Center for Applied Mathematics, Sage Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
Trends Ecol Evol. 1990 Dec;5(12):407-10. doi: 10.1016/0169-5347(90)90025-9.
Defensive morphologies, chemicals and behaviors induced by cues from consumers or competitors have been described in numerous organisms. Much work has focused on the costs of defenses and the actual cues used. Here, we review recent progress in determining the effects of inducible defenses on consumers and the cues implicated in inducing defenses against consumers and competitors, thereby laying the groundwork for studying the implications of inducible defenses for the dynamics of foraging, population size and evolution.
防御形态、化学物质和行为可以通过消费者或竞争者发出的线索来诱导，这在众多生物中都有描述。大量工作集中在防御的成本和实际使用的线索上。在这里，我们回顾了最近在确定诱导防御对消费者的影响以及诱导防御针对消费者和竞争者的线索方面的进展，从而为研究诱导防御对觅食动态、种群大小和进化的影响奠定了基础。
