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Geographical diversification of growth-defense strategies in an invasive plant

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Interactions between herbivore pressure and resource availability may result in growth-defense trade-offs in plants (resource availability hypothesis),which promote the potential for ecological diversification and have recently been proposed as a new mechanism of plant invasion (resource-enemy release hypothesis).In the present study,we tested this idea by comparing patterns of maximum growth rate and antiherbivore defense capacity against Agasicles hygrophila (a specialist phytophagous insect on Alternanthera philoxeroides) among six morphs of A.philoxeroides from both native (Argentina) and introduced (US and China) ranges.The results revealed that herbivore resistance consistently exhibited a significant trade-off against the growth rate of A.philoxeroides.Compared with native morphs in Argentina,introduced morphs generally exhibited a higher growth rate and lower defense.The results demonstrate that the combination of flea beetle pressure and resource availability facilitates geographical divergence of A.philoxeroides,and that release from natural specialists and increased resource availability may interact to contribute to its successful invasion.

Agasicles hygrophilaAlternanthera philoxeroides (alligator weed)growth-defense trade-offresource availability hypothesis

Xiao-Yun PAN、Xin JIA、Dong-Jing FU、Bo LI

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Coastal Ecosystems Research Station of Yangtze River Estuary, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity, Science and Ecological Engineering, Institute of Biodiversity Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China

This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaThis research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China

310703691131070417

2013

10.1111/j.1759-6831.2012.00239.x

植物分类学报
中国科学院植物研究所　中国植物学会

植物分类学报

CSTPCDCSCDSCI
影响因子：0.322
ISSN：1674-4918
年,卷(期)：2013.51(3)
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