Reducing ambiguity in describing plant-insect interactions: 'Preference', 'acceptability' and 'electivity'

Ecology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 159-162

  Singer, Michael C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

Acceptability; Electivity; Insect; Plant; Preference

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0034127912     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2000.00136.x     Document Type: Article

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