Plant architecture and vegetation structure: Two ways for insect herbivores to escape parasitism

European Journal of Entomology

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 233-240

  Obermaier, Elisabeth ^a,c   Heisswolf, Annette ^a   Poethke, Joachim ^a   Randlkofer, Barbara ^b   Meiners, Torsten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Chrysomelidae; Enemy free space; Environmental heterogeneity; Galeruca tanaceti; Oomyzus galerucivorus; Oviposition site; Parasitism; Plant architecture; Structural complexity; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HERBIVORE; MICROHABITAT; OVIPOSITION; PARASITISM; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; EULOPHIDAE; GALERUCA TANACETI; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; OOMYZUS GALERUCIVORUS; TANACETUM VULGARE;

EID: 55249111566     PISSN: 12105759     EISSN: 18028829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14411/eje.2008.033     Document Type: Article

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