Optimal central-place foraging by beavers: Tree-size selection in relation to defensive chemicals of quaking aspen

Oecologia

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 278-282

  Basey, John M ^a   Jenkins, Stephen H ^a   Busher, Peter E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Castor canadensis; Central place foraging; Juvenile form plants; Optimal foraging; Plant defense; Populus tremuloides

Indexed keywords

ASPEN; BEAVER; CENTRAL PLACE FORAGING; PHENOLIC COMPOUND; QUAKING ASPEN; SECONDARY COMPOUND;

CASTOR CANADENSIS; CASTOR FIBER; CASTORIDAE; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 0024180519     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: 14321939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00379963     Document Type: Article

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