Comparative nutritional ecology of grass-feeding in a sub-Antarctic beetle: The impact of introduced species on Hydromedion sparsutum from South Georgia

Oecologia

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 216-224

  Chown, S L ^a   Block, W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body size; Grass foliage feeding; Indirect effects; Perimylopidae; Reindeer

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; GRASS; INTRODUCED BEETLE; INTRODUCED MAMMAL; NUTRITION; REINDEER;

ANTARCTICA, SOUTH GEORGIA, STROMNESS BAY;

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; FESTUCA CONTRACTA; HYDROMEDION SPARSUTUM; PARODIOCHLOA FLABELLATA; PERIMYLOPIDAE; PHLEUM ALPINUM; POA ANNUA; POACEAE; RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 0030763085     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050228     Document Type: Article

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