The carbon–nutrient balance hypothesis: its rise and fall

By Jason Hamilton, A. Zangerl, Evan H. DeLucia, M. Berenbaum. 2001

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

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A history of atmospheric CO[2] and its effects on plants, animals, and ecosystems (2005, background): “Over the past several decades, the factors responsible for the evolution and diversification of plant chemical defenses have been the subject of considerable conjecture and debate (Bryant, Chapin, and Klein 1983; Coley, Bryant, and Chapin 1985; Hems and Mattson 1992; Hamilton et al. 2001).”
CHEMICAL DEFENSE IN A MARINE ALGA: HERITABILITY AND THE POTENTIAL FOR SELECTION BY HERBIVORES (2004, background): “Interestingly, in D. pulchra the heritabilities of both total and individual furanones were generally lower than those described for secondary metabolites from terrestrial plants (Berenbaum and Zangerl 1992, Hamilton et al. 2001) suggesting strong environmental effects on their variation.”
Protective ant-plant interactions as model systems in ecological and evolutionary research. (2003, result): “Results from ant-plant studies are thus representative of many other recent studies of chemical defenses that have failed to support the C/N balance hypothesis, which some authors now regard as definitively “rejected” (Hamilton et al. 2001).”
Plant defence theory re‐examined: nonlinear expectations based on the costs and benefits of resource mutualisms (2011, background): “While early hypotheses relied on plant nutrient availability in ecological time to predict plant allocation to defence or growth (Bryant, Chapin & Klein 1983), many of the underlying assumptions have since been challenged (Gershenzon 1994; Hamilton et al. 2001).”
ATTENUATION OF TOP-DOWN AND BOTTOM-UP FORCES IN A COMPLEX TERRESTRIAL COMMUNITY (2004, background): “Although there are conflicting hypotheses for plant allocation of increased mineral resources (Stamp 2003), and numerous contradictory findings (Hamilton et al. 2001), fertilization more often benefited populations of phloem- or xylem-feeding insects on trees than leaf chewers (Kytö et al. 1996;…”
Defensive responses of Pinus pinaster seedlings to exogenous application of methyl jasmonate: concentration effect and systemic response. (2009, methodology): “According to the Optimal Defense Theory (Hamilton et al., 2001; Pavia et al., 2002) seedlings receiving information of herbivore or biotic risk could respond by preferentially allocating resources to better guard the most valuable tissues and plant parts.”
Environmental hormesis, a fundamental non-monotonic biological phenomenon with implications in ecotoxicology and environmental safety (2018, background): “Therefore, the carbon-nutrient balance hypothesis along with plant homeostatic features (Hamilton et al., 2001) requires further validation in relation to progressive hormesis.”
FOLIAR NUTRITION, SITE QUALITY, AND TEMPERATURE INFLUENCE FOLIAR CHEMISTRY OF TALLOWWOOD (EUCALYPTUS MICROCORYS) (2004, background): “It has been dismissed by some ecologists for its narrow scope, its failure to consider adaptive changes in PSM production, and because of perceived empirical failures (Koricheva et al. 1998, Hamilton et al. 2001, Koricheva 2002, Nitao et al. 2002).”
Out Of The Quagmire Of Plant Defense Hypotheses (2003, methodology): “Instead researchers have assumed that a correlation between fitness and defense of plants exposed to herbivores is evidence for a benefit of defense proportional to defense level (Hamilton et al. 2001).”
Are endophytic fungi defensive plant mutualists (2002, background): “…plant defense (McKey 1974), noted that the benefit of a chemical defense is notoriously difficult to measure because the chemical defense usually cannot be eliminated from the plant, so that the fitness change due to loss of herbivory (Hamilton et al. 2001) or allelopathy (Siemens et al. 2002).”