On the conditional nature of neotropical caterpillar defenses against their natural enemies

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 3108-3119

  Gentry, Grant L ^a,b   Dyer, Lee A ^b,c  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b and Mass Communication   (United States)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Braconidae; Caterpillar defenses; Enemy free space; Insect plant interactions; Lepidoptera; Natural enemies; Nematoda; Parasitism; Predation; Secondary compounds; Tachinidae

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; CATERPILLAR; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; LARVA; PARASITISM; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; PREDATION;

BRACONIDAE; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; NEMATODA; PHACELIA CONGESTA; TACHINIDAE; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0000507479     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[3108:OTCNON]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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