Complex effects of genotype and environment on insect herbivores and their enemies

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2212-2218

  Stiling, Peter ^a   Rossi, Anthony M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asphondylia borrichiae; Common garden experiment; Environment effects; Florida; Gall abortion rates; Gall abundance; Genotype by environment interactions; Parasitism rates; Parasitoid community; Plant genotype; Tri trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

GALL MIDGE; GENOTYPE; PARASITOID; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

USA, FLORIDA, PINELLAS COUNTY;

ASPHONDYLIA BORRICHIAE; BORRICHIA FRUTESCENS; CECIDOMYIIDAE; DIPTERA;

EID: 0030437166     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265714     Document Type: Article

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