Modeling nitrogen flux by larval insect herbivores from a temperate hardwood forest

Oecologia

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 833-843

  Meehan, Timothy D ^a   Lindroth, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass; Consumer driven nutrient cycling; Ecological stoichiometry; Environmental temperature; Forest insects; Hymenoptera; Lepidoptera; Metabolic theory of ecology

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

BODY MASS; CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; FLY; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORE; LARVA; METABOLISM; MOTH; NITROGEN CYCLE; STOICHIOMETRY; TEMPERATE FOREST;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; LARVA; METABOLISM; PLANT LEAF; TEMPERATURE; TREE;

ANIMALS; INSECTS; LARVA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN; PLANT LEAVES; TEMPERATURE; TREES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 34548593189     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0797-9     Document Type: Article

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