Host tree architecture mediates the effect of predators on herbivore survival

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 227-235

  Riihimäki, Janne ^a   Vehviläinen, Harri ^a   Kaitaniemi, Pekka ^b   Koricheva, Julia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ants; Birch; Enemy free space; Epirrita autumnata; Plant structure; Spiders; Tritrophic interactions

Indexed keywords

HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PLANT ARCHITECTURE; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; SURVIVAL; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION;

ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; BETULA PUBESCENS SUBSP. TORTUOSA; EPIRRITA AUTUMNATA; FORMICIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 33744723397     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2006.00784.x     Document Type: Article

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