Chemical novelty facilitates herbivore resistance and biological invasions in some introduced plant species

• Published in: Ecology and evolution Vol. 10; no. 16; pp. 8770 - 8792
• Main Authors: Sedio, Brian E., Devaney, John L., Pullen, Jamie, Parker, Geoffrey G., Wright, S. Joseph, Parker, John D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.08.2020; John Wiley and Sons Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: antiherbivore defense; Biological invasions; Censuses; Coastal plains; coexistence; Deer; Flowers & plants; forest ecology; Forests; Herbivores; Herbivory; Hypotheses; Indigenous plants; Indigenous species; Insects; Introduced species; Invasive plants; Invasive species; Mass spectrometry; Mass spectroscopy; Metabolites; Metabolomics; molecular network; Native species; Nonnative species; Original Research; Pathogens; Plant communities; Plant species introduction; Vegetation; United States > US; Maryland; molecular network; mass spectrometry; antiherbivore defense; coexistence; forest ecology; invasive species

Ecological release from herbivory due to chemical novelty is commonly predicted to facilitate biological invasions by plants, but has not been tested on a community scale. We used metabolomics based on mass spectrometry molecular networks to assess the novelty of foliar secondary chemistry of 15 inv...