ArticleFunctional ecology2019
Ecological interactions shape the adaptive value of plant defence: Herbivore attack versus competition for light.
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- Growth-defense trade-offs shape population genetic composition in an iconic forest tree species.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
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- Ecological interactions shape the adaptive value of plant defence: Herbivore attack versus competition for light.Functional ecology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Plants defend themselves against diverse communities of herbivorous insects. This requires an investment of limited resources, for which plants also compete with neighbours. The consequences of an investment in defence are determined by the metabolic costs of defence as well as indirect or ecological costs through interactions with other organisms. These ecological costs have a potentially strong impact on the evolution of defensive traits, but have proven to be difficult to quantify.We aimed to quantify the relative impact of the direct and indirect or ecological costs and benefits of an investment in plant defence in relation to herbivory and intergenotypic competition for light. Additionally, we evaluated how the benefits of plant defence balance its costs in the context of herbivory and intergenotypic competition.To this end, we utilised a functional-structural plant (FSP) model of
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