Design and analysis of multiple-choice feeding-preference experiments

Oecologia

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 509-515

  Roa, Rubén ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE FOMENTO PESQUERO   (Chile)

Author keywords

Experimental design; Food preference; Habitat selection; Multivariate analysis; Sea urchins

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL METHODOLOGY; FEEDING PREFERENCE; MACROALGAE; MULTIPLE-CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; SEA URCHIN; STATISTICAL PROCEDURE;

ALGAE; ECHINOIDEA; GYMNOGONGRUS; GYMNOGONGRUS FURCELLATUS; MACROCYSTIS; MACROCYSTIS PYRIFERA; TETRAPYGUS NIGER; ULVA;

EID: 0027079272     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: 14321939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00317157     Document Type: Article

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