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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Main Authors: Apostolos-Manuel Koussoroplis, Toni Klauschies, Sylvain Pincebourde, David Giron, Alexander Wacker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2019-05-01
Series:Rethinking Ecology
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Online Access:https://rethinkingecology.pensoft.net/article/32252/download/pdf/