A comment on “Variability in plant nutrients reduces insect herbivore performance”
In their recent contribution, Wetzel et al. [Wetzel et al. (2016) Variability in plant nutrients reduces insect herbivore performance. Nature 539: 425-427] predict that variance in the plant nutrient level reduces herbivore performance via the nonlinear averaging effect (named Jens...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Pensoft Publishers
2019-05-01
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Series: | Rethinking Ecology |
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Online Access: | https://rethinkingecology.pensoft.net/article/32252/download/pdf/ |