Impacts of insect herbivory on cactus population dynamics: Experimental demography across an environmental gradient

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 155-172

  Miller, Tom E X ^a,c   Louda, Svata M ^a   Rose, Karen A ^b   Eckberg, James O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cactus feeding insects; Cahela ponderosella; Chihuahuan Desert; Elevation gradient; Herbivory; Integral projection model; New Mexico; Opuntia imbricata; Plant Insect interactions; Population dynamics; USA

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CACTUS; ELEVATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FECUNDITY; GRASSLAND; HERBIVORY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GROWTH; SEED PRODUCTION; TRANSITION ZONE;

NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CACTACEAE; HEXAPODA; OPUNTIA; OPUNTIA IMBRICATA;

EID: 65349172385     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-1550.1     Document Type: Article

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