Title: | Error management in plant allocation to herbivore defense |
Author(s): | Orrock JL; Sih A; Ferrari MC; Karban R; Preisser EL; Sheriff MJ; Thaler JS; |
Address: | "Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. Electronic address: jorrock@wisc.edu. Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis, CA, USA. Department of Biomedical Sciences, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada. Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA. Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA. Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA" |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.tree.2015.06.005 |
ISSN/ISBN: | 1872-8383 (Electronic) 0169-5347 (Linking) |
Abstract: | "Herbivores can greatly reduce plant fitness. Error management theory (EMT) predicts the evolution of adaptive plant defensive strategies that err towards making less-costly errors so as to avoid making rare, costly errors. EMT provides a common framework for understanding observed levels of variation in plant defense among and within species" |
Keywords: | Biological Evolution *Herbivory *Plant Physiological Phenomena Plants/chemistry/*parasitology Species Specificity consumer error bias error management theory induced defense plant-herbivore ecology; |
Notes: | "MedlineOrrock, John L Sih, Andy Ferrari, Maud C O Karban, Richard Preisser, Evan L Sheriff, Michael J Thaler, Jennifer S eng England 2015/07/04 Trends Ecol Evol. 2015 Aug; 30(8):441-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.06.005. Epub 2015 Jun 29" |