Elevational gradients in plant defences and insect herbivory: recent advances in the field and prospects for future research

A global analysis of elevational gradients in leaf herbivory and its underlying drivers: Effects of plant growth form, leaf habit and climatic correlates

(2017) Andrea Galmán et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Higher predation risk for insect prey at low latitudes and elevations

(2017) Tomas Roslin et al.   SCIENCE

Biotic and abiotic factors associated with altitudinal variation in plant traits and herbivory in a dominant oak species

(2016) Luis Abdala-Roberts et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Genetically based latitudinal clines in Artemisia californica drive parallel clines in arthropod communities

(2016) Jessica D. Pratt et al.   ECOLOGY

Community-level plant palatability increases with elevation as insect herbivore abundance declines

(2016) Patrice Descombes et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The simultaneous inducibility of phytochemicals related to plant direct and indirect defences against herbivores is stronger at low elevation

(2016) Loïc Pellissier et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Community-level relaxation of plant defenses against herbivores at high elevation

(2016) Kristine Callis-Duehl et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Region effects influence local tree species diversity

(2016) Robert E. Ricklefs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sex-specific responses to climate change in plants alter population sex ratio and performance

(2016) W. K. Petry et al.   SCIENCE

Sources of Controversy Surrounding Latitudinal Patterns in Herbivory and Defense

(2016) Daniel N. Anstett et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A Framework for Predicting Intraspecific Variation in Plant Defense

(2016) Philip G. Hahn et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Trade-off among different anti-herbivore defence strategies along an altitudinal gradient

(2016) Tomáš Dostálek et al.   AoB Plants

Ant predation on herbivores through a multitrophic lens: how effects of ants on plant herbivore defense and natural enemies vary along temperature gradients

(2016) G Rodríguez-Castañeda et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Plant neighborhood effects on herbivory: damage is both density and frequency dependent

(2015) Tania N. Kim et al.   ECOLOGY

Abiotic mediation of a mutualism drives herbivore abundance

(2015) Emily H. Mooney et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Effects of elevation and nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization on plant defence compounds in subarctic tundra heath vegetation

(2015) Jonathan R. De Long et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Novel competitors shape species’ responses to climate change

(2015) Jake M. Alexander et al.   NATURE

Is there a trade-off between glucosinolate-based organic and inorganic defences in a metal hyperaccumulator in the field?

(2015) Ardeshir Kazemi-Dinan et al.   OECOLOGIA

Herbivore damage increases avian and ant predation of caterpillars on trees along a complete elevational forest gradient in Papua New Guinea

(2014) K. Sam et al.   ECOGRAPHY

High elevationPlantago lanceolataplants are less resistant to herbivory than their low elevation conspecifics: is it just temperature?

(2014) Loïc Pellissier et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Loss of adaptive variation during evolutionary responses to climate change

(2014) James Buckley et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Trade-offs between constitutive and induced defences drive geographical and climatic clines in pine chemical defences

(2014) Xoaquín Moreira et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Changes in host-parasitoid food web structure with elevation

(2014) Sarah C. Maunsell et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Differential allocation and deployment of direct and indirect defences byVicia sepiumalong elevation gradients

(2014) Sergio Rasmann et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Genetically based latitudinal variation inArtemisia californicasecondary chemistry

(2014) Jessica D. Pratt et al.   OIKOS

Shifts in flowering phenology reshape a subalpine plant community

(2014) Paul J. CaraDonna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Herbivore diet breadth mediates the cascading effects of carnivores in food webs

(2014) Michael S. Singer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Conceptual Framework for Associational Effects: When Do Neighbors Matter and How Would We Know?

(2014) Nora Underwood et al.   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Community and Ecosystem Responses to Elevational Gradients: Processes, Mechanisms, and Insights for Global Change

(2013) Maja K. Sundqvist et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Evolutionary and plastic responses to climate change in terrestrial plant populations

(2013) Steven J. Franks et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Climate-driven change in plant-insect interactions along elevation gradients

(2013) Sergio Rasmann et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Partitioning net interactions among plants along altitudinal gradients to study community responses to climate change

(2013) Richard Michalet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Clinal adaptation and adaptive plasticity inArtemisia californica: implications for the response of a foundation species to predicted climate change

(2013) Jessica D. Pratt et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate-Induced Elevational Range Shifts and Increase in Plant Species Richness in a Himalayan Biodiversity Epicentre

(2013) Yasmeen Telwala et al.   PLoS One

Temperature-driven range expansion of an irruptive insect heightened by weakly coevolved plant defenses

(2013) K. F. Raffa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution of a genetic polymorphism with climate change in a Mediterranean landscape

(2013) J. Thompson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A meta-analytical review of the effects of elevated CO2 on plant-arthropod interactions highlights the importance of interacting environmental and biological variables

(2012) Emily A. Robinson et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

On a collision course: competition and dispersal differences create no-analogue communities and cause extinctions during climate change

(2012) M. C. Urban et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Specialist versus generalist insect herbivores and plant defense

(2012) Jared G. Ali et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Shifts in species richness, herbivore specialization, and plant resistance along elevation gradients

(2012) Loïc Pellissier et al.   Ecology and Evolution

A quantitative evaluation of major plant defense hypotheses, nature versus nurture, and chemistry versus ants

(2011) Tara Joy Massad et al.   Arthropod-Plant Interactions

Global assessment of experimental climate warming on tundra vegetation: heterogeneity over space and time

(2011) Sarah C. Elmendorf et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The latitudinal herbivory-defence hypothesis takes a detour on the map

(2011) Marc T. J. Johnson et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Environmental and genetic control of insect abundance and herbivory along a forest elevational gradient

(2011) Lucas A. Garibaldi et al.   OECOLOGIA

Rapid Range Shifts of Species Associated with High Levels of Climate Warming

(2011) I.-C. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

Weighing Defensive and Nutritive Roles of Ant Mutualists Across a Tropical Altitudinal Gradient

(2010) Genoveva Rodríguez-Castañeda et al.   BIOTROPICA

Tropical forests are not flat: how mountains affect herbivore diversity

(2010) Genoveva Rodríguez-Castañeda et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Identifying factors determining the altitudinal distribution of the invasive pest leafminersLiriomyza huidobrensisandLiriomyza sativae

(2010) Warsito Tantowijoyo et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

Assessing the evidence for latitudinal gradients in plant defence and herbivory

(2010) Angela T. Moles et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Plant traits that predict resistance to herbivores

(2010) Diego Carmona et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The multiple faces of indirect defences and their agents of natural selection

(2010) André Kessler et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The ecology and evolution of induced resistance against herbivores

(2010) Richard Karban   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Direct and indirect root defences of milkweed (Asclepias syriaca): trophic cascades, trade-offs and novel methods for studying subterranean herbivory

(2010) Sergio Rasmann et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Spatial heterogeneity in the relative impacts of foliar quality and predation pressure on red oak, Quercus rubra, arthropod communities

(2010) Caralyn B. Zehnder et al.   OECOLOGIA

Is There a Latitudinal Gradient in the Importance of Biotic Interactions?

(2009) Douglas W. Schemske et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Associational Resistance and Associational Susceptibility: Having Right or Wrong Neighbors

(2009) Pedro Barbosa et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Latitudinal variation in herbivore pressure in Atlantic Coast salt marshes

(2009) Steven C. Pennings et al.   ECOLOGY

Elevational and Seasonal Variation in the Foliar Quality and Arthropod Community ofAcer pensylvanicum

(2009) Caralyn B. Zehnder et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Variation in the abundance of invertebrate predators of the green spruce aphid Elatobium abietinum (Walker) (Homoptera: Aphididae) along an altitudinal transect

(2009) N.A. Straw et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The evolution of antiherbivore defenses and their contribution to species coexistence in the tropical tree genus Inga

(2009) T. A. Kursar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The niche, limits to species' distributions, and spatiotemporal variation in demography across the elevation ranges of two monkeyflowers

(2009) A. L. Angert   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Macroevolution and the biological diversity of plants and herbivores

(2009) D. J. Futuyma et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Indirect defence via tritrophic interactions

(2008) Martin Heil   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Dispersal and seed limitation affect diversity and productivity of montane grasslands

(2008) Claudia Stein et al.   OIKOS

Global Warming, Elevational Range Shifts, and Lowland Biotic Attrition in the Wet Tropics

(2008) R. K. Colwell et al.   SCIENCE

Combined effects of climate and biotic interactions on the elevational range of a phytophagous insect

(2007) Richard M. Merrill et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY