Insects on plants: Diversity of herbivore assemblages revisited

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 36, Issue , 2005, Pages 597-620

  Lewinsohn, Thomas M ^a   Novotny, Vojtech ^b   Basset, Yves ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Herbivory; Insect plant interactions; Local and regional richness; Species diversity; Tropical insects

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; HERBIVORE; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 30344452001     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.36.091704.175520     Document Type: Review

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