Potential for self-defeating biological control? Variation in herbivore vulnerability among invasive Spartina genotypes

Ecological Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1640-1649

  Garcia Rossi, Dino ^a   Rank, Nathan ^b   Strong, Donald R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS   (United States)

^b SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Herbivory; Prokelisia marginata; Resistance; Spartina alterniflora; Spartina anglica; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; GENOTYPE; GRASS; HERBIVORY; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANTHOPPER; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES]; WILLAPA BAY;

ARCHAEORRHYNCHA; INSECTA; PROKELISIA; PROKELISIA MARGINATA; SPARTINA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA; SPARTINA ANGLICA;

EID: 1642279692     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/01-5301     Document Type: Article

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