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defense escalation hypothesis: a standalone construct

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Plant-insect ecology

the prediction that plant defensive traits increase in strength through evolutionary time as lineages diversify under herbivore pressure.

In plant-insect ecology, defense escalation hypothesis refers to the prediction that plant defensive traits increase in strength through evolutionary time as lineages diversify under herbivore pressure. This meaning comes from Agrawal (2008) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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Agrawal, A. A., & Fishbein, M. (2008). Phylogenetic escalation and decline of plant defense strategies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(29), 10057-10060. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0802368105

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