A specialist root herbivore reduces plant resistance and uses an induced plant volatile to aggregate in a density-dependent manner

Functional Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1429-1440

  Robert, Christelle A M ^a,b   Erb, Matthias ^b   Hibbard, Bruce E ^c   Wade French, B ^d   Zwahlen, Claudia ^a   Turlings, Ted C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d NORTH CENTRAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Defence inducibility relaxation; Diabrotica virgifera virgifera; Induced susceptibility; Resource reallocation; Root herbivore interactions; Zea mays

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; MAIZE; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; ROOT COMPETITION; SPECIALIST; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

DIABROTICA VIRGIFERA VIRGIFERA; HEXAPODA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84869876100     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.02030.x     Document Type: Article

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