On ecological fitting, plant-insect associations, herbivore host shifts, and host plant selection

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Few immigrant phytophagous insects on woody plants in Europe: legacy of the European crucible? (2007, background): “Every phytophagous immigrant is faced with the crucial and Herculean task of finding in the new environment a reasonable match to its former tritrophic niche (TTN), and then successfully penetrating and occupying it (Singer and Stireman 2005; Agosta 2006).”
Plant-mediated effects in the Brassicaceae on the performance and behaviour of parasitoids (2008, background): “logical fitting’ (Agosta 2006) may determine the success of insects associated with invasive plants.”
Predicting novel herbivore–plant interactions (2013, background): “Th e match or mismatch between specifi c plant and insect traits, regardless which process of the interaction these traits mediate, determines whether trophic interactions are realized (Agosta 2006).”
Finding Them Before They Find Us: Informatics, Parasites, and Environments in Accelerating Climate Change (2014, background): “An implicit feature is the assumption of a large sloppy fitness space (Agosta, 2006; Agosta and Klemens, 2008, 2009; Agosta et al., 2010) represented by an array of potential hosts from which most pathogens had been historically precluded by circumstances of time, space, and origin.”