Influence of feeding guild on insect response to host plant fertilization

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 270-278

  Meyer, Gretchen A ^a   Root, Richard B ^b  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Goldenrod; Guilds; Host plant fertilization; Host plant quality; Insect herbivores; Plant vigour hypothesis; Solidago altissima

Indexed keywords

FEEDING GUILD; FERTILIZATION; GOLDENROD; HERBIVORY; HOST PLANT QUALITY; POPULATION DENSITY;

COMPOSITAE; SOLIDAGO ALTISSIMA;

EID: 0030302851     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1996.tb01244.x     Document Type: Article

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