In: Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 2015, vol. 35, no. 4, p. 1511-1519
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In: Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 2014, vol. 34, no. 3, p. 649-656
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In: Plant and Soil, 2012, vol. 358, no. 1-2, p. 51-60
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In: Journal of Chemical Ecology, 2012, vol. 38, no. 6, p. 615-628
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In: Journal Of Experimental Botany, 2015, vol. 66, no. 9, p. 2527-2534
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In: Journal of Ecology, 2017, vol. 105, no. 1, p. 142–151
Plants protect themselves against herbivore attacks through a myriad of physical structures and toxic secondary metabolites. Together with abiotic factors, herbivores are expected to modulate plant defence strategies within plant assemblages. Because the abundance of insect herbivore decreases in colder environments, the palatability of plants in communities at higher elevation should shift...
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In: Royal Society Open Science, 2016, vol. 3, no. 9, p. 160226
Elevation gradients impose large differences in abiotic and biotic conditions over short distances, in turn, likely driving differences in gene expression more than would genetic variation per se, as natural selection and drift are less likely to fix alleles at such a narrow spatial scale. As elevation increases, the pressure exerted on plants by herbivores and on arthropod herbivores by...
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In: Ecography, 2014, p. -
Traits that mediate species interactions are evolutionarily shaped by biotic and abiotic drivers, yet we know relatively little about the relative importance of these factors. Herbivore pressure, along with resource availability and ‘third-party’ mutualists, are hypothesized to play a major role in the evolution of plant defence traits. Here, we used the model system Plantago lanceolata,...
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In: Journal of Ecology, 2014, p. -
Dissecting drivers of plant defence investment remains central for understanding the assemblage of communities across different habitats. There is increasing evidence that direct defence strategies against herbivores, including secondary metabolites production, differ along ecological gradients in response to variation in biotic and abiotic conditions. In contrast, intraspecific variation in...
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