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Bottom-Up and Top-Down Effects Influence Bruchid Beetle Individual Performance but Not Population Densities in the Field

Plant quality (bottom-up) and natural enemies (top-down) can influence the individual performance of herbivorous insects on their host plants, but few studies measured at the same time the influence on population densities in the field. We investigated if plant quality of different wild common bean...

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Autores principales: Zaugg, Isabelle, Benrey, Betty, Bacher, Sven
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3558490/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23383151
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055317