Responses of insect herbivores to sharing a host plant with a hemiparasite: Impacts on preference and performance differ with feeding guild

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 596-604

  Ewald, Naomi C ^a   John, Elizabeth A ^a,b   Hartley, Susan E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aphid; Grass; Grasshopper; Hemiparasite; Indirect; Performance; Preference; Spittle bug

Indexed keywords

APHID; BIOMASS; DICOTYLEDON; GRASS; GRASSHOPPER; GUILD; HEMIPARASITE; HERBIVORE; HOST PLANT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHLOEM; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; PREDICTION; WATER CONTENT; XYLEM;

ACRIDIDAE; APHIDIDAE; CHORTHIPPUS BRUNNEUS; HEXAPODA; HOLCUS; HOLCUS LANATUS; INVERTEBRATA; OROBANCHACEAE; ORTHOPTERA; POACEAE; RHINANTHUS MINOR;

EID: 80052835296     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2011.01304.x     Document Type: Article

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