Current trends in the evolutionary ecology of plant defence

Functional Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 420-432

  Agrawal, Anurag A ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Co evolution; Community ecology; Costs of defence; Macroevolution; Phylogenetic ecology; Plant defence theory; Plant herbivore interactions; Resistance; Specificity of induced defence; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ANTIHERBIVORE DEFENSE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HORMONE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MACROECOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; TOLERANCE; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 79952669261     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01796.x     Document Type: Article

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