Overlaps and trade‐offs in the diversity and inducibility of volatile chemical profiles among diverse sympatric neotropical canopy trees

• Published in: Plant, cell and environment Vol. 46; no. 10; pp. 3059 - 3071
• Main Author: Frost, Christopher J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.10.2023
• Subjects: Amazonia; Biodiversity; Business competition; Canopies; canopy; Chemical defense; Coexistence; Emissions; environment; Farnesene; forest canopy; forests; herbivores; Herbivory; inducible defence; Leaves; Linalool; Metabolites; Methyl jasmonate; neotropical forest; Neotropics; Ocimene; Organic compounds; Ozone; Phylogeny; Phytochemicals; phytochemistry; plant defence; Plant diversity; Plant hormones; Plant species; plant volatiles; Production costs; Sympatric populations; sympatry; Trees; Tropical forests; VOCs; Volatile organic compounds; Amazonia; neotropical forest; biodiversity; plant defence; plant volatiles; inducible defence; methyl jasmonate; forest canopy; phytochemistry

A central goal in ecology is to understand the mechanisms by which biological diversity is maintained. The diversity of plant chemical defences and the strategies by which they are deployed in nature may influence biological diversity. Trees in neotropical forests are subject to relatively high herb...