The predictability of phytophagous insect communities: Host specialists as habitat specialists

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Müller, Jörg ^a,b   Stadler, Jutta ^c   Jarzabek Müller, Andrea ^a   Hacker, Hermann ^d   ter Braak, Cajo ^e   Brandl, Roland ^f  

^a BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^d ZOOLOGISCHE STAATSSAMMLUNG MÜNCHEN   (Germany)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT; HOST; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; INSECT; MACROLEPIDOPTERA; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPHAGOUS INSECT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; SPECIES COMPOSITION; VEGETATION;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; INSECTS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PLANTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; MACROLEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 80053929139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025986     Document Type: Article

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