@article {KNZ001618,
	title = {Dietary selection and nutritional regulation in a common mixed-feeding insect herbivore},
	journal = {Experimentalis et Applicata Entomologia},
	volume = {148},
	year = {2013},
	pages = {20 -26},
	abstract = {<p>The geometric framework provides a way for understanding the multi-dimensional nutritional relationships between consumers and their food. We use this approach to further our understanding of the feeding and nutritional ecology of a ubiquitous mixed-feeding insect herbivore that consumes a variety of host plants spanning a wide range of nutritional composition. Our overall objective was to examine feeding decisions, resulting performance, and post-ingestive consequences in a common mixed-feeding insect herbivore, Melanoplus bivittatus (Say) (Orthoptera: Acrididae), when presented with paired diets differing in protein:carbohydrate (p:c) ratio. Intake p:c of M. bivittatus differed among all but two treatments and in many cases was farther than expected from the previously identified p:c intake target for this species. Despite this variability in intake of protein and carbohydrate, we found few effects of the diet treatments on performance or post-ingestive processing. However, our results suggest that when feeding on high-quality diets, nutrients consumed in excess may be stored rather than excreted.</p>},
	keywords = {LTER-KNZ, acrididae, carbohydrate, geometric framework, homeostasis, Melanoplus bivittatus, nutritional ecology, Orthoptera, protein},
	doi = {10.1111/eea.12065},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/eea.12065},
	author = {Jonas, J.L. and Anthony Joern}
}
