Sentences with phrase «herbivory by»

J. Orrock et al., «Induced defences in plants reduce herbivory by increasing cannibalism,» Nature Ecology & Evolution, doi: 10.1038 / s41559 -017-0231-6, 2017.

It covers all infectious agents that attack plants and abiotic disorders, but does not include herbivory by insects, mammals, etc..

Not exact matches

In other words, the presence of a green crab was as effective a deterrent to sesarma herbivory as actual attacks by green crabs.

To the extent that herbivory impacts plant communities, these results suggest that deer promote the spread of some plant invaders by avoiding them.»

In contrast, the later processes of plant regeneration such as seed predation, recruitment and herbivory, were found to be less consistently affected by humans.

«Our native Phragmites in North America is getting hammered by both native and introduced insects, whereas the invasive Phragmites in North America suffers far less herbivory than it does in its native Europe,» she said.

At each site Meyerson and Cronin measured plant biomass and defenses against herbivores and quantified insect damage by galling, chewing and sucking (aphids) insects to measure the effects of herbivory on Phragmites fitness.

Chemical defenses are secondary metabolites produced by the plant that deter herbivory.

For example, they describe the unexpectedly high amounts of beetle herbivory in soybeans in response to elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide, as evidenced by FACE experiments.