Lifetime consequences of food protein-carbohydrate content for an insect herbivore

Functional Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1135-1143

  Roeder, Karl A ^a,b   Behmer, Spencer T ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Foraging behaviour; Nutritional ecology; Nutritional physiology; Physiological ecology; Plant herbivore interactions

Indexed keywords

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EID: 84908279914     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12262     Document Type: Article

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