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- Title
Intratree variation in foliage development influences the foraging strategy of a caterpillar.
- Authors
Carroll, Allan L.; Quiring, Dan T.
- Abstract
Tests the hypothesis that acropetal dispersal by late second and early third-instar Zeiraphera canadensis larvae throughout the crown of white spruce is an adaptive response to within-plant variability in foliage development. Survival; Size and development rate of survivors; Intraspecific larval competition; Effect of formica ant predation.
- Subjects
DISPERSAL of insects; ZEIRAPHERA; WHITE spruce
- Publication
Ecology, 1994, Vol 75, Issue 7, p1978
- ISSN
0012-9658
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1941602