Skip to content
Home
About Us
Resources
Profiles Metrics
Authors Directory
Institutions Directory
Top Authors
Top Institutions
Top Sponsors
AI Digest
Contact Us
Menu
Home
About Us
Resources
Profiles Metrics
Authors Directory
Institutions Directory
Top Authors
Top Institutions
Top Sponsors
AI Digest
Contact Us
Home
About Us
Resources
Profiles Metrics
Authors Directory
Institutions Directory
Top Authors
Top Institutions
Top Sponsors
AI Digest
Contact Us
Menu
Home
About Us
Resources
Profiles Metrics
Authors Directory
Institutions Directory
Top Authors
Top Institutions
Top Sponsors
AI Digest
Contact Us
Publication Details
AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Correlations between physical and chemical defences in plants: Tradeoffs, syndromes, or just many different ways to skin a herbivorous cat?
New Phytologist, Volume 198, No. 1, Year 2013
Notification
URL copied to clipboard!
Description
Most plant species have a range of traits that deter herbivores. However, understanding of how different defences are related to one another is surprisingly weak. Many authors argue that defence traits trade off against one another, while others argue that they form coordinated defence syndromes. We collected a dataset of unprecedented taxonomic and geographic scope (261 species spanning 80 families, from 75 sites across the globe) to investigate relationships among four chemical and six physical defences. Five of the 45 pairwise correlations between defence traits were significant and three of these were tradeoffs. The relationship between species' overall chemical and physical defence levels was marginally nonsignificant (P = 0.08), and remained nonsignificant after accounting for phylogeny, growth form and abundance. Neither categorical principal component analysis (PCA) nor hierarchical cluster analysis supported the idea that species displayed defence syndromes. Our results do not support arguments for tradeoffs or for coordinated defence syndromes. Rather, plants display a range of combinations of defence traits. We suggest this lack of consistent defence syndromes may be adaptive, resulting from selective pressure to deploy a different combination of defences to coexisting species. © 2013 The Authors. New Phytologist © 2013 New Phytologist Trust.
Authors & Co-Authors
Moles, Angela T.
Australia, Sydney
Unsw Sydney
Peco, Begoña
Spain, Madrid
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Wallis, Ian R.
Australia, Canberra
Anu Research School of Biology
Foley, William John
Australia, Canberra
Anu Research School of Biology
Poore, Alistair G.B.
Australia, Sydney
Unsw Sydney
Seabloom, Eric W.
United States, Minneapolis
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Vesk, Peter A.
Australia, Melbourne
University of Melbourne
Bisigato, Alejandro J.
Argentina, Buenos Aires
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Cella-Pizarro, Lucrecia
Argentina, Buenos Aires
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Clark, Connie J.
United States, Falmouth
Woods Hole Research Center
Cohen, Philippe S.
United States, Palo Alto
Stanford University
Cornwell, William K.
Netherlands, Amsterdam
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Edwards, Will
Australia, Townsville
James Cook University
Ejrnæs, Rasmus
Denmark, Aarhus
Aarhus Universitet
Gonzales-Ojeda, Therany
Peru, Cusco
Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad Del Cusco
Graae, Bente Jessen
Sweden, Umea
Umeå Universitet
Norway, Trondheim
Norges Teknisk-naturvitenskapelige Universitet
Hay, Gregory
Australia, Adelaide
The University of Adelaide
Lumbwe, Fainess C.
Zambia, Lusaka
University of Zambia
Magaña-Rodríguez, Benjamín
New Zealand, Wellington
Victoria University of Wellington
Moore, Ben D.
Australia, Townsville
James Cook University
Australia, Penrith
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
Peri, Pablo Luis
Argentina, Rio Gallegos
National University of Patagonia Austral
Poulsen, John R.
United States, Falmouth
Woods Hole Research Center
Stegen, James C.
United States, Richland
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Veldtman, Ruan
South Africa, Stellenbosch
Stellenbosch University
South Africa, Pretoria
South African National Biodiversity Institute
von Zeipel, Hugo
Sweden, Sundsvall
Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall
Andrew, Nigel R.
Australia, Armidale
University of new England Australia
Boulter, Sarah L.
Australia, Brisbane
Griffith University
Borer, Elizabeth T.
United States, Minneapolis
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Cornelissen, Johannes H.C.
Netherlands, Amsterdam
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Farji-Brener, Alejandro G.
Argentina, San Carlos de Bariloche
Centro Regional Universitario Bariloche
Degabriel, Jane L.
Australia, Townsville
James Cook University
Jurado, Enrique
Mexico, San Nicolas de Los Garza
Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
Kyhn, Line A.
Denmark, Roskilde
Nationalt Center for Miljø og Energi
Low, Bill
Australia
Low Ecological Services
Mulder, Christa P.H.
United States, Fairbanks
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Reardon-Smith, Kathryn M.
Australia, Toowoomba
University of Southern Queensland
Rodríguez-Velázquez, Jorge
Mexico, Morelia
Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad
De Fortier, An
South Africa, Ulundi
University of Zululand
Zheng, Zheng
China, Mengla
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden Chinese Academy of Sciences
Blendinger, Pedro G.
Argentina, San Miguel de Tucuman
Universidad Nacional de Tucuman Unt
Enquist, Brian J.
United States, Tucson
The University of Arizona
Facelli, Jose M.
Norway, Trondheim
Norges Teknisk-naturvitenskapelige Universitet
Knight, Tiffany M.
United States, St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis
Majer, Jonathan David
Australia, Perth
Curtin University
Martínez-Ramos, Miguel
Mexico, Morelia
Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad
McQuillan, Peter
Australia, Hobart
University of Tasmania
Hui, Francis K.C.
Australia, Sydney
Unsw Sydney
Statistics
Citations: 132
Authors: 47
Affiliations: 39
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1111/nph.12116
ISSN:
0028646X
e-ISSN:
14698137