Are grazing increaser species better tolerators than decreasers? An experimental assessment of defoliation tolerance in eight British grassland species

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Grasses and the resource availability hypothesis: the importance of silica‐based defences (2007, methodology): “…may reflect the opinion that grasses use re-growth, rather than large investments in anti-herbivore defences, as a strategy to cope with herbivory (Del-Val & Crawley 2004, 2005) so that many studies have focused on the ability of increased growth rates to compensate for defoliation (McNaughton…”
Facing herbivory as you grow up: the ontogeny of resistance in plants. (2005, background): “The most-complete study evaluating ontogenetic changes in plant tolerance shows that tolerance changes non-linearly during plant development [ 63 ].”
Compensatory growth responses to clipping defoliation in Leymus chinensis (Poaceae) under nutrient addition and water deficiency conditions (2008, background): “... growth varies as a function of defoliation intensity and resource availability for a grass species in grassland, and which is closely related to recovery time and habitat conditions that include grazing intensity, soil water and nutrient availability as well as species abundance, etc (Edenius et”