Supporting Information for “Induced Plant Defenses, Host-Pathogen Interactions, and Forest Insect Outbreaks”
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Induced plant defenses, host-pathogen interactions, and forest insect outbreaks.
Cyclic outbreaks of defoliating insects devastate forests, but their causes are poorly understood. Outbreak cycles are often assumed to be driven by density-dependent mortality due to natural enemies, because pathogens and predators cause high mortality and because natural-enemy models reproduce fluctuations in defoliation data. The role of induced defenses is in contrast often dismissed, becau...
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