Direct and indirect responses of parasitoids to plants: Sex ratio, plant quality and herbivore diet breadth

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 289-292

  Fox, Laurel R ^a   Kester, Karen M ^b   Eisenbach, Jamin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

B. nigra; Brassica oleracea; cabbage looper; Cruciferae; demography; Diadegma insulare; diamondback moth; fertilization; Hymenoptera; Ichneumonidae; Lepidoptera; Noctuidae; Patrocloides montanus; Plutella xylostella; Plutellidae; sex ratio; tri trophic interactions; Trichoplusia

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029778127     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.1996.tb00938.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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