Fitness consequences of host plant choice: A field experiment

Oikos

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 542-550

  Diamond, Sarah E ^a   Kingsolver, Joel G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; ENEMY FREE SPACE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELDWORK; FITNESS; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORY; HOST PLANT; HOST PREFERENCE; HOST QUALITY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MICROHABITAT; MOTH; NATURAL ENEMY; OVIPOSITION; PARASITISM; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURVIVAL; TOBACCO; WASP;

COTESIA CONGREGATA; HARPAGOPHYTUM; MANDUCA SEXTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PROBOSCIDEA LOUISIANICA;

EID: 78650471494     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.17242.x     Document Type: Article

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