> locations. In this area their main food plants are Allocasuarina
littoralis,
> A. torulosa and A. distyla. What I have found interesting is that some
> individual plants are favoured while others nearby remain untouched,
even
> though they bear seed cones.
Hi Carol
There's a paper in the latest 'Emu', or maybe 'Austral Ecology' (aka
'Australian Journal of Ecology'), by John Pepper et al., about how
Glossies are selective of particular trees on Kangaroo Island. They
seem able to pick the most productive individual trees (Allocasuarina
verticillata). Sorry I can't remember which journal, but they both
arrived in my letterbox on the same day!! .... and they're not with me
here in the office.
Cheers -- Lawrie
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Lawrie Conole
Coarse Woody Debris Project
Department of Biological Sciences
Monash University
Clayton Vic 3800 AUSTRALIA
Phone +61 3 9905 5649
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