Resource abundance and insect herbivore diversity on woody fabaceous desert plants

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 696-703

  De Alckmin Marques, E S ^a   Price, P W ^a   Cobb, N S ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Herbivory; Insect diversity; Plant size hypothesis; Resource abundance hypothesis; Resource concentration hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SIZE EFFECT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; TRIXIS;

EID: 0033850585     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225x-29.4.696     Document Type: Article

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