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    Response of winter chemical defense in Alaska paper birch and green alder to manipulation of plant carbon/nutrient balance (1987)
    Springer
    Oecologia 72 (1987), S. 510-514 
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    ISSN: 1432-1939
    Keywords: Snowshoe hare ; Birch ; Alder ; Chemical defense ; Plant carbon/nutrient balance
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary Plant carbon/nutrient balance has been implicated as an important factor in plant defensive chemistry and palatability to herbivores. We tested this hypothesis by fertilizing juvenile growth form Alaska paper birch and green alder with N, P and N-plus-P in a balanced 2x2 factorial experiment. Additionally, we shaded unfertilized plants of both species. Fertilization with N and N-plus-P increased growth of Alaska paper birch, reduced the concentration of papyriferic acid in internodes and increased the palatability of birch twigs to snowshoe hares. Shading decreased birch growth, decreased the concentration of papyriferic acid in internodes and increased twig palatability. These results indicate that the defensive chemistry and palatability of winter-dormant juvenile Alaska paper birch are sensitive to soil fertility and shade. Conversely the defensive chemistry and palatability of green alder twigs to snowshoe hares were not significantly affected by soil fertility or shade. The greater sensitivity of Alaska paper birch defensive chemistry and palatability to snowshoe hares in comparison to green alder is in agreement with the hypothesis that early successional woody plants that are adapted to high resource availability are more plastic in their chemical responses to the physical environment than are species from less favorable environments.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00378975
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    Germacrone defends labrador tea from browsing by snowshoe hares (1990)
    Springer
    Journal of chemical ecology 16 (1990), S. 1961-1970 
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    ISSN: 1573-1561
    Keywords: Labrador tea ; Ledum groenlandicum ; snowshoe hare ; Lepus americanus ; herbivore ; plant chemical defense ; germacrone
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract Labrador tea (Ledum groenlandicum), a slow-growing late successional evergreen, is highly unpalatable to snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus). Germacrone, a sesquiterpene that is the major component of the essential oil ofL. groenlandicum, was shown by bioassay to be a potent antifeedant to hares. Its concentrations in leaves and intemodes of the plant are high enough to defendL. groenlandicum from hares. This chemical defense of Labrador tea from herbivory is consistent with the resource availability theory of antiherbivore defense.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01020508
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