Insect density-plant density relationships: A modified view of insect responses to resource concentrations

Oecologia

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1333-1344

  Andersson, Petter ^a   Löfstedt, Christer ^b   Hambäck, Peter A ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Electroantennogram; Habitat heterogeneity; Immigration; Scale dependencies; Species traits

Indexed keywords

APHID; BEETLE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; EMIGRATION; FLY; HERBIVORE; HETEROGENEITY; HOST PLANT; IMMIGRATION; MOTH; NUMERICAL MODEL; OLFACTION; PARAMETERIZATION; RANGE SIZE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCALE EFFECT; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ANIMALIA; APHIDIDAE; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORY; INSECT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POPULATION DENSITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CUES; ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORY; INSECTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ODORS; PLANTS; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 84888360959     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-013-2737-1     Document Type: Article

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