Enemy-free space and the host range of a lichenivorous moth: A field experiment

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 564-569

  Pöykkö, Heikki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; ENEMY FREE SPACE; FECUNDITY; FIELDWORK; GROWTH RATE; HOST RANGE; LARVA; LICHEN; MORTALITY; MOTH; NATURAL ENEMY; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SPECIALIZATION; SURVIVAL;

LEPIDOPTERA; PARMELIA SULCATA; RAMALINA;

EID: 79953004059     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18882.x     Document Type: Article

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