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A Framework for Predicting Intraspecific Variation in Plant Defense.
Trends in ecology & evolution - 1 Aug 2016
Hahn Philip G, Maron John L
Abstract excerpt
One of the most well-supported theories regarding the evolution of plant defenses is the resource availability hypothesis (RAH). RAH posits that species from high-resource environments grow fast and allocate little to herbivore-resistance traits, whereas those species in low-resource environments grow slow and are highly resistant to herbivores. However, within species, how resources influence defense is unclear...
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