Titrating the cost of plant toxins against predators: determining the tipping point for foraging herbivores

1. Foraging herbivores must deal with plant characteristics that inhibit feeding and they must avoid being eaten. Principally, toxins limit food intake, while predation risk alters how long animals are prepared to harvest resources. Each of these factors strongly affects how herbivores use food patc...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Journal of animal ecology 2011-07, Vol.80 (4), p.753-760
Hauptverfasser:	Nersesian, Carolyn L., Banks, Peter B., McArthur, Clare
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animal and plant ecology Animal ecology Animal feeding behavior Animal, plant and microbial ecology Animals Behavioural ecology behaviours Biological and medical sciences Chemical ecology Cyclohexanols - metabolism Diet Eucalyptus - chemistry Female Flowers & plants Food Chain Food Preferences Foraging Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology General aspects herbivore Herbivores Indexing in process interactions Male Monoterpenes - metabolism New South Wales Opossums patch use plant secondary metabolites plant toxins Predation predation risk Predators risk titration tipping point Toxins Toxins, Biological - metabolism Trichosurus - physiology
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