Diversity of arthropod responses to host-plant water stress in a desert ecosystem in southern New Mexico

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 281-290

  Schowalter, T D ^a   Lightfoot, D C ^b   Whitford, W G ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; WATER STRESS;

NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LARREA; LARREA TRIDENTATA; LEPIDOPTERA; TRIDENTATA;

EID: 0032713090     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(1999)142[0281:DOARTH]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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