The Absolute Abundance of Leaf Miners on Plants of Different Successional Stages
- 1 August 1985
- Vol. 45 (1) , 17-25
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3565217
Abstract
Recent ecological theories predict higher typical abundances of herbivores on early, in comparison with late, successional plants, and within the same species, on seedling in comparison with mature plants. The abundances of leaf-mining insects on different types of plants were measured in comparable units to test the hypothesis. The relative abundances of leaf miners were found to vary as predicted by theory.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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