Plant quality and spider predation affects grasshoppers (Acrididae): Food-quality-dependent compensatory mortality

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 66-77

  Oedekoven, Mark A ^a   Joern, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageneotettix deorum; Developmental rates; Food chain; Food limitation; Food quality; Grasshoppers; Herbivory; Lycosid spiders; Mortality, compensatory vs. noncompensatory; Nebraska sandhills grassland; Predator prey interaction; Stage specific responses

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATION; FOOD QUALITY; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; GRASSHOPPER; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPIDER; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION;

ACRIDIDAE; AGENEOTETTIX DEORUM; ARANEAE; LYCOSIDAE; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 0033971232     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[0066:PQASPA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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