Density-dependent effects of an early season insect herbivore on a later developing insect herbivore

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 346-350

  Branson, David H ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Grasshoppers; Herbivory; Orthoptera; Phenology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DENSITY DEPENDENCE; EGG; GRASSHOPPER; HATCHING; HERBIVORY; OVERWINTERING; PHENOLOGY; PHYTOMASS; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION OUTBREAK; PRAIRIE; SPRING (SEASON); SUMMER; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; GRASSHOPPER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NYMPH; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; GRASSHOPPERS; MONTANA; NYMPH; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY;

AGENEOTETTIX DEORUM; HEXAPODA; ORTHOPTERA; SCHISTOCERCA AMERICANA;

EID: 77952721666     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN08319     Document Type: Article

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