Nursery conditions affect seedling chemistry, morphology and herbivore preferences for Eucalyptus nitens

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 176, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 585-594

  McArthur, Clare ^a   Marsh, Nadia R ^b   Close, Dugald C ^a   Walsh, Andrew ^b   Paterson, Stephen ^a   Fitzgerald, Hugh ^a   Davies, Noel W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b FORESTRY TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Browsing damage; Gallotannin; Mammalian herbivore; Preference; Sideroxylonal

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MORPHOLOGY; NITROGEN;

HERBIVORE;

FORESTRY;

FOOD PREFERENCE; HERBIVORY; MORPHOLOGY; PEST DAMAGE; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PROPAGATION (HORTICULTURE); SEEDLING; SILVICULTURE;

ALOPIAS; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS NITENS; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; PHALANGERIDAE; THYLOGALE; THYLOGALE BILLARDIERII; TRICHOSURUS; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA;

EID: 0242516014     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(02)00315-8     Document Type: Article

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