Sentence examples for enemy hypothesis from inspiring English sources

In addition, the natural enemy hypothesis (Root 1973; Russell 1989) suggests that more diverse plant assemblages provide natural enemies with more complementary resources and habitats, thereby promoting top-down regulation of herbivores (Guyot et al. 2015).

This notion has been termed the Enemy hypothesis [ 2].

Phylogenetic evidence exists that supports the Enemy hypothesis, in particular with regard to gall morphology [ 15].

Our data support the Enemy hypothesis insofar that high levels of gall secondary metabolites confer protection against natural enemies.

We used a panel of populations of Staphylococcus aureus that were experimentally selected for resistance to a suite of individual AMPs and antibiotics to investigate the 'arming the enemy' hypothesis.

Major hypotheses on the adaptive significance of insect gall formation have been reviewed by Price et al. (1987); these being nonadaptive, plant protections, mutual benefit, nutrition, microenvironment, and enemy hypotheses.

"The natural enemies hypothesis has dominated thinking in this field for a long time," he said.

Schuldt, A. et al. Predator diversity and abundance provide little support for the enemies hypothesis in forests of high tree diversity.

The "enemies hypothesis" assumes that natural enemies of herbivores are likely to be more abundant in diverse plant communities providing higher prey and refuge diversity as well as additional resources including pollen and nectar.

Potentially, the lack of conformity of the response of herbivores to the "resource concentration hypothesis" and the "enemies hypothesis" may also have been due to shifts in the herbivore community structure from specialists to generalists.

Specific predictions arising from "nutrition" and "microenvironment" hypotheses tested in this study are outlined in Table 2 (along with those from the "enemies" hypothesis for context).