How many species of host-specific insects feed on a species of tropical tree?

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 201-216

  Basset, Yves ^a,b   Samuelson, G A ^a   Allison, A ^a   Miller, S E ^a  

^a BISHOP MUSEUM   (United States)

^b c/o TROPENBOS ^*  (Guyana)

Author keywords

beetles; biodiversity; chewing insects; Coleoptera; host specificity; Papua New Guinea; species richness

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; TANACETUM CINERARIIFOLIUM;

EID: 0030443266     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1996.0061     Document Type: Article

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