Effects of fertilizer, fungal endophytes and plant cultivar on the performance of insect herbivores and their natural enemies

Functional Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 107-116

  Krauss, Jochen ^a   Härri, Simone A ^a   Bush, Lowell ^b   Husi, René ^a   Bigler, Laurent ^a   Power, Sally A ^c   Müller, Christine B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cereal aphids; Endophytic fungi; Neotyphodium lolii; Parasitoids; Trophic cascades

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALKALOID; APHID; CULTIVAR; ENDOPHYTE; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FUNGUS; HERBIVORE; HOST PLANT; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NATURAL ENEMY; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION;

APHIDIDAE; FUNGI; INSECTA; LOLIUM PERENNE; NEOTYPHODIUM LOLII;

EID: 33846236409     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2006.01216.x     Document Type: Article

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