Parasitoid load affects plant fitness in a tritrophic system
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Parasitoid load affects plant fitness in a tritrophic system
Plants attacked by herbivorous insects emit volatile compounds that attract predators or parasitoids of the herbivores. Plant fitness increases when these herbivorous insects are parasitized by solitary parasitoids, but whether gregarious koinobiont parasitoids also confer a benefit to plant fitness has been disputed. We investigated the relationship between parasitoid load of the gregarious Co...
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عنوان ژورنال: Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0013-8703,1570-7458
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2008.00693.x