Assessing the evidence for latitudinal gradients in plant defence and herbivory

By A. Moles, S. Bonser, A. Poore, I. Wallis, William Foley. 2011

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

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Herbivory on freshwater and marine macrophytes: A review and perspective (2016, background): “Three more recent meta-analyses with larger sample sizes found no evidence of latitudinal gradients in herbivore impacts on aquatic macrophyte abundances, some including both vascular plants and macro-algae (Moles et al., 2011; Poore et al., 2012; Wood et al., 2016).”
Evolutionary ecology of plant defences against herbivores (2011, background): “Functional Ecology 2011 British Ecological Society, Functional Ecology, 25, 305–311 explain variation in defence (Endara & Coley 2011; Moles et al. 2011), as well as emerging areas of study that provide new hope in explaining patterns of defence (Rasmann et al. 2011).”
Is the notion that species interactions are stronger and more specialized in the tropics a zombie idea? (2016, background): “For instance, a recent review of the literature on herbivory showed that only 37 percent of the 38 published latitudinal comparisons of herbivory found higher herbivory at lower latitudes (Moles et al. 2011).”
Global patterns in background losses of woody plant foliage to insects (2015, methodology): “…with the diversity in the magnitudes, and even in the directions, of latitudinal patterns in herbivory reported thus far (Garibaldi et al., 2011; Moles et al., 2011a; Salazar & Marquis, 2012; Kozlov et al., 2013, 2015; Więski & Pennings, 2014), suggests that the latitudinal patterns in…”
Latitudinal gradients as natural laboratories to infer species' responses to temperature (2013, background): “However, evidence to the contrary is increasing recently (Adams & Zhang 2009; Moles et al. 2011a,b).”
Adaptive geographical clines in the growth and defense of a native plant (2012, background): “Thus, despite some controversy (Moles et al. 2011), traits that are unequivocally defensive, such as latex (Lewinsohn 1991), alkaloids (Levin 1976), extraﬂoral nectaries (Pemberton 1998), and cardenolides (Rasmann and Agrawal 2011) show a pattern of increased defense in lower-latitude species.”
Causes and implications of the correlation between forest productivity and tree mortality rates (2011, background): “A large global study and a global meta-analysis that did not control for leaf lifespans found no clear latitudinal trend in defenses (Moles et al. 2011a, b), whereas an earlier comparison of leaves of comparable lifespans found that tropical leaves were much better defended than temperate leaves…”
The world and its shades of green: a meta‐analysis on trophic cascades across temperature and precipitation gradients (2013, background): “Coley & Aide, 1991) has been recently challenged by a thorough meta-analysis (Moles et al., 2011).”
Latitudinal variation in herbivory: influences of climatic drivers, herbivore identity and natural enemies (2015, background): “…a recent meta-analysis suggests that negative latitude – herbivory relationships are not as common as previously thought; a meta-analysis by Moles et al. (2011) found that only 37% of the published studies showed higher herbivory at lower latitudes, and the average eff ect size was not…”
Community‐level plant palatability increases with elevation as insect herbivore abundance declines (2017, background): “…latitude exist (Pennings, Siska & Bertness 2001; Scheidel & Bruelheide 2001; Salgado & Pennings 2005; Pellissier et al. 2012, 2014; Rasmann et al. 2014a; but see Moles et al. 2011a,b), it remains unclear whether those genotypic- or species-specific patterns can be generalized to entire communities.”