Population-level variation in plant secondary chemistry, and the population biology of herbivores

Mark D. Hunter; Stephen B. Malcolm; Sue E. Hartley

Population-level variation in plant secondary chemistry, and the population biology of herbivores

Mark D. Hunter, Stephen B. Malcolm, Sue E. Hartley

Biology

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Abstract

Modern population ecology is becoming increasingly spatially-explicit. For insect hervibores, spatial variation in plant quality is a critical component of distribution and abundance. We argue that population-level measurements of phytochemical variation among individual plants has not kept pace with recent developments in population ecology. With examples from our own work, we demonstrate the importance of spatial variation in plant chemistry for insect herbivores, and suggest that phytochemistry should play a central role in the development of any spatially-based ecological theory.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	45-56
Number of pages	12
Journal	Chemoecology
Volume	7
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - Mar 1996

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