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    Flower vs. Leaf Feeding by Pieris brassicae: Glucosinolate-Rich Flower Tissues are Preferred and Sustain Higher Growth Rate

    Interactions between butterflies and caterpillars in the genus Pieris and plants in the family Brassicaceae are among the best explored in the field of insect–plant biology. However, we report here for the first ...

    R. C. Smallegange, J. J. A. van Loon, S. E. Blatt in Journal of Chemical Ecology (2007)

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    Secondary Succession in Two South-eastern Ontario Old-fields

    Secondary succession was documented throughout a long-term study of two abandoned hay fields in south-eastern Ontario. In one field (Field 1), eighteen plots (measuring 100 m2) were established. Nine of these plo...

    S. E. Blatt, A. Crowder, R. Harmsen in Plant Ecology (2005)

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    Quantifying secondary succession: a method for all sites?

    Quantifying and documenting succession has been a challenge to ecologists for many years. A variety of measures have been generated but do not seem to have been widely adopted. We propose the use of an intuiti...

    S. E. Blatt, J. A. Janmaat, R. Harmsen in Community Ecology (2003)

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    Alarm Pheromone System of the Western Conifer Seed Bug, Leptoglossus occidentalis

    The alarm pheromones for adult and nymphal western conifer seed bugs, Leptoglossus occidentalis, were collected from the headspace volatiles of agitated bugs and from extracted adult thoraxes and nymphal abdomens...

    S.E. Blatt, J.H. Borden, H.D. Pierce Jr., R. Gries, G. Gries in Journal of Chemical Ecology (1998)