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Experimental assessment of interaction costs of inducible defenses in plankton
(2011)
The expression of phenotypically plastic traits in prey organisms, triggered by changes in the abundance of their predators, is customarily assumed to involve costs in some fitness components such as fecundity, growth or ...
Activity budget patterns in family-group and solitary territorial male guanacos
(Sociedad de Biología de Chile, 2004)
Plant growth-defense trade-offs: Molecular processes leading to physiological changes
(MDPI AG, 2021-01-02)
In order to survive in a hostile habitat, plants have to manage the available resources to reach a delicate balance between development and defense processes, setting up what plant scientists call a trade-off. Most of these ...
Emergency funding public policy for disaster response in Brazil from 2013 to 2017
(2020-08-31)
Public financial aid policies for disaster response actions are a poorly studied topic. This article analyzed information extracted from the databases of the State of Emergency and State of Public Calamity decrees and the ...
Leaf synchrony and insect herbivory among tropical tree habitat specialists
(Springer, 2014-02-01)
Growth defense tradeoff theory predicts that plants in low-resource habitats invest more energy in defense mechanisms against natural enemies than growth, whereas plants in high-resource habitats can afford higher leaf ...
No time for candy: passionfruit (Passiflora edulis) plants down-regulate damage-induced extra floral nectar production in response to light signals of competition
(Springer, 2013-09)
Plant fitness is often defined by the combined effects of herbivory and competition, and plants must strike a delicate balance between their ability to capture limiting resources and defend against herbivore attack. Many ...