Abiotic environmental stresses can alter plant metabolism, leading to inhibition or promotion
of secondary metabolites. Although the crucial roles of these compounds in plant …

Shade, in ecological sense, is not merely a lack of light, but a multi-faceted phenomenon
that creates new and complex settings for community and ecosystem dynamics. Tolerating …

Plants frequently suffer attack from herbivores and microbial pathogens, and have evolved a
complex array of defence mechanisms to resist defoliation and disease. These include both …

Production of antiherbivore chemical defences is generally assumed to be costly in terms of
fitness, although some studies have failed to detect such costs. A convincing explanation is …

An important hypothesis for how plants respond to introduction to new ranges is the
evolution of increased competitive ability (EICA). EICA predicts that biogeographical release …

Radial increment analyses allow us to determine tree responses to weather and tree
competition, thus enabling the development of management strategies for adapting forest …

In many oak-rich temperate broadleaved forests of conservation value, high ungulate
browsing pressure restricts oak regeneration. We examined the protection of oak (Quercus …

Facilitative interactions among plants enable a species persist in stressful environments, but
its use as a restoration technique of plant cover in degraded man-made ecosystems …

Theoretical and empirical studies show that, when past or current herbivory is a reliable cue
of future attack and defenses are costly, defenses can be induced only when needed and …

Macrophytes play a keystone role in shallow aquatic ecosystems. In lakes, macrophytes
stabilize clear‐water conditions with high biodiversity and their decline can cause a shift to a …