Autumn leaf colouration: a new hypothesis involving plant–ant mutualism via aphidsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 95 - Trang 671-676 - 2008
Kazuo Yamazaki
Several recent hypotheses on the adaptive significance of autumn leaf colours have focused on specialist aphids. However, these hypotheses have overlooked several factors: the preferential investment by healthy vigorous trees in growth rather than defence against herbivores, variation among aphid species in their responses to bright autumn leaves and plant defences and the occurrence of tritrophic...... hiện toàn bộ