Intra-tree variation in foliage quality drives the adaptive sex-biased foraging behaviors of a specialist herbivore

Oecologia

Volumn 163, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 935-947

  Johns, Rob ^a,b   Quiring, Dan ^b   Ostaff, Don ^a,b   Bauce, Éric ^c  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Haplodiploid; Heterogeneity; Phenology; Picea mariana; Pikonema alaskensis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DISPERSION; FITNESS; FLY; FOLIAGE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HERBIVORE; HETEROGENEITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; JUVENILE; LARVA; OVIPOSITION; PHENOLOGY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EGG LAYING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HYMENOPTERA; LARVA; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; SEX RATIO; SPRUCE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HYMENOPTERA; LARVA; MALE; OVIPOSITION; PICEA; PLANT LEAVES; SEX RATIO;

HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; PICEA; PICEA MARIANA; PIKONEMA ALASKENSIS; TENTHREDINIDAE;

EID: 77954466632     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1632-2     Document Type: Article

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