also includes all figures associated with the manuscripts as well as the original and revised versions of the paper.
raw_data_management: This folder contains all of the data and code required to generate the clean empirical data file, "tree_level_interaxn_all_plants_traits_size.csv".