Resource regulation by a twig-girdling beetle has implications for desertification

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 161-166

  Duval, B D ^a,b   Whitford, W G ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chihuahuan Desert; Landscape conversion; Oncideres rhodosticta; Plant herbivore interactions; Prosopis glandulosa

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; COMPENSATION; DESERTIFICATION; HERBIVORY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LEGUME; OVIPOSITION; RESOURCE USE; STEM;

CHIHUAHUAN DESERT; NORTH AMERICA;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; ONCIDERES; PROSOPIS; PROSOPIS GLANDULOSA;

EID: 40349083830     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2007.00928.x     Document Type: Article

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