Woody plant secondary chemicals increase in response to abundant deer and arrival of invasive plants in suburban forests
Plants in suburban forests of eastern North America face the dual stressors of high white-tailed deer density and invasion by nonindigenous plants. Chronic deer herbivory combined with strong competition from invasive plants could alter a plant's stress- and defense-related secondary chemistry,...
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
2022
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