Herbivore foraging in chemically heterogeneous environments: Nutrients and secondary metabolites

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2489-2501

  Behmer, Spencer T ^a   Simpson, Stephen J ^a   Raubenheimer, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

African migratory locust; Chemical heterogeneity; Feeding deterrent; Foraging; Herbivores; Locusta migratoria; Nutrition; Plant secondary metabolites; Protein: carbon ratio; State space models; Tannic acid

Indexed keywords

FEEDING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HERBIVORE; LOCUST; METABOLITE; NUTRITION; PROTEIN;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; LOCUSTA; LOCUSTA MIGRATORIA; LOCUSTA MIGRATORIA MIGRATORIOIDES; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 0038138029     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[2489:HFICHE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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