Direct and apparent compensation in plant-herbivore interactions
The potential positive effects of herbivores on plants have been the subject of debates for decades. Whiletraditionally, herbivory was considered to have a negative impact on plants, some studies also reportedpossible mutualism between plants and herbivores. Plant defences, and in particular tolerance and resis-tance, seem to play an important role in shaping plant-herbivore interactions. The aim of this study isto show how a direct plant compensation mechanism translates into apparent compensation, i.e. thelong-term biomass response to herbivory, in simple plant-herbivore models. A special emphasis is thenput on how it interacts with resistance mechanisms. A qualitative study of the proposed models showsthat they can exhibit different plant-herbivore patterns, including neutral, antagonistic (negative appar-ent compensation) and mutualistic (positive apparent compensation) interactions. Moreover, it is shownthat density dependence plays a crucial role since, for a given system, the realized plant-herbivore pat-tern critically depends on the initial plant and herbivore levels. Our study shows the importance of directcompensation for the presence of plant-herbivore mutualism, a finding which we show, has significantimplications both in ecosystems ecology and in agricultural pest management.
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| Format: | article biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
| Subjects: | F01 - Culture des plantes, F40 - Écologie végétale, U10 - Informatique, mathématiques et statistiques, L02 - Alimentation animale, interactions biologiques, synergisme, herbivore, plante de culture, pâturages, protection des plantes, dynamique des populations, écologie, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_49896, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_16149, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3567, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1972, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_5626, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_5978, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6111, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2467, |
| Online Access: | http://agritrop.cirad.fr/573939/ http://agritrop.cirad.fr/573939/1/document_573939.pdf |
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