Journal
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY
Volume 39, Issue 4, Pages 465-480Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10886-013-0267-2
Keywords
Aquatic; Herbivore; Nutrient; Pharmacology; Plant secondary metabolite; Terrestrial; NIRS; Foraging
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Funding
- National Science Foundation [0827239, IOS-0817527, DEB-1146194]
- Australian Research Council [DP0986142]
- German Science Foundation DFG [CRC454]
- National Research Initiative of the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture [2007-35302-18351]
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems [0827239, GRANTS:13900747] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems [0817527] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Australian Research Council [DP0986142] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
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We describe some recent themes in the nutritional and chemical ecology of herbivores and the importance of a broad pharmacological view of plant nutrients and chemical defenses that we integrate as Pharm-ecology. The central role that dose, concentration, and response to plant components (nutrients and secondary metabolites) play in herbivore foraging behavior argues for broader application of approaches derived from pharmacology to both terrestrial and aquatic plant-herbivore systems. We describe how concepts of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics are used to better understand the foraging phenotype of herbivores relative to nutrient and secondary metabolites in food. Implementing these concepts into the field remains a challenge, but new modeling approaches that emphasize tradeoffs and the properties of individual animals show promise. Throughout, we highlight similarities and differences between the historic and future applications of pharm-ecological concepts in understanding the ecology and evolution of terrestrial and aquatic interactions between herbivores and plants. We offer several pharm-ecology related questions and hypotheses that could strengthen our understanding of the nutritional and chemical factors that modulate foraging behavior of herbivores across terrestrial and aquatic systems.
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