Monocot leaves are eaten less than dicot leaves in tropical lowland rain forests: Correlations with toughness and leaf presentation

Annals of Botany

Volumn 101, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1379-1389

  Grubb, Peter J ^a   Jackson, Robyn V ^b   Barberis, Ignacio M ^a,i   Bee, Jennie N ^a,j   Coomes, David A ^a   Dominy, Nathaniel J ^c   De La Fuente, Marie Ann S ^b   Lucas, Peter W ^d   Metcalfe, Daniel J ^e   Svenning, Jens Christian ^f   Turner, Ian M ^g,k   Vargas, Orlando ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b University of California ^*  (Costa Rica)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

^f AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^g SINGAPORE BOTANIC GARDENS   (Singapore)

^h Organización para Estudios Tropicales   (Costa Rica)

ⁱ Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^j UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^k ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Anti herbivore defences; Dicots; Herbivory; Leaf folding; Leaf rolling; Leaf toughness; Monocots; Palms; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

ANTIHERBIVORE DEFENSE; HERBIVORE; HERBIVORY; INSECT; LEAF; MONOCOTYLEDON; RAINFOREST;

ANGIOSPERM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INVERTEBRATE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANGIOSPERMS; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; INVERTEBRATES; PLANT LEAVES; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

CENTRAL AMERICA; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

DICOTYLEDONEAE; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LILIOPSIDA;

EID: 44649151043     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcn047     Document Type: Article

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