Bryophytes as food: Comparative consumption and utilization of mosses by a generalist insect herbivore

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 296-306

  Haines, William P ^a   Renwick, J Alan A ^a  

^a United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Bryophagy; Cabbage looper; Digestibility; Herbivory; Lepidoptera; Noctuidae; Nutrition; Plant defense; Plusiinae; Trichoplusia ni

Indexed keywords

CATERPILLAR; CHEMICAL DEFENSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; DIGESTIBILITY; FOOD CONSUMPTION; GENERALIST; HERBIVORE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MOSS; PALATABILITY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION;

BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA; BRYACEAE; BRYALES; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; BRYUM ARGENTEUM; CLIMACIACEAE; CLIMACIUM AMERICANUM; DICRANALES; HEXAPODA; HYPNALES; LACTUCA; LEPIDOPTERA; LEUCOBRYACEAE; LEUCOBRYUM GLAUCUM; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; NOCTUIDAE; PLUSIINAE; SPHAGNACEAE; SPHAGNALES; SPHAGNUM; SPHAGNUM WARNSTORFII; TRICHOPLUSIA NI; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 73149123371     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2009.00929.x     Document Type: Article

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