Functional responses to food diversity: The effect of seed availability on the feeding behavior of facultative granivores

Journal of Entomological Science

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 160-176

  Lundgren, Jonathan G ^a   Harwood, James D ^b  

^a North Central Agricultural Research Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dietary breadth; Granivory; Gut content analysis; Omnivory; Predator

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877675548     PISSN: 07498004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18474/0749-8004-47.2.160     Document Type: Article

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