Phytochemical diversity drives plant-insect community diversity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 35, 2015, Pages 10973-10978

  Richards, Lora A ^a   Dyer, Lee A ^a   Forister, Matthew L ^a   Smilanich, Angela M ^a   Dodson, Craig D ^a   Leonard, Michael D ^a   Jeffrey, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet breadth; Diversity; Herbivore; Plant defense; Tritrophic

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; HERBIVORE; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PIPER (PLANT); PLANT COMMUNITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; INSECT; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SYMBIOSIS;

PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; INSECTS; PHYTOCHEMICALS; PLANTS; PROTON MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84941578380     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1504977112     Document Type: Article

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