Does low nutritional quality act as a plant defence? An experimental test of the slow-growth, high-mortality hypothesis

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 32-40

  Cornelissen, Tatiana ^a   Stiling, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fertilisation; Leaf miners; Natural enemies; Plant quality; Slow growth high mortality hypothesis; Tri trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

LEAFMINER; MORTALITY; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PARASITISM; PLANT DEFENSE; PREDATION; SURVIVORSHIP;

ACROCERCOPS; AGROMYZIDAE; BRACHYS TESSELATUS; QUERCUS CERRIS; QUERCUS LAEVIS;

EID: 33646471596     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0307-6946.2006.00752.x     Document Type: Article

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