Patterns of nutrient utilization in the needle-feeding guild

Thomas Secher Jensen

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Patterns of nutrient utilization in the needle-feeding guild

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Authors:

Thomas Secher Jensen

Year:

1991

Type:

Paper

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Baranchikov, Yuri N.; Mattson, William J.; Hain, Fred P.; Payne, Thomas L., eds. Forest Insect Guilds: Patterns of Interaction with Host Trees; 1989 August 13-17; Abakan, Siberia, U.S.S.R. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-153. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station: 134-144.

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Abstract

It is well known that large differences in performance parameters such as growth rate, survival rate, or fecundity rate are found between various insect guilds, e.g. root feeders and sapsuckers (Slansky and Rodriguez 1987, Slansky and Scriber 1985). Within guilds and even within a given host plant, the variability of the plant material may also result in considerable differences in the performance parameters of insect larvae feeding on the plant (Whitham 1983, Jensen 1988).

Parent Publication

Forest Insect Guilds: Patterns of Interaction with Host Trees

Citation

Jensen, Thomas Secher. 1991. Patterns of nutrient utilization in the needle-feeding guild. In: Baranchikov, Yuri N.; Mattson, William J.; Hain, Fred P.; Payne, Thomas L., eds. Forest Insect Guilds: Patterns of Interaction with Host Trees; 1989 August 13-17; Abakan, Siberia, U.S.S.R. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-153. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station: 134-144.