Inducible chemical defences in animals [PDF]
Oikos, 2014 Phenotypic plasticity is extremely widespread in the behaviour, morphology and life‐history of animals. However, inducible changes in the production of defensive chemicals are described mostly in plants and surprisingly little is known about similar plasticity in chemical defences of animals. Inducible chemical defences may be common in animals because
A. Hettyey, Z. Tóth, J. Buskirk
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Small prey fight back: post-capture defences shape prey–predator size relationships [PDF]
Scientific ReportsSize relationships between prey and predators are a key topic in ecology. A positive correlation often exists between the sizes of prey and predators. Although predators can consume much smaller prey, some preferentially target larger prey and avoid very
Shinji Sugiura
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Deterrent activities in the crude lipophilic fractions of Antarctic benthic organisms: chemical defences against keystone predators [PDF]
Polar Research, 2014 Generalist predation constitutes a driving force for the evolution of chemical defences. In the Antarctic benthos, asteroids and omnivore amphipods are keystone opportunistic predators.
Laura Núñez-Pons, Conxita Avila
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Acorn‐Weevil Interactions in Semi‐Humid Evergreen Broad‐Leaved Forests in Yunnan, China: Trade‐Offs Among Acorn Functional Traits [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionAcorns are crucial for the regeneration and stability of oak forest communities, yet they often suffer significant predation by weevils before dispersal.
Shengquan Fang +8 more
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Leaf Colour as a Signal of Chemical Defence to Insect Herbivores in Wild Cabbage (Brassica oleracea). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Leaf colour has been proposed to signal levels of host defence to insect herbivores, but we lack data on herbivory, leaf colour and levels of defence for wild host populations necessary to test this hypothesis.
Jonathan P Green +4 more
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Seaweed Invasions and Novel Chemical Defences [PDF]
, 2012 Biological invasions pose a risk to the biodiversity and the functioning of ecosystems in invaded areas. The reasons why some introduced species become dominant and widespread in their new environments is still largely an unsettled question.
Enge, Swantje
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Inter-Kingdom beach warfare: Microbial chemical communication activates natural chemical defences. [PDF]
ISME J, 2019 Khalil ZG +4 more
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Chemical antipredator defence is linked to higher extinction risk [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Many attributes of species may be linked to contemporary extinction risk, though some such traits remain untested despite suggestions that they may be important.
Kevin Arbuckle
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Leaf chemical defences and insect herbivory in oak: accounting for canopy position unravels marked genetic relatedness effects [PDF]
Annals of Botany, 2020 Elena Valdes Correcher +2 more
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Anti-predatory chemical defences in Antarctic benthic fauna
Marine Biology, 2015 Antarctic benthic communities are largely structured by predation, which leads to the development of mechanisms of repellence. Among those mechanisms, chemical defences are quite extensive, yet poorly understood.
J. Moles +5 more
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