Plant defence: Feeding your bodyguards can be counter-productive

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 629-633

  Stenberg, Johan A ^a   Lehrman, Anna ^a   Björkman, Christer ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biocontrol; Indirect defence; Omnivory; Plant defence; Predator switching; Top down control; Trophic cascade

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCORIS; ANTHOCORIS MEMORUM; HEXAPODA; PHRATORA VULGATISSIMA; PILOPHORUS WALSHII; SALIX;

EID: 81555204425     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2011.08.007     Document Type: Article

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