Food quality, competition, and parasitism influence feeding preference in a neotropical lepidopteran

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3058-3069

  Kursar, Thomas A ^a,b   Wolfe, Brett T ^b   Epps, Mary Jane ^b   Coley, Phyllis D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Competition; Electivity; Gelechiid; Herbivore growth; Inga; Leaf expansion; Leafing phenology; Lepidoptera; Panama; Parasitism; Plant quality

Indexed keywords

CATERPILLAR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOOD QUALITY; GROWTH RATE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PARASITISM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD PREFERENCE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; LEGUME; LEPIDOPTERA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; FABACEAE; FOOD PREFERENCES; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; PLANT LEAVES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BARRO COLORADO ISLAND; CENTRAL AMERICA; GATUN LAKE; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

FABACEAE; GELECHIIDAE; INGA; LEPIDOPTERA; MIMOSOIDEAE; TORTRICIDAE;

EID: 33845698284     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[3058:FQCAPI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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