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bioassays with the insect herbivores Spodoptera littoralis and Agriotes spp.
A plant's defensive ability against herbivore attack can be influenced by many different factors, one of them being domestication. During human selection to improve the yield of plants, the resistance against herbivore attack can have been lowered, due to a trade-off for use of …
… vigilance. Furthermore, there is a variation in feeding niches with different herbivores focusing their foraging effort on different vegetation types which is also expected to affect the choice of habitat. Behavioral data on anti-predation and foraging behavior at on waterhole …
Horses are herbivores that spend almost all day grazing. While grazing they are infected by different endoparasites through ingestion of infective eggs or larvae on pasture. The most significant equine endoparasites in Sweden are the equine roundworm Parascaris equorum, small …
… on environmental factors, e.g. food supply, protective vegetation for the herbivores and predator populations.
… largely due to the fact that all the surveyed stands were fenced to prevent herbivores from browsing on the young cherry saplings. The conclusion from this survey is that cherry tree establishment requires control of competing vegetation. Given the right circumstances the growth …
