Mechanical Defences to Herbivory

By P. Lucas, I. Turner, N. Dominy, Nayuta Yamashita. 2000

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Subfields: Building and Construction, Mechanical Engineering, Plant Science

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Evolution of plant resistance and tolerance to frost damage (2004, background): “Alternatively, selection against tolerance could be an artefact of low vigour families, with low fitness across a range of environments, being mistakenly estimated as tolerant simply because their low variance in fitness constrains the slope of fitness on damage.”
Mammalian dental function and wear: A review (2015, neutral): “These resistances correspond to the stress-and displacement-limited defenses described by Lucas and his colleagues [37].”
Induction of plant responses to oviposition and feeding by herbivorous arthropods: a comparison (2002, background): “The changes in plants suffering feeding damage have been investigated with respect to different facets, such as physical (e.g., leaf toughness, Lucas et al., 2000) and chemical changes (primary and secondary components, Karban & Baldwin, 1997).”
Interspecific integration of trait dimensions at local scales: the plant phenotype as an integrated network (2017, background): “In contrast, HLESBROAD holds that correlations occur among all the traits known to affect resource acquisition and conservation, including SRL, Leaf Thickness, d13C and LCC (Table S2b) (Farquhar, Ehleringer & Hubick 1989; Eissenstat 1991; Lucas et al. 2000; Niinemets et al. 2007).”
Grazing refuges, external avoidance of herbivory and plant diversity (2002, background): “On the other hand, physical structures such as thorns may be better deterrents of mammalian than of insect herbivores simply because insects are sufficiently small to maneuver around thorns, although some leaf hairs function as tiny spines (Lucas et al. 2000).”
Physical defence traits enhance seedling survival of neotropical tree species (2007, background): “Material strength of plant tissue is a function of cell wall volume fraction, of the relative representation of fibre components in cells, and of how fibre-rich cell walls are organized in the tissue (Lucas et al. 2000).”
Hypsodonty in ungulates: an adaptation for grass consumption or for foraging in open habitat? (2008, background): “The reason seems to be that an increase in tooth crown height represents an adaptation against tooth wear resulting from an abrasive diet consisting primarily of grasses with abundant silica-rich phytoliths, which represent 3–5% of dry matter in grass forage species (Van Valen, 1960; Brizuela, Detli”
Evolution of hypsodonty in equids: testing a hypothesis of adaptation (2006, background): “It is also not clear to what extent fiber content and/or toughness of food material affects tooth wear (which depends mainly on differences in hardness [Lucas et al. 2000]).”
Feeding ecology and chewing mechanics in hoofed mammals: 3D tribology of enamel wear (2013, background): “Therefore, the main functional challenge is to induce fracture in the anisotropic, composite structure of the cell wall [23].”
The Role of Dust, Grit and Phytoliths in Tooth Wear (2014, background): “If the aim is to deter an invertebrate from walking across a surface, then sharp elongate phytoliths, as found in trichomes, thorns and spikes, will do this (Lucas et al. 2000).”
Mechanical and Nutritional Properties of Food as Factors in Platyrrhine Dietary Adaptations (2009, background): “Seeds ranked relatively high in ME due to their high lipid levels, but are challenging resources since they are often protected mechanically (see above; Kiltie 1982; Lucas et al. 2000) or chemically (e.g., Waterman and Kool 1994; Guimarães et al. 2003).”
Design and mechanical properties of insect cuticle. (2004, background): “Wood, plant leaves and seeds are commonly hard, either because they are dense and dry or because they are reinforced by silica or calcium oxalate monohydrate crystals (Finley, 1999; Lucas et al., 2000).”