The interplay between plant traits and herbivore attack: A study of a stem galling midge in the neotropics

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 80-88

  Paulo Inácio, K L Prado ^a   Vieira, Emerson Monteiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Asteraceae; Cecidomyiidae; Galls; Herbivory; Plant vigour hypothesis; Resource regulation hypothesis

Indexed keywords

GALL; HERBIVORE; MORPHOLOGY;

DIPTERA; EREMANTHUS ERYTHROPAPPUS; NEOLASIOPTERA;

EID: 0344628887     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2311.1999.00173.x     Document Type: Article

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