Responding to a three-pronged attack: Desert lilies subject to herbivory by dorcas gazelles

Plant Ecology

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 127-138

  Saltz, David ^a   Ward, David ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Desert; Gazelles; Growth strategies; Herbivory; Israel; Lilies; Plant defenses

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYTE; HERBIVORY; PHENOLOGY; PLANT DEFENSE;

ISRAEL;

GAZELLA DORCAS; PANCRATIUM SICKENBERGERI;

EID: 0033910953     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009895512145     Document Type: Article

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