From plants to birds: Higher avian predation rates in trees responding to insect herbivory

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Mäntylä, Elina ^a   Alessio, Giorgio A ^b   Blande, James D ^b   Heijari, Juha ^b   Holopainen, Jarmo K ^b   Laaksonen, Toni ^a   Piirtola, Panu ^b   Klemola, Tero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 HEXEN 1 OL 2 HEXANAL; 3 HEXENYL ACETATE; 3 HEXENYL BUTYRATE; 4,8 DIMETHYL 1,3,7 NONATRIENE; BOURBONENE; CARYOPHYLLENE; CARYOPHYLLENE OXIDE; COPAENE; HUMULENE; LIMONENE; LINALOOL; MYRCENE; NONANOL; OCIMENE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PINENE; TERPENE DERIVATIVE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIRCH; CHEMICAL CUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HERBIVORE; HERBIVORY; INSECTIVORE; LARVA; NONHUMAN; PARASITOID; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PREDATION; PREDATOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FINLAND; FOOD CHAIN; INSECT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREE;

ACARI; AVES; BETULA PUBESCENS; BETULA PUBESCENS SUBSP. TORTUOSA; EPIRRITA AUTUMNATA; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FINLAND; FOOD CHAIN; INSECTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; TREES;

EID: 50949122413     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002832     Document Type: Article

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