Antipredatory properties of an animal architecture: how complex faecal cases thwart arthropod attack

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 127-136

  Brown, Christopher G ^a   Funk, Daniel J ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

building behaviour; casebearer; Chrysomelidae; faeces; immature insect; insect plant interaction; leaf beetle; Neochlamisus; predator prey interaction; trichome

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; ARTHROPOD; BEETLE; HOST PLANT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; TRICHOME;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; GRYLLIDAE; HEXAPODA; LYNX; NEOCHLAMISUS; NEOCHLAMISUS BIMACULATUS; NEOCHLAMISUS PLATANI; OXYOPIDAE;

EID: 72149127899     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.10.010     Document Type: Article

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