Prey nutritional quality interacts with chemical defenses to affect consumer feeding and fitness

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 483-506

  Cruz Rivera, Edwin ^a,c   Hay, Mark E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphipods; Ampithoe; Chemical defenses and consumer food choice; Compensatory feeding; Cymadusa; Dictyota; Elasmopus; Gammarus; Isopods; Nutritional interactions with chemical defenses; Paracerceis; Prey defense and value affect consumer fitness

Indexed keywords

BROWN ALGA; CHEMICAL DEFENSE; CRUSTACEAN; FITNESS; FOOD PREFERENCE; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION;

ALGAE; AMPHIPODA; AMPITHOE; AMPITHOE LONGIMANA; AMPITHOE VALIDA; CAUDATA; CHLOROPHYTA; CRUSTACEA; CYMADUSA; CYMADUSA COMPTA; DICTYOTA; DICTYOTA MENSTRUALIS; ELASMOPUS; ELASMOPUS LEVIS; ENTEROMORPHA INTESTINALIS; GAMMARUS; GAMMARUS MUCRONATUS; HALOPHILA; ISOPODA; PARACERCEIS; PARACERCEIS CAUDATA; PHAEOPHYCEAE; ULVA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 0042178344     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(2003)073[0483:PNQIWC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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