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cje ›› 2000, Vol. ›› Issue (3): 36-45.

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The Adaptive Strategies of Insects to Plant Alleochemicals

Zhu Lin, Gu Dexiang   

  1. National Key Laboratory of Biological Protection, Institute of Insects of Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, 510275
  • Received:1998-03-09 Revised:1998-08-20 Online:2000-06-10

Abstract: In recent decades ,one of the attentions of insect ecology have been paid to study of the plant-insect interactions,which focused on the delicate relationships of plant allelochemicals with insects.During the evolution ,kinds of perfect adaptive strategies of insects in morphology,behavior,host-specificity,physiology,biochemistry and in the use of these substances by insects etc. have been developed. These adaptations accelaerate the co-evolution of pant-insect interactions and give us some new paths to practics. In this paper,the adaptive strategies of insects to plant allelochemicals and their significance in theory and applicaion are discussed.

Key words: secondary forest, clear cutting, selective cutting, soil CH4 uptake flux, Northeast China forest area.