Definitions
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- n. the consumption of living plant tissue by animals.
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Examples
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Finally, herbivory occurs when an animal uses a plant as food.
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In turns out that everything I saw in terms the herbivory of plants by animals was with insects for the simple reason that mammals are not present there.
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Importance of plant traits and herbivory for invasiveness of Phragmites australis (Poaceae).
Phragmites australis - cryptic invasion of the Common Reed in North America
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Plant traits that give the non-native a competitive edge may include extended photoperiod, greater leaf turnover and reduced susceptibility to herbivory.
Phragmites australis - cryptic invasion of the Common Reed in North America
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If one species changes its phenology more than another, will this then increase or decrease the effects of competition, herbivory, predation, parasitism, etc.?
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Further information: Plant defense against herbivory
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Mammalian herbivory in terrestrial environments. in C.M. Herrera and O. Pellmyr, editors.
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Enhanced carbon dioxide concentrations and ultraviolet-B radiation levels affect plant tissue chemistry and thereby have subtle but long-term impacts on ecosystem processes that reduce nutrient cycling and have the potential to decrease productivity and increase or decrease herbivory.
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Overgrazing is herbivory (animal comsumption of plants) that extracts an unsustainable yield of floral biomass from an ecosystem; however, the term is most often applied to the actions of wild or domesticated ungulates.
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Unfortunately, little information about the impacts of increased CO2 concentrations on herbivory is available for the Arctic.
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