Authors
Angela T Moles, Begoña Peco, Ian R Wallis, William J Foley, Alistair GB Poore, Eric W Seabloom, Peter A Vesk, Alejandro J Bisigato, Lucrecia Cella‐Pizarro, Connie J Clark, Philippe S Cohen, William K Cornwell, Will Edwards, Rasmus Ejrnæs, Therany Gonzales‐Ojeda, Bente J Graae, Gregory Hay, Fainess C Lumbwe, Benjamín Magaña‐Rodríguez, Ben D Moore, Pablo L Peri, John R Poulsen, James C Stegen, Ruan Veldtman, Hugo von Zeipel, Nigel R Andrew, Sarah L Boulter, Elizabeth T Borer, Johannes HC Cornelissen, Alejandro G Farji‐Brener, Jane L DeGabriel, Enrique Jurado, Line A Kyhn, Bill Low, Christa PH Mulder, Kathryn Reardon‐Smith, Jorge Rodríguez‐Velázquez, An De Fortier, Zheng Zheng, Pedro G Blendinger, Brian J Enquist, Jose M Facelli, Tiffany Knight, Jonathan D Majer, Miguel Martínez‐Ramos, Peter McQuillan, Francis KC Hui
Publication date
2013/4
Journal
New Phytologist
Volume
198
Issue
1
Pages
252-263
Description
- Most plant species have a range of traits that deter herbivores. However, understanding of how different defences are related to one another is surprisingly weak. Many authors argue that defence traits trade off against one another, while others argue that they form coordinated defence syndromes.
- We collected a dataset of unprecedented taxonomic and geographic scope (261 species spanning 80 families, from 75 sites across the globe) to investigate relationships among four chemical and six physical defences.
- Five of the 45 pairwise correlations between defence traits were significant and three of these were tradeoffs. The relationship between species’ overall chemical and physical defence levels was marginally nonsignificant (P = 0.08), and remained nonsignificant after accounting for phylogeny, growth form and abundance. Neither categorical principal component analysis (PCA) nor hierarchical cluster …
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AT Moles, B Peco, IR Wallis, WJ Foley, AGB Poore… - New Phytologist, 2013