Relationships between food quality and fitness in the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria, and its distribution over habitats on the Red Sea coastal plain of Sudan

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 144-156

  Van Huis, A ^a   Woldewahid, G ^a,b   Toleubayev, K ^a,c   Van Der Werf, W ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)   (Ethiopia)

^c Research Institute for Plant Protection   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

Acrididae; Cannibalism; Fecundity; Heliotropium; Host plants; Leaf nitrogen content; Life table; Mortality; Orthoptera; Panicum; Stage duration; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

CANNIBALISM; COASTAL PLAIN; FITNESS; FOOD QUALITY; GRASS; LOCUST; MORTALITY; NITROGEN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT COMMUNITY; REPRODUCTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; RED SEA [SUDAN]; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; SUDAN;

ACRIDIDAE; BORAGINACEAE; HELIOTROPIUM; HELIOTROPIUM ARBAINENSE; ORTHOPTERA; PANICUM; PANICUM TURGIDUM; PENNISETUM GLAUCUM; POACEAE; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA;

EID: 42449140275     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2008.00682.x     Document Type: Article

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