Behavioural responses of the leaf-chewing guild to the presence of Eriocrania mines on silver birch (Betula pendula)

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 156-162

  Fisher, A E I ^a,b   Hartley, S E ^a   Young, M ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b Culterty Field Station   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community structure; Feeding guild interactions; Operophtera brumata

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LEAFMINER;

BETULA PENDULA; ERIOCRANIA; ERIOCRANIIDAE; GEOMETRIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA; OPEROPHTERA BRUMATA;

EID: 0032929955     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2311.1999.00189.x     Document Type: Article

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