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Convergence in Defense Syndromes of Young Leaves in Tropical Rainforests
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It is suggested that physiological constraints limit the defense combinations of any one species to a restricted subset of those observed, as species with the escape syndrome suffer much higher rates of damage.About:
This article is published in Biochemical Systematics and Ecology.The article was published on 2003-08-01. It has received 297 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Chemical defense.read more
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Plant structural traits and their role in anti-herbivore defence
TL;DR: It is concluded that leaf-mass–area is a robust index of sclerophylly as a surrogate for more rigorous mechanical properties used in herbivory studies and how a better understanding of plant structural defence would improve the understanding of Plant defence theory and enable us to predict how plant morphological responses to climate change might influence interactions at the individual, species, and ecosystem levels.
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Plant defense syndromes.
Anurag Agrawal,Mark Fishbein +1 more
TL;DR: The discovery of convergent plant defense syndromes can be used as a framework to ask questions about how abiotic environments, communities of herbivores, and biogeography are associated with particular defense strategies of plants.
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Macroevolution and the biological diversity of plants and herbivores
TL;DR: In this article, the processes that have generated the spectacular diversity of flowering plants (>300,000 species) and insect herbivores (likely > 1 million species) are addressed.
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Plant traits that predict resistance to herbivores
TL;DR: The hypothesis that herbivores select most strongly on genetic variation in life-history, morphological and physical resistance traits, but the greater pleiotropic effects of genes controlling these traits impose strong constraints on their evolution is proposed.
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Current trends in the evolutionary ecology of plant defence
TL;DR: This essay summarizes current trends in the evolutionary ecology of plant defence, while advocating for approaches that integrate community ecology with specific tests of classic evolutionary hypotheses, as well as proposing the evolution of specificity as a final frontier in understanding complexity in plant–herbivore interactions.
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New spectrophotometric equations for determining chlorophylls a, b, c1 and c2 in higher plants, algae and natural phytoplankton
S.W. Jeffrey,G.F. Humphrey +1 more
TL;DR: New equations are presented for spectrophotometric determination of chlorophylls, based on revised extinction coefficients of chloropylls a, b, c1 and c2, which may be used for determining chlorophyLLs a and b in higher plants and green algae.
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Butterflies and plants: a study in coevolution
Paul R. Ehrlich,Peter H. Raven +1 more
TL;DR: The relationship between butterflies and their food plants is investigated, the examination of patterns of interaction between two major groups of organisms with a close and evident ecological relationship, such as plants and herbivores.
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Herbivory and plant defenses in tropical forests
P. D. Coley and,J. A. Barone +1 more
TL;DR: Folivorous mammals do less damage than insects or pathogens but have evolved to cope with the high levels of plant defenses and, along with insect herbivores, may contribute to the maintenance of tree diversity.
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Herbivory and defensive characteristics of tree species in a lowland tropical forest
TL;DR: Interspecific patterns of defense mechanisms are discussed in terms of current theories of plant apparency, and an alternative model for the evolution of plant defenses is presented.