Environmental and genetic control of insect abundance and herbivory along a forest elevational gradient

Oecologia

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 117-129

  Garibaldi, Lucas A ^a,b   Kitzberger, Thomas ^a   Chaneton, Enrique J ^b  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Folivory; Insect guilds; Local adaptation; Nothofagus pumilio; Reciprocal transplant; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ELEVATION; GENOTYPE; INSECT; LEAF AREA; LOCAL ADAPTATION; PATH ANALYSIS; PEST DAMAGE; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHRUB;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BETULACEAE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; HERBIVORY; INSECT; PLANT LEAF;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; BETULACEAE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HERBIVORY; INSECTS; PLANT LEAVES;

ANDES; ARGENTIA; CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; PATAGONIA;

HEXAPODA; NOTHOFAGUS PUMILIO;

EID: 80051669551     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-1978-0     Document Type: Article

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