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Insect herbivory and plant adaptation in an early successional community.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 May 2018
Agrawal Anurag A, Hastings Amy P, Fines Daniel M, Bogdanowicz Steve, Huber Meret
Abstract excerpt
To address the role of insect herbivores in adaptation of plant populations and the persistence of selection through succession, we manipulated herbivory in a long-term field experiment. We suppressed insects in half of 16 plots over nine years and examined the genotypic structure and chemical defense of common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), a naturally colonizing perennial apomictic plant. Insect suppression...
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