Species-specific defence responses facilitate conspecifics and inhibit heterospecifics in above-belowground herbivore interactions

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Huang, Wei ^a   Siemann, Evan ^b   Xiao, Li ^a,c   Yang, Xuefang ^a,c   Ding, Jianqing ^a  

^a Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHENOL DERIVATIVE; TANNIN DERIVATIVE; PHENOL;

BEETLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONSPECIFIC; DICOTYLEDON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FACILITATION; HERBIVORE; LARVA; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SPECIALIST; TANNIN;

ADULT; APHID; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIKASHA COLLARIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMIPTERA; HERBIVORY; LARVA; LEAF DAMAGE; LEPIDOPTERA; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PLANT ROOT; SHOOT; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; TREE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; EUPHORBIACEAE; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEETLES; CHINA; EUPHORBIACEAE; HERBIVORY; LARVA; PHENOL; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TANNINS;

EID: 84923294970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5851     Document Type: Article

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