A recently acquired host plant provides an oligophagous insect herbivore with enemy-free space

Oikos

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 231-238

  Mulatu, Bayeh ^a,b   Applebaum, Shalom W ^a   Coll, Moshe ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b ETHIOPIAN INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HERBIVORE; HOST USE; NATURAL ENEMY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; REFUGE;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 5144221262     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2004.13157.x     Document Type: Article

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