Resource Abundance and Insect Herbivore Diversity on Woody Fabaceous Desert Plants
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- 1 August 2000
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Environmental Entomology
- Vol. 29 (4) , 696-703
Abstract
This study addresses four hypotheses that may account for differences in the number of insect herbivore species among plant species. These hypothesesKeywords
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