Global patterns in background losses of woody plant foliage to insects

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1126-1135

  Kozlov, Mikhail V ^a   Lanta, Vojtěch ^a,b   Zverev, Vitali ^a   Zvereva, Elena L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Background herbivory; Climate; Defoliators; Gallers; Geographic pattern; Latitudinal variation; Miners; Research bias

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; FOLIAGE; HERBIVORY; INSECT; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; RESEARCH WORK; WOODY PLANT;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84940891965     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12347     Document Type: Article

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