What Kinds of Plants do Herbivores Really Prefer?
- 1 May 1978
- journal article
- letter
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 112 (985), 631-635
- https://doi.org/10.1086/283304
Abstract
Nutrient constraints are considered one of several factors which may encourage predators to take mixed diets. How often, and in what kinds of organisms nutrient constraints and other diet diversifying factors operate, are examined in the context of different kinds of predators (herbivores, carnivores and omnivores). The linear program model of Westoby (1974) for herbivore diets is discussed.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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