Variability in plant nutrients reduces insect herbivore performance

Nature

Volumn 539, Issue 7629, 2016, Pages 425-427

  Wetzel, William C ^a,b   Kharouba, Heather M ^b,c   Robinson, Moria ^b   Holyoak, Marcel ^b   Karban, Richard ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; DATA SET; GENETIC VARIATION; HERBIVORE; HOST PLANT; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PEST CONTROL; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SUSTAINABILITY;

AGROECOSYSTEM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRAIT; HERBIVORE; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PEST INSECT; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PLANT NUTRIENT; PLANT PEST; PLANT PEST INTERACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; VARIANCE; ANIMAL; FOOD CHAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HERBIVORY; INSECT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT;

HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; FOOD CHAIN; HERBIVORY; INSECTS; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84995977094     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature20140     Document Type: Article

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