Ecological costs on local adaptation of an insect herbivore imposed by host plants and enemies

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1388-1398

  Zovi, Daniel ^a   Stastny, Michael ^b   Battisti, Andrea ^a   Larsson, Stig ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Baryscapus servadeii; Egg parasitoids; Local adaptation; Ooencyrtus pityocampae; Pine processionary moth; Pinus spp; Plasticity; Progeny size; Reciprocal transfer experiment; Thaumetopoea pityocampa; Trade off

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS TREE; EGG PARASITOID; HERBIVORE; HOST PLANT; MOTH; PLANT DEFENSE;

BARYSCAPUS SERVADEII; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; OOENCYRTUS PITYOCAMPAE; PINUS NIGRA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; THAUMETOPOEA PITYOCAMPA;

ADAPTATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LARVA; MOTH; OOCYTE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; PLANT LEAF; WASP;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LARVA; MOTHS; OVUM; PINUS; PLANT LEAVES; WASPS;

EID: 46749089629     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0883.1     Document Type: Article

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