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ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS
Volume 38, Issue -, Pages 541-566Publisher
ANNUAL REVIEWS
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.38.091206.095822
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herbivory; adaptive evolution; EES; plant defenses; mixed defense strategies; costs and benefits of defense
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Tolerance and resistance are two different plant defense strategies against herbivores. Empirical evidence in natural populations reveals that individual plants allocate resources simultaneously to both strategies, thus plants exhibit a mixed pattern of defense. In this review we examine the conditions that promote the evolutionary stability of mixed defense strategies in the light of available empirical and theoretical evidence. Given that plant tolerance and resistance are heritable and subject to environmentally dependent selection and genetic constraints, the joint evolution of tolerance and resistance is analyzed, with consideration of multiple species interactions and the plant mating system. The existence of mixed defense strategies in plants makes it necessary to re-explore the coevolutionary process between plants and herbivores, which centered historically on resistance as the only defensive mechanism. In addition, we recognize briefly the potential use of plant tolerance for pest management. Finally, we highlight unresolved issues for future development in this field of evolutionary ecology.
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