Plant neighborhood effects on herbivory: Damage is both density and frequency dependent

Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1431-1437

  Kim, Tania N ^a,b   Underwood, Nora ^a   Cronin, J T ^c  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Associational effects; Associational resistance; Associational susceptibility; Dilution effects; Old field; Resource concentration effects; Solanum carolinense; Solidago altissima

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CROP PLANT; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; HERBIVORY; PLANT COMMUNITY;

SOLANUM CAROLINENSE; SOLIDAGO CANADENSIS VAR. SCABRA;

ANIMAL; HERBIVORY; INSECT; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; POPULATION DENSITY; SOLANUM; SOLIDAGO;

ANIMALS; HERBIVORY; INSECTS; PLANT LEAVES; POPULATION DENSITY; SOLANUM; SOLIDAGO;

EID: 85047697852     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-1097.1     Document Type: Article

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