Manduca Quinquemaculata's optimization of intra-plant oviposition to predation, food quality, and thermal constraints

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 2346-2354

  Kessler, André ^a   Baldwin, Ian T ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Food quality; Geocoris pallens; Hornworm; Lepidoptera; Manduca quinquemaculata; Nicotiana attenuata; Oviposition; Predation; Sphingidae; Top down control

Indexed keywords

BODY TEMPERATURE; FOOD QUALITY; MOTH; OVIPOSITION; PREDATION; SITE SELECTION;

ANIMALIA; GEOCORIS PALLENS; HETEROPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYGAEIDAE; MANDUCA; MANDUCA QUINQUEMACULATA; NICOTIANA ATTENUATA; SPHINGIDAE;

EID: 0038343633     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[2346:MQSOOI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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