Resource concentration hypothesis: effec
Resource concentration hypothesis: effect of host plant patch size on density of herbivorous insects
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A. A. Grez; R. H. González
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Article
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1995
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Springer-Verlag
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English
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The resource concentration hypothesis (Root 1973) predicts that specialist herbivorous insects should be more abundant in large patches of host plants, because the insects are more likely to find and stay longer in those patches. Between August 1989 and January 1990 we experimentally tested Root's h