Bottom-up cascade in a tri-trophic system: Different impacts of host-plant regeneration on performance of a willow leaf beetle and its natural enemy

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 58-62

  Kagata, Hideki ^a   Nakamura, Masahiro ^b   Ohgushi, Takayuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Food chain; Indirect interaction; Leaf beetle; Predatory ladybird; Willow

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BODY MASS; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; HOST QUALITY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SURVIVAL; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION;

CHRYSOMELIDAE; COCCINELLIDAE; COLEOPTERA; INSECTA; PLAGIODERA VERSICOLORA; SALIX; SALIX ARBUSCULOIDES;

EID: 13544259767     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0307-6946.2005.00667.x     Document Type: Article

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