High elevation Plantago lanceolata plants are less resistant to herbivory than their low elevation conspecifics: is it just temperature?
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L. Pellissier, Univ. of Fribourg, Unit of Ecology and Evolution, Ch. du Musée 10, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland. – A. Roger, Research station Agroscope ACW Changins-Wädenswil, route de Duillier 50, CH-1260 Nyon, Switzerland. – J. Bilat and S. Rasmann ([email protected]), Dept of Ecology and Evolution, UNIL Sorge, Le Biophore, Univ. of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. Present address of SR: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
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