Bottom-up and top-down effects on insect herbivores do not vary among sites of different salinity

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2673-2679

  Albarracin, Maria T ^a   Stiling, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asphondylia gall maker; Borrichia frutescens; Pissonotus sap sucker; Salinity gradient; Salt marsh; Top down and bottom up

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZER; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; HERBIVORE; PARASITISM; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; SALINITY; SALTMARSH; TOP-DOWN APPROACH;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; ECOSYSTEM; FLY; HEMIPTERA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INSECT; MOTH; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ASTERACEAE; DIPTERA; ECOSYSTEM; FERTILIZERS; FLORIDA; HEMIPTERA; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; INSECTS; MOTHS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOIL;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ARGYRESTHIA; ASPHONDYLIA; ASPHONDYLIA BORRICHIAE; BORRICHIA FRUTESCENS; INSECTA; PISSONOTUS; PISSONOTUS QUADRIPUSTULATUS;

EID: 33845361021     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[2673:BATEOI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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