Optimal defense theory explains deviations from latitudinal herbivory defense hypothesis

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• herbivory 100%
• defense 78%
• plant defense 27%
• growing season 25%
• herbivore 17%
• cline 15%
• spatial variation 9%
• flowering 6%
• genetic variation 6%
• population structure 6%
• garden 5%
• cost 5%
• trade-off 5%
• fitness 5%
• life history 5%
• allocation 4%
• transect 4%
• sampling 3%
• resource 3%
• prediction 2%
• experiment 2%
• temperature 2%
• effect 1%

Agriculture & Biology

• herbivores 71%
• growing season 30%
• phenylpropanoids 25%
• glycosides 20%
• spatial variation 16%
• Erythranthe guttata 11%
• resource allocation 8%
• flowering time 8%
• gardens 7%
• population structure 6%
• life history 6%
• prediction 5%
• genetic variation 4%
• temperature 3%
• testing 2%
• sampling 2%