PART OF A SPECIAL ISSUE ON SEEDLING HERBIVORY Demographic consequences of chromatic leaf defence in tropical tree communities: do red young leaves increase growth and survival?
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Simon A. Queenborough1,*, Margaret R. Metz2, Renato Valencia3 and S. Joseph Wright4 Department of Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA, Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA, Laboratory of Plant Ecology, School of Biological Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama * For correspondence. E-mail [email protected]
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Demographic consequences of chromatic leaf defence in tropical tree communities: do red young leaves increase growth and survival?
BACKGROUND Many tropical forest tree species delay greening their leaves until full expansion. This strategy is thought to provide newly flushing leaves with protection against damage by herbivores by keeping young leaves devoid of nutritive value. Because young leaves suffer the greatest predation from invertebrate herbivores, delayed greening could prevent costly tissue loss. Many species tha...
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