Low nutritive quality as a plant defence: Effects of herbivore-mediated interactions

A plant may lower its nutritive quality, for herbivores, by using secondary compounds, morphological characters and/or having a lowered nutrient content. If such traits decrease the amount of resources lost through herbivory, then they act as antiherbivore defences. However, if herbivores compensate...

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Veröffentlicht in:Evolutionary ecology 1995-11, Vol.9 (6), p.605-616
1. Verfasser: Augner, Magnus
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