Research Catalog

Title

Proceedings : Symposium on Plant-Herbivore Interactions : Snowbird, Utah, August 7-9, 1985 / compilers, Frederick D. Provenza, Jerran T. Flinders, E. Durant McArthur.

Author

Symposium on Plant-Herbivore Interactions (1985 : Snowbird, Utah)

Publication

Ogden, Utah : Intermountain Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, [1987]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Provenza, Frederick D.
• Flinders, Jerran T.
• McArthur, E. Durant.
• Shrub Research Consortium.
• United States. Department of Agriculture.
• Intermountain Research Station (Ogden, Utah)

Description

179 pages : illustrations; 28 cm.

Summary

"Fourth in a series of proceedings of symposia on wildland shrubs, this publication brings together current knowledge of interactions between plants and herbivores. Topics addressed by the 31 papers include plant chemistry, palatability, nutrition and physiology, herbivore foraging behavior, and plant response to browsing."

Series Statement

General technical report INT ; 222

Uniform Title

General technical report INT ; 222.

Subject

• Woody plants > Ecology > Congresses
• Herbivores > Ecology > Congresses
• Biotic communities > Congresses
• Biotic communities
• Herbivores > Ecology
• Woody plants > Ecology

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• "Proceedings of the Fourth Wildland Shrub Symposium, sponsored by the Shrub Research Consortium"--P. [2] of cover.
• "January 1987"--Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

Introduction: Plant-herbivore interactions / Frederick D. Provenza, Jerran T, Flinders, and E. Durant McArthur -- sec. 1. Plant chemistry: Effect of resource availability on woody plant-mammal interaction / John P. Bryant [and others] ; Forest stand-age-related differences in apparent nutritional quality of forage for deer in southeastern Alaska / Thomas A. Hanley [and others] ; Secondary chemistry among sympatric plant species and its relationship to insect herbivory / Rex G. Cates and Debra Carol McElroy ; Between-species differences in leaf defenses of tropical trees / Phyllis D. Coley -- sec. 2. Palatability: Plant secondary metabolites as feeding deterrents to vertebrate herbivores / P. Reichert, T. Clausen, and J. Bryant ; Classifying African savanna trees and shrubs in terms of the palatability for browsing ungulates / Norman Owen-Smith and Susan M. Cooper ; Studies on interactions between moose and two species of birch in Sweden : a review / Kjell Danell and Roger Bergstrom ; Intraspecific variation in moose preference for willows / Kenneth L. Risenhoover ; Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) monoterpenoid concentrations as factors in diet selection bt free-grazing sheep / Wilson K. Yabann, Elizabeth A. Burritt, and John C. Malechek ; Preference and digestability of three big sagebrush subspecies and black sagebrush as related to crude terpenoid chemistry / Carl L. Wambolt [and others] ; Saponin effect on small mammal forage preference in a planting of Atriplex canescens / S.C. Sanderson [and others] ; Alkaloids and palatability of poisonous plants / M.H. Ralphs and J.D. Olsen ; Phytochemical constituents in a Sonoran Desert plant community / Charles S. Wisdom, Azucena Gonzalez-Coloma, and Philip W. Rundel ; Jackrabbit-shrub interactions in the Mojave Desert / Richard B. Hunter ; Chemical components of Chrysothamnus nauseosus : a preliminary investigation / D. Hegerhorst, D.J. Weber, and E.D. McArthur -- sec. 3. Nutrition and physiology: Overview of poisonous plant-livestock interaction in the United States / Lynn F. James and Michael H. Ralphs ; Chenical defense in a woody plant and the role of digestive systems of herbivores / R. Thomas Palo ; Southern Texas shrubs--nutritive value and utilization by herbivores / L.W. Varner and L.H. Blankenship ; The relationship of Tetradymia species and Artemisia nova to photosensitization in sheep / A. Earl Johnson ; Prenatal and neonatal death of lambs due to maternal grazing of Veratrum californicum / Richard F. Keeler ; Primary photosensitization in livestock by range plants / M. Coburn Williams ; A review of pine needle and broom snakeweed abortion in cattle / Kip E. Planter and Lynn F. James -- sec. 4. Foraging behavior: Diet training : behavioral concepts and management objectives / Frederick D. Provenza and David F. Balph ; Domestic herbivore foraging tactics and landscape pattern / R.L. Senft ; Snowberry (Symphoricarpos oreophilus) defoliation by sheep : an example of selective browsing / Calvin F. Bagley, G.B. Ruyle, and James E. Browns -- sec. 5. Plant response to browsing: Growth, nutrient, and water status of jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis) in relation to livestock grazing / Bruce A. Roundy [and others] ; Difficulties in interpretation of long-term vegetation trends in response to livestock grazing / Warren P. Clary and Ralph C. Holmgren ; Influence of ungualtes on the development of the shrub understory of an upper slope mixed conifer forest / Paul J. Edgerton ; Effects of livestock grazing and thinning of overstory trees on understory woody plants / Daniel W. Uresk ; Using twig diameters to estimate browse utilization on three shrub species in southeastern Montana / Mark A. Rumble -- Natural history of Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah : a field tour / Kimball T. Harper.

LCCN

87600832

OCLC

• ocm17984361
• 17984361
• SCSB-1701794

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library