Juan Núñez-Farfán, Sabina Velázquez-Márquez, Jesús R Torres-García, Ivan M De-la-Cruz, Juan Arroyo, Pedro L Valverde, César M Flores-Ortiz, Luis B Hernández-Portilla, Diana E López-Cobos, Javier D Matías
When colonizing new ranges, plant populations may benefit from the absence of the checks imposed by the enemies, herbivores, and pathogens that regulated their numbers in their original range. Therefore, rates of plant damage or infestation by natural enemies are expected to be lower in the new range. Exposing both non-native and native plant populations in the native range, where native herbivores are present, can be used to test whether resistance mechanisms have diverged between populations. Datura stramonium is native to the Americas but widely distributed in Spain, where populations show lower herbivore damage than populations in the native range...
January 2, 2024: Plants (Basel, Switzerland)