Host plant quality and defence against parasitoids: No relationship between levels of parasitism and a geometrid defoliator immunoassay

Oikos

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 926-934

  Klemola, Netta ^a   Kapari, Lauri ^a   Klemola, Tero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECIDUOUS TREE; ENCAPSULATION; FOOD QUALITY; HOST PLANT; HOST QUALITY; IMMUNOASSAY; MOTH; PARASITISM; PARASITOID; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; TROPHIC LEVEL;

BETULA PUBESCENS; BETULA PUBESCENS SUBSP. TORTUOSA; EPIRRITA AUTUMNATA; GEOMETRIDAE; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 45749131744     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16611.x     Document Type: Article

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