Suboptimal patch and plant choice by an ovipositing monophagous moth - An insurance against bad weather?

Oikos

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 301-308

  Förare, Jonas ^a   Engqvist, Leif ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OVIPOSITION; PATCH CHOICE; WEATHER;

ABROSTOLA ASCLEPIADIS; LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE;

EID: 0030302010     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546069     Document Type: Article

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