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Plant biologists long dismissed the importance of herbivorous insects in plant communities on the assumption that the amount of tissue they consume in non-outbreak years is inconsequential. In the last 15 years, the role of insects in driving the evolution of plant chemical and physical defenses has become appreciated. Other roles that insects may play are less well established: some feel that the impact of herbivores is small enough to ignore while others consider their affects on physiology, population and community dynamics as too important to dismiss.
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Morrow, P.A. (1984). Assessing the Effects of Herbivory. In: Medina, E., Mooney, H.A., Vázquez-Yánes, C. (eds) Physiological ecology of plants of the wet tropics. Tasks for vegetation Science, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7299-5_16
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