Host-plant quality adaptively affects the diapause threshold: Evidence from leaf beetles in willow plantations

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 490-499

  Dalin, Peter ^a   Nylin, Sören ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Critical day length; Diapause; Host plant quality; Seasonal adaptations; Voltinism

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEETLE; CROP ROTATION; DECIDUOUS TREE; DIAPAUSE; GROWING SEASON; HERBIVORE; HOST PLANT; LIFE CYCLE; PLANTATION; VOLTINISM;

SWEDEN;

CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; PHRATORA VULGATISSIMA; SALIX;

EID: 84870328555     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2012.01387.x     Document Type: Article

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