Foraging by generalist grasshoppers: Two different strategies

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 155-165

  Chambers, P ^b   Sword, G ^c   Angel, J E ^d   Behmer, S ^e   Bernays, E A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING; GRASSHOPPER;

USA, (WEST);

ACRIDIDAE; ORTHOPTERA; SCHISTOCERCA NITENS; SCHISTOCERCA SHOSHONE;

EID: 0030456230     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0161     Document Type: Article

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