Plant-provided food for carnivorous insects : a protective mutualism and its applications / F.L. Wäckers, P.C.J. van Rijn and J. Bruin.
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / P. W. Price
- 1. Food for protection : an introduction / Felix L. Wackers and Paul C. J. van Rijn
- Pt. I. Food provision by plants
- 2. Suitability of (extra-)floral nectar, pollen, and honeydew as insect food sources / Felix L. Wackers
- 3. Nectar as fuel for plant protectors / Suzanne Koptur
- 4. Fitness consequences of food-for-protection strategies in plants / Maurice W. Sabelis, Paul C. J. van Rijn and Arne Janssen
- Pt. II. Arthropods feeding on plant-provided food
- 5. Food needs of adult parasitoids : behavioral adaptations and consequences / D. M. Olson, K. Takasu and W. J. Lewis
- 6. Effects of plant feeding on the performance of omnivorous "predators" / Mickey D. Eubanks and John D. Styrsky