Plant defenses as complementary resources: A test with squirrels

Oikos

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 130-142

  Schmidt, Kenneth A ^a,b   Brown, Joel S ^a   Morgan, Robert A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING DETERRENT; FOOD PATCH; FOX SQUIRREL; GREY SQUIRREL; NUTRITION; PLANT DEFENCE; RESOURCE UTILIZATION;

SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS; SCIURUS NIGER;

EID: 0031889246     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546475     Document Type: Article

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