Plant feedbacks increase the temporal heterogeneity of soil moisture
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The hypothesis that grasses create greater levels of temporal heterogeneity of soil resources than do woody plants are tested using monocultures of five replicate species of both growth forms. Daily soil moisture measurements taken 10 and 30 cm beneath monocultures over a growing season showed that temporal heterogeneity was significantly greater under grasses than under woody plants.
Publication Name: Oikos
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0030-1299
Year: 2004
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Damage-induced changes in woody plants and their effects on insect herbivore performance: a meta-analysis
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A meta-analysis is conducted on the responses of the woody plants to natural or stimulated herbivore damage and insect herbivore performance on the control and damaged plants. The magnitude and direction of herbivore responses depended on the type of plant, the type of damage, the time interval between the damage and insect feeding, and the timing of the damage.
Publication Name: Oikos
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0030-1299
Year: 2004
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Specificity of induced plant responses to specialist herbivores of the common milkweed Asclepias syriaca
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The variations in plant responses to herbivore attack and their impacts on specialist herbivores are understood with the help of experiments conducted on the two specialist herbivores of the common milkweed. The specialist herbivores exhibit both specificity of elicitation in plant responses and specificity of effects in response to prior damage.
Publication Name: Oikos
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0030-1299
Year: 2004
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