Canopy insect herbivores in the Azorean Laurisilva forests: Key host plant species in a highly generalist insect community

Ecography

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 315-330

  Ribeiro, Sérvio P ^a   Borges, Paulo A V ^b   Gaspar, Clara ^b   Melo, Catarina ^b   Serrano, Artur R M ^c   Amaral, João ^b   Aguiar, Carlos ^c   André, Genage ^c   Quartau, José A ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GENERALIST; HOST PLANT; HOST SELECTION; INSECT; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AZORES; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; OCEANIC REGIONS; PORTUGAL; SANTA MARIA [AZORES]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

AZORICA; ERICA; INSECTA; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS BREVIFOLIA;

EID: 20444456302     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2005.04104.x     Document Type: Article

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