Plant defense against generalist herbivores in the forest understory: a phylogenetic comparison of native and invasive species

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• plant defense 100%
• generalist 69%
• understory 63%
• native species 63%
• invasive species 62%
• herbivore 62%
• phylogenetics 49%
• moth 26%
• defense 25%
• comparison 25%
• herbivory 15%
• carbon storage 14%
• lignin 14%
• palatability 9%
• woody plant 8%
• dry matter 7%
• facilitation 7%
• carbon 7%
• deciduous forest 7%
• cellulose 6%
• insect 6%
• allocation 5%
• Asia 5%
• North America 5%

Agriculture & Biology

• invasive species 60%
• understory 60%
• Lymantria dispar 59%
• Hyphantria cunea 55%
• leaf characteristics 54%
• herbivores 51%
• indigenous species 50%
• phylogeny 33%
• carbon sequestration 27%
• Hyphantria 23%
• leaves 21%
• lignin 19%
• leaf dry matter content 17%
• colonizing ability 15%
• carbon sinks 14%
• deciduous forests 13%
• palatability 13%
• woody plants 12%
• interspecific variation 11%
• cellulose 8%
• carbon 7%
• insects 7%
• nitrogen 6%