Attraction of willow warblers to sawfly-damaged mountain birches: Novel function of inducible plant defences?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 915-918

  Mäntylä, Elina ^a   Klemola, Tero ^a   Haukioja, Erkki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Betula; Chemical signalling; Defoliation; Indirect plant defences; Insect herbivores; Mutualism; Olfaction; Phylloscopus; Sawflies; Tritrophic interactions; UV vision

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DEFENSE; INDUCED RESPONSE; MUTUALISM; OLFACTION; PASSERINE; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BETULA; BETULA PUBESCENS SUBSP. TORTUOSA; GALLIFORMES; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLLOSCOPUS; SALIX; SYMPHYTA;

EID: 5344233475     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00653.x     Document Type: Article

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