Ontogenetic switches from plant resistance to tolerance: Minimizing costs with age?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 177-187

  Boege, Karina ^a,d   Dirzo, Rodolfo ^a   Siemens, David ^b   Brown, Paul ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Costs; Herbivory; Ontogenetic trajectories; Resistance; Tolerance; Tradeoffs

Indexed keywords

ANTIHERBIVORE DEFENSE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EDIBLE SPECIES; HERBIVORY; ONTOGENY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TOLERANCE; TRADE-OFF;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; RADISH; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANT LEAVES; RAPHANUS;

RAPHANUS SATIVUS;

EID: 33847064637     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.01012.x     Document Type: Review

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