How generalist herbivores exploit belowground plant diversity in temperate grasslands

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 3826-3837

  Wallinger, Corinna ^a   Staudacher, Karin ^a   Schallhart, Nikolaus ^a   Mitterrutzner, Evi ^a   Steiner, Eva Maria ^a   Juen, Anita ^a   Traugott, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Agriotes obscurus; Agriotes sputator; root feeding; soil herbivory; trophic interaction

Indexed keywords

AGRIOTES; AGRIOTES OBSCURUS; APIACEAE; ASTERACEAE; COLEOPTERA; ELATERIDAE; HEXAPODA; PLANTAGINACEAE; POACEAE;

DNA;

AGRIOTES OBSCURUS; AGRIOTES SPUTATOR; ANIMAL; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIET; DNA SEQUENCE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; HERBIVORY; LARVA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; POACEAE; ROOT FEEDING; SEASON; SOIL HERBIVORY; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

AGRIOTES OBSCURUS; AGRIOTES SPUTATOR; ROOT FEEDING; SOIL HERBIVORY; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BIODIVERSITY; DIET; DNA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; HERBIVORY; LARVA; PLANT ROOTS; POACEAE; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84904676555     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12579     Document Type: Conference Paper

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