Complementarity effects through dietary mixing enhance the performance of a generalist insect herbivore

Oecologia

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 313-324

  Unsicker, Sybille B ^a,b   Oswald, Anett ^a   Köhler, Günter ^a   Weisser, Wolfgang W ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complementarity effect; Ontogenetic niche; Reciprocal feeding experiment; Relative forage total; Selection effect

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; COMPLEMENTARITY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIET; FECUNDITY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CONSUMPTION; GENERALIST; GRASSHOPPER; HERBIVORE; JUVENILE; ONTOGENY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SURVIVAL;

AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GERMANY; GRASSHOPPER; LIFE CYCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GERMANY; GRASSHOPPERS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; POACEAE; SEX FACTORS;

ACRIDIDAE; AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; CHORTHIPPUS PARALLELUS; HEXAPODA; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 43049127100     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-0973-6     Document Type: Article

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