Herbivore host plant selection: Whitefly learns to avoid host plants that harbour predators of her offspring

Oecologia

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 484-488

  Nomikou, Maria ^a   Janssen, Arne ^a   Sabelis, Maurice W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anti predator behaviour; Bemisia tabaci; Host plant selection; Predation; Typhlodromips swirskii

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; HOST PLANT; HOST SELECTION; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PREDATION RISK; WHITEFLY;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; FLY; MITE; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; DIPTERA; FEMALE; MITES; OVIPOSITION; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS;

ACARI; ALEYRODIDAE; ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BEMISIA; BEMISIA TABACI; HEMIPTERA;

EID: 0042696281     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-003-1289-1     Document Type: Article

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