Plant reproductive allocation predicts herbivore dynamics across spatial and temporal scales

American Naturalist

Volumn 168, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 608-616

  Miller, Tom E X ^a   Tyre, Andrew J ^b   Louda, Svata M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Demographic model; Herbivory; Insect plant interactions; Opuntia; Population dynamics; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

CACTUS; GROWTH; HERBIVORE; INSECT; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DESERT CLIMATE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEMIPTERA; MERISTEM; OPUNTIA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; DESERT CLIMATE; HEMIPTERA; MERISTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEW MEXICO; OPUNTIA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS;

NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CACTACEAE; INSECTA; NARNIA PALLIDICORNIS; OPUNTIA; OPUNTIA IMBRICATA;

EID: 33750954032     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/509610     Document Type: Article

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