A seasonal census of phenolics, fibre and alkaloids in foliage of forest trees in Costa Rica: some factors influencing their distribution and relation to host selection by Sphingidae and Saturniidae
- 1 April 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
- Vol. 21 (4) , 439-454
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.1984.tb01605.x
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