Trade-off in oviposition strategy: Choosing poor quality host plants reduces mortality from natural enemies for a salt marsh planthopper

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 236-241

  Moon, Daniel C ^a   Stiling, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom up; Egg parasitoid; Mortality; Salt marsh; Top down

Indexed keywords

EGG PARASITOID; EGG PRODUCTION; OVIPOSITION; PLANTHOPPER;

ARCHAEORRHYNCHA; BORRICHIA FRUTESCENS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PISSONOTUS; PISSONOTUS QUADRIPUSTULATUS;

EID: 33744727968     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2006.00785.x     Document Type: Article

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