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Keywords: soil fertility, nitrogen-influenced growth and reproduction, the total quantity of nitrogen, nitrogen content of various organs and tissues in a range of woodland plant species, the quantity of available nitrogen, amino-acids correlated with performance in Brevicoryne brassicae and Myzus persicae, Nilaparvata lugens, Nephotettix virescens, fecundity, adaptation to low and changing host-plant nitrogen levels, variable feeding rates and digestive efficiencies, energetic digestive efficiency in relation to total nitrogen levels in food for Leptopterna dolabrata, assimilation efficiency and nitrogen rates of gain for two species of leafhoppers, varying feeding sites on the same host, movements to

different plants, food-plant chain of Euryderma oleraceum, modification in the physiology of the plant, nitrogen from other sources, phenological adaptations, nitrogen content of plant and animal materials associated with Sirex larvae, the structure of the insect herbivore community on Holcus mollis in relation to total leaf nitrogen, nitrogen in plant defense strategies