Diversity and beyond: Plant functional identity determines herbivore performance

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1047-1055

  Specht, Juliane ^a   Scherber, Christoph ^a,b   Unsicker, Sybille B ^a   Köhler, Günter ^a,c   Weisser, Wolfgang W ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dietary mixing; Generalist herbivore; Grasshopper; Plant diversity; Plant functional identity; The Jena Experiment

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GENERALIST; GRASSHOPPER; HERBIVORY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; POPULATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; CLASSIFICATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GRASSHOPPER; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GRASSHOPPERS; MALE; PLANTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

CHORTHIPPUS PARALLELUS; GOMPHOCERINAE; HEXAPODA; ORTHOPTERA; POACEAE;

EID: 49649124066     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01395.x     Document Type: Article

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