Prey species and prey diet affect growth of invertebrate predators

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 68-79

  Strohmeyer, Heather Horan ^b   Stamp, Nancy E ^a   Jarzomski, Christine M ^b   Bowers, M Deane ^b  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Iridoid glycoside; Junonia coenia; Manduca sexta; Nutritional ecology; Phidippus audax; Plantago lanceolata; Podisus maculiventris; Predator prey interaction; Vanessa cardui

Indexed keywords

FOOD QUALITY; GENERALIST PREDATOR; GROWTH RATE; LEAF AGE;

ARANEAE; COLEOPTERA; HETEROPTERA; JUNONIA COENIA; JUNONIA COENIS; LEPIDOPTERA; MANDUCA SEXTA; NYMPHALIDAE; PENTATOMIDAE; PHIDIPPUS AUDAX; PLANTAGO LANCEOLATA; PODISUS MACULIVENTRIS; SALTICIDAE; SPHINGIDAE; TENEBRIO MOLITOR; TENEBRIONIDAE; VANESSA CARDUI;

EID: 0031912508     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2311.1998.00101.x     Document Type: Article

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