Long-distance dispersal helps germinating mahogany seedlings escape defoliation by a specialist caterpillar

Oecologia

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 405-412

  Norghauer, Julian M ^a,d   Grogan, James ^b   Malcolm, Jay R ^a   Felfili, Jeanine M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Janzen Connell hypothesis; Plant insect interactions; Seedling herbivory; Swietenia macrophylla; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

CATERPILLAR; DEFOLIATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HOST SPECIFICITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MORTALITY; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING; SURVIVAL; TROPICAL FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GERMINATION; MELIACEAE; MOTH; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GERMINATION; MELIACEAE; MOTHS; PLANT LEAVES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING; SEEDS;

AMAZONIA;

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; MELIACEAE; NOCTUIDAE; SWIETENIA; SWIETENIA MACROPHYLLA;

EID: 74449087429     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-009-1476-9     Document Type: Article

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