Forest ecosystems face a range of challenges in the coming decades, of which climate
change, pests and diseases are the most serious. These challenges will be overlaid on a …

Terrestrial molluscs are some of the most important herbivores in temperate habitats. They
tend to be generalists and can be serious pests in agricultural fields, particularly no-till fields …

Flowers emit a large variety of floral signals that play a fundamental role in the
communication of plants with their mutualists and antagonists. We investigated phenotypic …

A central issue in our understanding of the evolution of the diversity of plant secondary
metabolites (PSMs) is whether or not compounds are functional, conferring an advantage to …

Land mollusks are one of the most destructive agricultural pests worldwide, the
management of which depends on synthetic molluscicides. However, many of these …

Oleoresin produced and stored in pine tree leaves provides direct resistance to herbivores,
while leaf volatile terpenes (LVT) in the resin are also powerful airborne infochemicals …

Plant genotypes are known to affect performance of insect herbivores and the community
structure of both herbivores and higher trophic levels. Still, only a limited number of studies …

In natural environments, plants have to deal with a wide range of different herbivores whose
communities vary in time and space. It is believed that the chemical diversity within plant …

Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) provenances cover broad ecological amplitudes. In a
greenhouse study, we investigated the impact of drought stress and rewetting on gas …

Terpenes are a diverse group of plant secondary metabolites that mediate a plethora of
ecological interactions in many plant species. Despite increasing research into the genetic …