Kangaroos avoid eating seedlings with or near others with volatile essential oils

Journal of Chemical Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2621-2635

  Jones, Anthea S ^a   Lamont, Byron B ^a   Fairbanks, Meredith M ^a   Rafferty, Christine M ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Essential oils; Myrtaceae; Nurse plants; Seedling herbivory; Western grey kangaroo

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL OIL;

ESSENTIAL OIL; HERBIVORY; MARSUPIAL; SEEDLING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HERBIVORY; KANGAROO; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MYRTACEAE; NONHUMAN; PLANT HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PLANT SEED;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MACROPODIDAE; MYRTACEAE; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANTS, EDIBLE; SEEDLING; SMELL;

ANIMALIA; MACROPODIDAE; MACROPUS SP.; METATHERIA; MYRTACEAE; PITTOSPORACEAE;

EID: 0346250979     PISSN: 00980331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JOEC.0000008008.91498.62     Document Type: Article

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