Measuring tolerance to herbivory: Accuracy and precision of estimates made using natural versus imposed damage

Evolution

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1024-1029

  Tiffin, Peter ^a,b   Inouye, Brian D ^a,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial damage; Herbivory; Measurement error; Natural damage; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HERBIVORY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; TOLERANCE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033927307     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2000.tb00101.x     Document Type: Article

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