Plant defense against leaf herbivory based on metal accumulation: examples from a tropical high altitude ecosystem

Plant Species Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 147-155

  Ribeiro, Sérvio P ^a   Londe, Vinícius ^a   Bueno, Amauri P ^a   Barbosa, Juliana S ^a   Corrêa, Tatiana L ^a   Soeltl, Tatiana ^a   Maia, Márcia ^a   Pinto, Victor D ^a   de França Dueli, Grazieli ^b   de Sousa, Hildeberto Caldas ^a   Kozovits, Alessandra R ^a   Nalini, Hermínio A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

elemental defense; Ferriferous Quadrangle; insect plant interactions; rupestrian fields; ultramafic soils

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017143374     PISSN: 0913557X     EISSN: 14421984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1442-1984.12136     Document Type: Article

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