Herbivory

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A gain-of-function polymorphism controlling complex traits and fitness in nature. 
  • Antagonistic selection and pleiotropy constrain the evolution of plant chemical defenses. 
  • Aridity weakens population-level effects of multiple species interactions on Hibiscus meyeri . 
  • Bamboo Specialists from Two Mammalian Orders (Primates, Carnivora) Share a High Number of Low-Abundance Gut Microbes. 
  • Biogeographic consequences of nutrient enrichment for plant-herbivore interactions in coastal wetlands. 
  • Consumer regulation of the carbon cycle in coastal wetland ecosystems. 
  • Costs of resistance and correlational selection in the multiple-herbivore community of Solanum carolinense. 
  • Diet and dental topography in pitheciine seed predators. 
  • Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut microbiome. 
  • Differential adaptation to a harsh granite outcrop habitat between sympatric Mimulus species. 
  • Ecological factors influence balancing selection on leaf chemical profiles of a wildflower. 
  • Evolution of resistance to a multiple-herbivore community: genetic correlations, diffuse coevolution, and constraints on the plant's response to selection. 
  • Evolutionary and phylogenetic insights from a nuclear genome sequence of the extinct, giant, "subfossil" koala lemur Megaladapis edwardsi. 
  • Fighting on two fronts: Elevated insect resistance in flooded maize. 
  • Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation. 
  • Herbivory and eutrophication mediate grassland plant nutrient responses across a global climatic gradient. 
  • Host Plant Choice Determined by Reproductive Interference between Closely Related Butterflies. 
  • Increased grassland arthropod production with mammalian herbivory and eutrophication: a test of mediation pathways. 
  • Jasmonate signaling and manipulation by pathogens and insects. 
  • Joint effects of nutrient addition and enemy exclusion on exotic plant success. 
  • Megafauna and ecosystem function from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene. 
  • Morning glory as a powerful model in ecological genomics: tracing adaptation through both natural and artificial selection. 
  • Natural enemies govern ecosystem resilience in the face of extreme droughts. 
  • Physical stress modifies top-down and bottom-up forcing on plant growth and reproduction in a coastal ecosystem. 
  • Phytochemical Shift from Condensed Tannins to Flavonoids in Transgenic Betula pendula Decreases Consumption and Growth but Improves Growth Efficiency of Epirrita autumnata Larvae. 
  • Plant species' origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands. 
  • Range-wide variations in common milkweed traits and their effect on monarch larvae. 
  • Spatial heterogeneity in species composition constrains plant community responses to herbivory and fertilisation. 
  • Tempo of trophic evolution and its impact on mammalian diversification. 
  • Testing the optimal defense hypothesis in nature: Variation for glucosinolate profiles within plants. 
  • The calmodulin-binding transcription factor SIGNAL RESPONSIVE1 is a novel regulator of glucosinolate metabolism and herbivory tolerance in Arabidopsis. 
  • The critical role of dietary foliage in maintaining the gut microbiome and metabolome of folivorous sifakas. 
  • The demographic consequences of mutualism: ants increase host-plant fruit production but not population growth. 
  • The relative influences of host plant genotype and yearly abiotic variability in determining herbivore abundance. 
  • Top-down control of foundation species recovery during coastal wetland restoration. 
  • Toward a trophic theory of species diversity. 
  • Variation in Plant Response to Herbivory Underscored by Functional Traits. 
  • Vertebrate herbivory impacts seedling recruitment more than niche partitioning or density-dependent mortality. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Mitchell-Olds, Thomas, Newman Ivey White Distinguished Professor of Biology, Biology