Not just the usual suspects: Insect herbivore populations and communities are associated with multiple plant nutrients

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1002-1015

  Joern, Anthony ^a   Provin, Tony ^b   Behmer, Spencer T ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrididae; Grasshoppers; Insect herbivory; Mixed grass prairie; Nebraska sandhills grassland (USA); Nutritional ecology; Orthoptera; Physiological ecology

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOPHYSIOLOGY; GRASS; GRASSHOPPER; GRASSLAND; GUILD; HERBIVORY; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIALIST;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; GRASSHOPPER; HERBIVORY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; GRASSHOPPERS; HERBIVORY; PLANT LEAVES; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

NEBRASKA; UNITED STATES;

ACRIDIDAE; HEXAPODA; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 84861411867     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1142.1     Document Type: Article

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