Roles of the volatile terpene, 1,8-cineole, in plant-herbivore interactions: A foraging odor cue as well as a toxin?

Oecologia

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 827-837

  Bedoya Pérez, Miguel A ^a   Isler, Ido ^a   Banks, Peter B ^a   McArthur, Clare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Feeding cues; Foraging responses; Giving up density; Mammalian herbivores; Plant volatiles

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MAMMAL; NICHE; ODOR; OLFACTION; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; TERPENE; TOXICITY; TOXIN;

CINEOLE; CYCLOHEXANOL DERIVATIVE; TERPENE; TOXIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHEMISTRY; DIET; EATING; ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORY; KANGAROO; MALE; ODOR; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; TRICHOSURUS;

ANIMALS; CUES; CYCLOHEXANOLS; DIET; EATING; ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORY; MACROPODIDAE; MALE; MONOTERPENES; ODORS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS; TERPENES; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL; TRICHOSURUS;

EID: 84897613394     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-013-2801-x     Document Type: Article

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