Coping with an antagonist: The impact of a phytopathogenic fungus on the development and behaviour of two species of alpine leaf beetle

Oikos

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1514-1523

  Röder, Gregory ^a   Rahier, Martine ^a   E Naisbit, Russell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ANTAGONISM; BEETLE; FUNGUS; GROWTH RATE; LARVA; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; RUST DISEASE;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

ADENOSTYLES; ADENOSTYLES ALLIARIAE; ASTERACEAE; ASTERALES; CHRYSOMELIDAE; CIRSIUM; CIRSIUM SPINOSISSIMUM; COLEOPTERA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; OREINA CACALIAE; OREINA ELONGATA; PUCCINIACEAE; UREDINALES; UROMYCES;

EID: 34548008367     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2007.16057.x     Document Type: Article

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