Herbivory

…biotic interactions (competition, herbivory) and intraspecific trait change drive heterogeneous responses of plant biodiversity to global change factors such as climate warming and nutrient enrichment — for example the role of seed banks in maintaining diversity, of competition for light, litter and loss of herb

Interactions between plants and herbivores shape much of life on land, influencing diversification, coexistence and the flow of energy through ecosystems, yet work from the genetic and physiological regulation of plant defences to landscape-scale patterns is often done in isolation. The 2027 Plant-Herbivore Interaction Gordon Research Conference, "Mechanistic Drivers and Ecological Consequences", focuses on the links: how genetic and chemical traits within plants alter herbivore decisions and performance, when these effects scale up to population dynamics and food-web structure, how environmen