Error management in plant allocation to herbivore defense

John L Orrock¹, Andy Sih², Maud C O Ferrari³, Richard Karban⁴, Evan L Preisser⁵, Michael J Sheriff⁶, Jennifer S Thaler⁷

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¹ Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. Electronic address: jorrock@wisc.edu.
² Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
³ Department of Biomedical Sciences, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
⁴ Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
⁵ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA.
⁶ Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
⁷ Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.

PMID: 26138386
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.06.005

Error management in plant allocation to herbivore defense

John L Orrock et al. Trends Ecol Evol. 2015 Aug.

. 2015 Aug;30(8):441-5.

doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.06.005. Epub 2015 Jun 29.

Authors

John L Orrock¹, Andy Sih², Maud C O Ferrari³, Richard Karban⁴, Evan L Preisser⁵, Michael J Sheriff⁶, Jennifer S Thaler⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. Electronic address: jorrock@wisc.edu.
² Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
³ Department of Biomedical Sciences, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
⁴ Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
⁵ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA.
⁶ Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
⁷ Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.

PMID: 26138386
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.06.005

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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