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The materials listed here have been authored or co-authored by faculty members currently or formerly associated with Cornell's Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. Selected by faculty themselves, they represent only a portion of materials authored by them, where no copyright restrictions exist. For a more recent and complete list of publications, please visit the respective EEB Faculty web pages.
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EEB Papers - Anurag Agrawal
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A selection of scholarly publications authored or co-authored by Robert Howarth
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Transgenerational Consequences of Plant Responses to Herbivory: An Adaptive Maternal Effect
(University of Chicago Press, 2000-12-21)Herbivory has many effects on plants, ranging from shifts in primary processes such as photosynthesis, growth, and phenology to effects on defense against subsequent herbivores and other species interactions. In this study, ... -
The raison d'etre of chemical ecology
(Ecological Society of America, 2015-03-01)Chemical ecology is a mechanistic approach to understanding the causes and consequences of species interactions, distribution, abundance, and diversity. The promise of chemical ecology stems from its potential to provide ... -
Toward a Predictive Framework for Convergent Evolution: Integrating Natural History, Genetic Mechanisms, and Consequences for the Diversity of Life
(University of Chicago Press, 2017-08)A charm of biology as a scientific discipline is the diversity of life. Although this diversity can make laws of biology challenging to discover, several repeated patterns and general principles govern evolutionary ... -
The importance of plant genotype and contemporary evolution for terrestrial ecosystem processes
(Ecological Society of America, 2015-10-01)Plant genetic variation and evolutionary dynamics are predicted to impact ecosystem processes but these effects are poorly understood. Here we test the hypothesis that plant genotype and contemporary evolution influence ... -
The Benefits of Induced Defenses Against Herbivores
(Ecological Society of America, 1997-07-01)Previous explanations for the evolution of induced resistance of plants to herbivory emphasized arguments based on saving costs when allocations to defense were not needed; these models met with limited empirical support. ... -
Tests of the coupled expression of latex and cardenolide plant defense in common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
(Ecological Society of America, 2014-10-21)The coexpression of plant resistance traits suggests the hypothesis that they may have complementary functions in defense against herbivory. To address the extent to which defensive traits are necessarily coupled in plants ... -
Spillover of a biological control agent (Chrysolina quadrigemina) onto native St. Johnswort (Hypericum punctatum)
(PeerJ, 2016-03-31)Biological control agents may have unintended effects on native biota, particularly species that are closely related to the target invader. Here, we explored how Chrysolina quadrigemina, a beetle introduced to control the ... -
Resistance and susceptibility of milkweed: competition, root herbivory, and plant genetic variation
(Ecological Society of America, 2004-08-01)Beetles in the genus Tetraopes share a long evolutionary history with milkweeds (Asclepias spp.), feeding on roots as larvae and leaves as adults. Despite their extreme specialization on milkweed, Tetraopes require drying ... -
Salicylate-mediated interactions between pathogens and herbivores
(Ecological Society of America, 2010-01-01)Plants employ hormone?mediated signaling pathways to defend against pathogens and insects. We tested predictions about the relative effect of jasmonate and salicylate pathways and how they mediate interactions between ... -
Relative Selectivity of Plant Cardenolides for Na+/K+-ATPases From the Monarch Butterfly and Non-resistant Insects
(Frontiers Media, 2018-09-28)A major prediction of coevolutionary theory is that plants may target particular herbivores with secondary compounds that are selectively defensive. The highly specialized monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) copes well ...
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