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Compensatory growth (organism)

About: Compensatory growth (organism) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 761 publications have been published within this topic receiving 27724 citations. The topic is also known as: catch-up growth & compensatory gain.


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01 May 1983-Oikos
TL;DR: Fundamental differences between the response of woody plants and graminoids to vertebrate herbivory suggest that the dynamics of browsing systems and grazing systems are qualitatively different.
Abstract: The evolutionary response of plants to herbivory is constrained by the availability of resources in the environment. Woody plants adapted to low-resource environments have intrinsically slow growth rates that limit their capacity to grow rapidly beyond the reach of most browsing mammals. Their low capacity to acquire resources limits their potential for compensatory growth which would otherwise enable them to replace tissue destroyed by browsing. Plants adapted to low-resource environments have responded to browsing by evolving strong constitutive defenses with relatively low ontogenetic plasticity. Because nutrients are often more limiting than light in boreal forests, slowly growing boreal forest trees utilize carbon-based rather than nitrogen-based defenses. More rapidly growing shade-intolerant trees that are adapted to growth in high-resource environments are selected for competitive ability and can grow rapidly beyond the range of most browsing mammals. Moreover, these plants have the carbon and nutrient reserves necessary to replace tissue lost to browsing through compensatory growth. However, because browsing of juvenile plants reduces vertical growth and thus competitive ability, these plants are selected for resistance to browsing during the juvenile growth phase. Consequently, early successional boreal forest trees have responded to browsing by evolving strong defenses during juvenility only. Because severe pruning causes woody plants to revert to a juvenile form, resistance of woody plants to hares increases after severe hare browsing as occurs during hare population outbreaks. This increase in browsing resistance may play a significant role in boreal forest plant-hare interactions. Unlike woody plants, graminoids retain large reserves of carbon and nutrients below ground in both low-resource and high-resource environments and can respond to severe grazing through compensatory growth. These fundamental differences between the response of woody plants and graminoids to vertebrate herbivory suggest that the dynamics of browsing systems and grazing systems are qualitatively different.

2,439 citations

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TL;DR: It is suggested that, although compensatory growth can bring quick benefits, it is also associated with a surprising variety of costs that are often not evident until much later in adult life.
Abstract: Nutritional conditions during key periods of development, when the architecture and modus operandi of the body become established, are of profound importance in determining the subsequent life-history trajectory of an organism. If developing individuals experience a period of nutritional deficit, they can subsequently show accelerated growth should conditions improve, apparently compensating for the initial setback. However, recent research suggests that, although compensatory growth can bring quick benefits, it is also associated with a surprising variety of costs that are often not evident until much later in adult life. Clearly, the nature of these costs, the timescale over which they are incurred and the mechanisms underlying them will play a crucial role in determining compensatory strategies. Nonetheless, such effects remain poorly understood and largely neglected by ecologists and evolutionary biologists.

1,784 citations

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01 May 1983-Oikos
TL;DR: Compensatory growth in plants subjected to herbivory may alleviate the potential deleterious effects of tissue damage, whether to vegetative or reproductive organs.
Abstract: Compensatory growth in plants subjected to herbivory may alleviate the potential deleterious effects of tissue damage, whether to vegetative or reproductive organs Tissue destruction is rarely, if ever, translated monotonically into a proportional reduction of final yield Internal mechanisms of compensation involve modifications of plant metabolism; external mechanisms of compensation involve modifications of the plant environment that are favorable to plant growth and yield

1,165 citations

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TL;DR: Ali, M., Nicieza, A., Wootton, R. J. et al. as discussed by the authors have shown that compensatory growth in fishes is a response to growth depression.
Abstract: Ali, M., Nicieza, A., Wootton, R. J. (2003). Compensatory growth in fishes: a response to growth depression. Fish and Fisheries, 4, (2), 147-190. Sponsorship: Royal Society of London – Chinese Academy of Sciences Exchange award

787 citations

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TL;DR: Coronary heart disease appears to be a developmental disorder that originates through two widespread biological phenomena, developmental plasticity and compensatory growth.
Abstract: People who develop coronary heart disease grow differently from other people both in utero and during childhood. Slow growth during fetal life and infancy is followed by accelerated weight gain in childhood. Two disorders that predispose to coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes and hypertension, are preceded by similar paths of growth. Mechanisms underlying this are thought to include the development of insulin resistance in utero, reduced numbers of nephrons associated with small body size at birth and altered programming of the micro-architecture and function of the liver. Slow fetal growth might also heighten the body's stress responses and increase vulnerability to poor living conditions in later life. Coronary heart disease appears to be a developmental disorder that originates through two widespread biological phenomena, developmental plasticity and compensatory growth.

634 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202128
202029
201919
201830
201726
201617