Testing the plant stress hypothesis: Stressed plants offer better food to an insect herbivore

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 148-158

  Bauerfeind, Stephanie S ^a   Fischer, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diet; Food consumption; Food quality; Growth efficiency; Growth rate; Lepidoptera; Pieridae; Pieris napi; Stress resistance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BUTTERFLY; FEEDING; FOOD; FOOD QUALITY; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORE; LOW TEMPERATURE; PLANT; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; STARVATION; STRESS; TRADE-OFF; WATER AVAILABILITY;

EID: 84885111855     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eea.12118     Document Type: Article

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