Suitability of stressed and vigorous plants to various insect herbivores
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Research on insect-plant relationships supports the plant vigor hypothesis, rather than the plant stress hypothesis. The vigor hypothesis predicts a positive correlation between plant growth and insect performance, while the stress hypothesis predicts a positive correlation between decreased plant defenses and insect performance.
Publication Name: Oikos
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0030-1299
Year: 2001
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When do herbivores affect plant invasion? Evidence for the natural enemies and biotic resistance hypothesis
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Research on the herbivore/plant dynamics relationship is inconclusive on whether herbivore foraging activity is directly linked to species invasion resistance. More studies are needed to quantify the numerical and functional response of herbivores to exotic plants.
Publication Name: Oikos
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0030-1299
Year: 2001
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Plant diversity and insect herbivores: effects of environmental change in contrasting model systems.
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The extent of influence of environmental change on the plant species richness and its impact on the species richness of insect herbivores is discussed. The response of two plant communities to environmental change is examined.
Publication Name: Oikos
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0030-1299
Year: 2003
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- Abstracts: The role of age-structure on the persistence and the dynamics of insect herbivore - parasitoid interactions. Compensation behaviour by insect herbivores and natural enemies: its influence on community structure
- Abstracts: The partitioning of density-dependent dispersal, growth and survival throughout ontogeny in a highly fecund organism