Water availability alters the tri-trophic consequences of a plant-fungal symbiosis

Arthropod-Plant Interactions

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-27

  Yule, Kelsey M ^a   Woolley, James B ^b   Rudgers, Jennifer A ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Defensive mutualism; Fungal endophyte; Herbivory; Indirect interaction; Neotyphodium

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ABUNDANCE; APHID; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENDOPHYTE; FUNGUS; HERBIVORY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MUTUALISM; PLANT; SYMBIOSIS; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION; WATER AVAILABILITY;

APHELINUS; APHIDIDAE; ARTHROPODA; AVES; HEXAPODA; NEOTYPHODIUM; POA; POA AUTUMNALIS; RHOPALOSIPHUM PADI;

EID: 79451470872     PISSN: 18728855     EISSN: 18728847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11829-010-9112-5     Document Type: Article

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