Four-level interactions: Herbivore use of ferns and subsequent parasitoid-hyperparasitoid performance

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 246-253

  Morse, Douglass H ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alabagrus; Aprostocetus; Braconid wasp; Crambid moth; Eulophid wasp; Fitness; Herpetogramma; Indirect effects

Indexed keywords

FERN; FITNESS; HERBIVORE; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LARVA; MOTH; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SUPERPARASITISM; TROPHIC LEVEL; WASP;

MAINE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ALABAGRUS; APROSTOCETUS; BRACONIDAE; CRAMBIDAE; DRYOPTERIDACEAE; EULOPHIDAE; FILICOPHYTA; HERPETOGRAMMA; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; ONOCLEA; ONOCLEA SENSIBILIS; THELYPTERIDACEAE; THELYPTERIS; THELYPTERIS PALUSTRIS;

EID: 60849107618     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2008.01073.x     Document Type: Article

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