ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2014
Competition induces allelopathy but suppresses growth and anti-herbivore defence in a chemically rich seaweed.
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- High metabolic variation for seaweeds in response to environmental changes: a case study of the brown algae Lobophora in coral reefs.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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- Plastic responses to competition: Does bacteriocin production increase in the presence of nonself competitors?Ecology and evolution · 2018Article
- Regulation of Fatty Acid Production and Release in Benthic Algae: Could Parallel Allelopathy Be Explained with Plant Defence Theories?Microbial ecology · 2018Article
- A Review of "Polychaeta" Chemicals and their Possible Ecological Role.Journal of chemical ecology · 2018Review
- From Marine Origin to Therapeutics: The Antitumor Potential of Marine Algae-Derived Compounds.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2018Review
- Effects of ocean acidification on the potency of macroalgal allelopathy to a common coral.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Allelopathic interactions between the brown algal genus Lobophora (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae) and scleractinian corals.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Cryptic effects of habitat declines: coral-associated fishes avoid coral-seaweed interactions due to visual and chemical cues.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- The Impact of Competition and Allelopathy on the Trade-Off between Plant Defense and Growth in Two Contrasting Tree Species.Frontiers in plant science · 2016Article
- Competitors as accomplices: seaweed competitors hide corals from predatory sea stars.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2015Article
- Coralline algae (Rhodophyta) in a changing world: integrating ecological, physiological, and geochemical responses to global change.Journal of phycology · 2015Review
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Many seaweeds and terrestrial plants induce chemical defences in response to herbivory, but whether they induce chemical defences against competitors (allelopathy) remains poorly understood. We evaluated whether two tropical seaweeds induce allelopathy in response to competition with a reef-building coral. We also assessed the effects of competition on seaweed growth and seaweed chemical defence against herbivores. Following 8 days of competition with the coral Porites cylindrica, the chemically rich seaweed Galaxaura filamentosa induced increased allelochemicals and became nearly twice as damaging to the coral. However, it also experienced significantly reduced growth and increased palatability to herbivores (because of reduced chemical defences). Under the same conditions, the seaweed Sargassum polycystum did not induce allelopathy and did not experience a change in growth or palatability. This is the first demonstration of induced allelopathy in a seaweed, or of competitors reducing seaweed chemical defences against herbivores. Our results suggest that the chemical ecology of coral-seaweed-herbivore interactions can be complex and nuanced, highlighting the need to incorporate greater ecological complexity into the study of chemical defence.
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