Insect pests are major problems for all crops, worldwide. In this review we will focus on
legumes, which are attacked by a range of insect pests including pod/seed feeders …

In this essay I summarize current trends in the evolutionary ecology of plant defence, while
advocating for approaches that integrate community ecology with specific tests of classic …

Plants may also be resistant to arthropods via the tolerance category of resistance, as
defined in Chapter 1, by possessing the ability to withstand or recover from damage caused …

Food relationships of Coccinellidae have always been actively studied, largely because of
the economic impact of most coccinellid species. Unfortunately the prey-predator …

Several prominent hypotheses have been posed to explain the immense variability among
plant species in defense against herbivores. A major concept in the evolutionary ecology of …

On the basis of physiological and ecological costs of defense allocation, most plant defense
theories predict the occurrence of trade-offs between resource investment in different types …

The dazzling variation in plant chemistry is a primary mediator of trophic interactions,
including herbivory, predation, parasitism, and disease. At the same time, such interactions …

This study assessed the role of leaf trichome density as a component of resistance to
herbivores, in six populations of Datura stramonium. Phenotypic selection on plant …

Abstract Solar UV‐B radiation (280–315 nm) has a significant influence on trophic
relationships in natural and managed ecosystems, affecting plant–insect interactions. We …

Nearly ten years ago, there was a call for synthesis in the debate on the relative
contributions of top-down and bottom-up forces to the population and community ecology of …