Indirect plant-mediated interactions among parasitoid larvae

Ecology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 670-676

  Poelman, Erik H ^a   Gols, Rieta ^a   Snoeren, Tjeerd A L ^a   Muru, David ^a   Smid, Hans M ^a   Dicke, Marcel ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competition; Cotesia; Induced plant response; Parasitoid performance; Pieris rapae

Indexed keywords

COTESIA; PIERIS RAPAE;

EID: 84931749033     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01629.x     Document Type: Article

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