Invasive plant species that experience lower herbivory pressure may evolve lower diversities of chemical defence compounds in the exotic range.
Sign Up to like & getrecommendations! Published in 2022 at "American journal of botany"
DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.16053
Abstract: PREMISE Invasive plant species often escape from specialist herbivore and are likely to experience herbivory mostly from generalist herbivores in the exotic range. Consequently, the Shifting Defence Hypothesis predicts that invasive plants will produce higher… read more here.
Keywords: exotic range; herbivory pressure; range; defence compounds ... See more keywords