Inducible defences prevent strong population fluctuations in bi‐ and tritrophic food chains

By A. Verschoor, Matthijs Vos, I. V. D. Stap. 2004

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Invited Review - Fight on Plankton! or, Phytoplankton Shape and Size as Adaptive Tools to Get Ahead in the Struggle for Life (2011, background): “…of zooplankton infochemicals on the morphology of the closely related green algae Scenedesmus (nonspiny) and Desmodesmus (spine armored), formerly both belonging to the genus Scenedesmus, has been intensively studied (e.g. Hessen & van Donk, 1993; Lürling & van Donk, 1997; Verschoor et al., 2004).”
Induced defences in marine and freshwater phytoplankton: a review (2011, background): “ Verschoor et al. (2004b) empirically tested the predictions by Vos et al. (2004a), using food chains consisting of inducible defended and undefended algae, herbivorous rotifers and carnivorous rotifers.”
Evolutionary ecology of inducible morphological plasticity in predator–prey interaction: toward the practical links with population ecology (2009, background): “…systems, Verschoor and his colleague elegantly showed stabilizing effects of inducible defense on population dynamics, in which inducible morphological defense of algae stabilize the dynamics of bi- and tritrophic planktonic food chains in case of eutrophic environment (Verschoor et al. 2004).”