Geographic mosaic of plant evolution: extrafloral nectary variation mediated by ant and herbivore assemblages.

Herbivory is an ecological process that is known to generate different patterns of selection on defensive plant traits across populations. Studies on this topic could greatly benefit from the general framework of the Geographic Mosaic Theory of Coevolution (GMT). Here, we hypothesize that herbivory...

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Main Authors: Anselmo Nogueira, Pedro J Rey, Julio M Alcántara, Rodrigo M Feitosa, Lúcia G Lohmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0123806