Can plants gain protection from herbivory by association with unpalatable neighbours?: A field experiment in a willow-sawfly system

Oikos

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 317-322

  Hjältén, Joakim ^a,b   Price, Peter W ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHERBIVORE DEFENCE; PALATABILITY; SAWFLY; WILLOW;

EUURA LASIOLEPIS; HYMENOPTERA; PHYLLOCOLPA; SALICACEAE; SALIX LASIOLEPIS; TENTHREDINIDAE;

EID: 0030620795     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546299     Document Type: Article

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