Examining the hierarchy threshold model in a no-choice feeding assay

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 89-95

  Withers, Toni M ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^b SCION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Chrysomelidae; Deprivation; Discrimination; Feeding behaviour; Hierarchy threshold model

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCE; HOST QUALITY;

ANIMALIA; CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PARTHENIUM; PARTHENIUM HYSTEROPHORUS; XANTHIUM; XANTHIUM OCCIDENTALE; XANTHIUM STRUMARIUM GLABRATUM; ZYGOGRAMMA; ZYGOGRAMMA BICOLORATA;

EID: 0032885254     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.1999.00469.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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