Indirect interactions mediated by changing plant chemistry: Beaver browsing benefits beetles

Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 192-200

  Martinsen, Gregory D ^a   Driebe, Elizabeth M ^a   Whitham, Thomas G ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beavers; Cottonwoods; Defensive chemistry; Indirect interactions; Leaf beetles; Phenolic glycosides; Sequestration

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; HERBIVORY; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; RESPROUTING;

ARTHROPODA; AVES; CASTOR CANADENSIS; CASTOR FIBER; CASTORIDAE; CHRYSOMELA CONFLUENS; CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; CONFLUENS; MAMMALIA; POPULUS; POPULUS ANGUSTIFOLIA; POPULUS FREMONTII;

EID: 0031715338     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[0192:IIMBCP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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