Effects of natural and simulated herbivory on spine lengths of Acacia drepanolobium in Kenya

By T. Young, M. Stanton, C. Christian. 2003

137 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Ecology

1. F. Valladares
2. Felicia Keesing
3. T. Young
4. J. Goheen
5. T. Palmer
6. Ernesto Gianoli
7. Jacintha Ellers
8. J. Gómez

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. F. Valladares
2. T. Palmer
3. Ernesto Gianoli
4. Felicia Keesing
5. J. Goheen
6. T. Young
7. Mick E. Hanleya
8. Christine M. Raffertyb

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. F. Valladares
2. T. Young
3. T. Palmer
4. J. Goheen
5. Ernesto Gianoli
6. J. Gómez
7. Felicia Keesing
8. Jacintha Ellers

Citations in the corpus

• Plant structural traits and their role in anti-herbivore defence (2007, background): “Indeed, structural traits such as spines or trichomes provide an ideal model system for the study of induced defences as they are easy and inexpensive to measure in the field, can be readily manipulated on the plant, and have a clear and demonstrable defensive function (Young et al., 2003).”
• Trait plasticity in species interactions: a driving force of community dynamics (2010, background): “For example, herbivory induces an increase in the number and length of protective spines on Acacia drepanolobium, which enhances the competitive ability and fitness of Acacia under grazing pressure ( Young et al. 2003 ).”
• Consequences of herbivory by native ungulates for the reproduction of a savanna tree (2007, methodology): “Following the methods of Young et al . (2003) , we measured to the nearest mm, the first mature spine occurring at least 5 cm from each growing shoot tip and a single spine at the next three nodes more proximate to the tree.”
• Aposematic (Warning) Coloration in Plants (2009, unknown): “Moreover, like several other types of induced defenses, thorns and spines are known to increase in size and number following herbivory (e.g., Milewski et al. 1991 ; Perevolotsky and Haimov 1991 ; Young et al. 2003) .”
• Ecological limits to plant phenotypic plasticity. (2007, background): “…diverse; they include chemical defences (Agrawal, 1999, 2000), mechanical structures such as thorns, spines and trichomes (Gómez & Zamora, 2002; Young et al., 2003), nutritional quality traits (Bi et al., 1997), volatiles that attract predators and parasites of herbivores (Takabayashi & Dicke,…”