Do small leaves expand faster than large leaves, and do shorter expansion times reduce herbivore damage?

By A. Moles, M. Westoby. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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The arcsine is asinine: the analysis of proportions in ecology. (2011, background): “Fortunately no leaves in this data set expanded this quickly (Moles and Westoby 2000), but it is plausible (e.g., Aide and Londono 1989).”
Relationships between leaf lifespan and structural defences in a low-nutrient, sclerophyll flora (2001, background): “%) of leaf area lost to herbivory during leaf expansion (measurements made for eight of 17 species; Moles & Westoby 2000).”
The leaf size/number trade‐off in trees (2007, background): “Smaller leaves, associated with reduced leaf expansion time, may also reduce losses to herbivory ( Moles & Westoby 2000 ).”
A handbook of protocols for standardised and easy measurement of plant functional traits worldwide (2003, background): “…and Loucks (1972); Orians and Solbrig (1977); Givnish (1987); Bond and Midgley (1988); Körner et al. (1989); Popma et al. (1992); Richter (1992); Niinemets and Kull (1994); Niklas (1994); Box (1996); Ackerly and Reich (1999); Cornelissen (1999); Moles and Westoby (2000); Westoby et al. (2002).”
Herbivore damage along a latitudinal gradient: relative impacts of different feeding guilds (2003, background): “Rates of herbivory are affected by leaf age (Landsberg 1988, Coley and Aide 1991, Landsberg and Cork 1997, Jackson et al. 1999, Moles and Westoby 2000).”
Precision and accuracy in quantifying herbivory (2016, methodology): “A more commonly employed digital method of estimating herbivore damage involves scanning leaves using a flatbed scanner and analysing the percentage of tissue damage using ImageJ, Adobe Photoshop, Scion or other software (Moles & Westoby, 2000; O’Neal et al., 2002; Škaloudová et al., 2006).”
Cross‐species patterns in the coordination between leaf and stem traits, and their implications for plant hydraulics (2006, background): “Among Australian evergreen species, for example, herbivory levels may increase with increasing leaf size (Moles and Westoby 2000), while the degree of selfshading may decrease (Falster and Westoby 2003).”