Rates of herbivory on different tropical trees

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Publication Type Book Chapter
School or College College of Science
Department Biology
Creator Coley, Phyllis D.
Title Rates of herbivory on different tropical trees
Date 1982
Description Rates of herbivory on marked young and mature leaves from saplings of 21 canopy tree species were measured in the wet and dry seasons. Species were classified into two life history groups: persistent species which are found throughout the shaded understory, and pioneer species which only become established in light gaps created by fallen trees. Mature leaves of slow-growing persistent species were eaten by insects at an average annual rate of 21%, whereas rapidly growing pioneer species were grazed 4 times faster in the dry season and 10 times faster in the wet.
Type Text
Publisher Smithsonian Institution Press
First Page 123
Last Page 132
Subject Herbivory; Grazing damage; Tropical trees; Pioneer species; Trees -- Tropics
Subject LCSH Grazing -- Environmental aspects
Language eng
Bibliographic Citation Coley, P. D. (1982). Rates of herbivory on different tropical trees, in Ecology of a Tropical Forest: Seasonal Rhythms and Long-Term Changes, Egbert G. Leigh, A.Stanley Rand and Donald M. Windsor (eds). 123-32.
Rights Management (c)Phyllis D. Coley
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6708jxf
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