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In particular, one large common garden experiment in Ontario using 15 pairs of old-field plant species found that introduced species had slightly more leaf damage than natives, not less as predicted by ERH (7.5% vs. 5.3%, on average) [52].

Further, replicating such an experiment in Swietenia's native range would strengthen any inferences [2] [5], as done by DeWalt et al. [14] for the invasive neotropical shrub Clidemia hirta (only) which had five times more leaf damage in its native than introduced range (Costa Rica and Hawaii, respectively).

A 'prophylactic' defense response makes sense considering that K-deficient plants display a number of features that makes them more attractive for herbivorous insects (e.g. increased levels of sugars and amino acids, less rigid cell walls etc.; [ 3]), and more sensitive to leaf damage (smaller leaf surface).

What's more, the diversity of the leaf damage returned to pre-impact levels more quickly than in North America, taking just four million years.

Seedlings from gut-passed seeds grew taller, had more leaves, and suffered less leaf damage than control seedlings in both damage surveys.

On the other hand, decreasing nectar secretion would lower the chance of pollination, which becomes even more essential in time of leaf damage or stress.

Given the many reports of avoidance of damaged plants or damage-induced volatiles by adult Lepidoptera [ 17, 18, 26, 31- 34], the opposite prediction is more likely to hold: reduced leaf damage in Bt crops will attract increased rates of oviposition.

The effect of leaf damage on the N content was more complicated (see Table 1, significant interactions).

A more aggressive pesticide treatment regime would have been necessary to abolish leaf damage in the treated group.

For each leaf, we calculated leaf damage by differentiating between mean percentage of damaged leaf area and mean number of holes (≥1 mm2) per leaf chewed by arthropods.

Leaf damage was greater in young relative to mature trees, suggesting that young trees harbour more herbivores than mature oaks, as seen in other tree species [13] [14].