Error management in plant allocation to herbivore defense
- PMID: 26138386
- DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.06.005
Error management in plant allocation to herbivore defense
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: consumer; error bias; error management theory; induced defense; plant–herbivore ecology.
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