The slow-growth-high-mortality hypothesis: A test using the cabbage butterfly

Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 987-999

  Benrey, Betty ^a,b   Denno, Robert F ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cotesia glomerata; Encapsulation; Parasitism; Pieris rapae; Risk of parasitism; Slow growth high mortality hypothesis

Indexed keywords

BRASSICA; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA; CLEOME; CLEOME SPINOSA; COTESIA GLOMERATA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LUNARIA ANNUA; PIERIS BRASSICAE; PIERIS RAPAE; TROPAEOLACEAE; TROPAEOLUM MAJUS; BRACONIDAE; BRASSICA OLERACEA; BRASSICACEAE; CAPPARACEAE; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; PIERIDAE;

DEVELOPMENT TIME; GROWTH RATE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MORTALITY; PARASITISM; SLOW-GROWTH-HIGH-MORTALITY HYPOTHESIS;

EID: 0030614115     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[0987:TSGHMH]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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