caa a22 4500 469096837 CHVBK 20180323133033.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00317421 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00317421 The performance of the leaf mining microlepidopteran Bucculatrix maritima (Stt.) on the salt marsh halophyte, Aster tripolium (L.), exposed to different salinity conditions [Elektronische Daten] [M. Hemminga, J. van Soelen] Summary: The performance of phytophagous insects is influenced by the nutritional quality of the food plant, which may vary with environmental conditions. Hardly any information exists on food-plant mediated effects of variable soil salinity on the performance of phytophagous insects. Conspicuous differences in salinity levels, however, are found in soils of intertidal wetlands such as salt marshes and mangroves. The growth of larvae of Bucculatrix maritima, a leaf miner of the salt marsh halophyte Aster tripolium, was studied on the host plant along the salinity gradient of the Westerschelde estuary (S.W. Netherlands). In addition, its performance on A. tripolium grown on low or high salinity culture medium was investigated experimentally. Although salinity conditions significantly influenced the chemistry of the host plants, insect performance seemed almost unaffected, although near the mouth of the estuary high environmental salinities may have caused some inhibition of larval growth. The results contrast with our previous studies on the stem-borer Agapanthia villosoviridescens, which showed that growth and development was conspicuously influenced by the changing characteristics of Aster tripolium along the estuarine salinity gradient. The location-dependent qualities of halophytes in an estuary thus appear to have species-specific effects on insect performance. We hypothesize that this phenomenon contributes to the existence of non-identical distribution patterns of phytophagous insects associated with the same halophyte in an estuary. Springer-Verlag, 1992 Phytophagous insects nationallicence Salt marsh nationallicence Bucculatrix maritima nationallicence Aster tripolium nationallicence Estuary nationallicence Hemminga M. Delta Institute for Hydrobiological Research, Vierstraat 28, 4401 EA, Yerseke, The Netherlands aut van Soelen J. Delta Institute for Hydrobiological Research, Vierstraat 28, 4401 EA, Yerseke, The Netherlands aut Oecologia Springer-Verlag 89/3(1992-03-01), 422-427 0029-8549 89:3<422 1992 89 442 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00317421 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00317421 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hemminga M. Delta Institute for Hydrobiological Research, Vierstraat 28, 4401 EA, Yerseke, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- van Soelen J. Delta Institute for Hydrobiological Research, Vierstraat 28, 4401 EA, Yerseke, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Oecologia Springer-Verlag 89/3(1992-03-01), 422-427 0029-8549 89:3<422 1992 89 442 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer