Preference-performance relationships and effects of host plant choice in an herbivorous marine amphipod

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 443-464

  Poore, Alistair G B ^a   Steinberg, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amphipods; Food choice; Habitat preference; Herbivory; Macroalgae; Mesograzers; Nutritional value; Peramphithoe parmerong; Performance; Plant herbivore interactions; Sargassum; Secondary metabolites

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; HOST PREFERENCE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION;

ALGAE; AMPHIPODA; ANIMALIA; COLPOMENIA PEREGRINA; DICTYOPTERIS ACROSTICHOIDES; DICTYOTA DICHOTOMA; DILOPHUS MARGINATA; MALACOSTRACA; PADINA CRASSA; PERAMPHITHOE; PERAMPHITHOE PARMERONG; PEREGRINA; PHAEOPHYCEAE; SARGASSUM; SARGASSUM LINEARIFOLIUM; SARGASSUM VESTITUM; ZONARIA DIESINGIANA;

EID: 0032750547     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(1999)069[0443:PPRAEO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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