Every bite an herbivore takes comes at the expense of a plant. Are plants passive victims or do they actively resist these attacks? Some plants avoid herbivory by decreasing their apparency or ...

Spiders are declining in livestock-grazed areas, while ticks and mites are increasing. This change affects ecosystems and ...

When the 'wood-wide web' was first described in the journal Nature in 1997, our view of plant life took on a utopian glean.

Whether they are 'true omnivores' that require both plant and prey resources to complete their life-cycle, 'herbivores' that occasionally or incidentally consume prey, or 'predators' that drink ...

Almost 400,000 plant species exist, and every one of them is threatened by organisms ranging in size from microscopic fungi ...

One ramification of the ERH is that invasive plants sustain less herbivore pressure than do native species. Empirical studies testing the ERH have mostly involved two-way comparisons between invasive ...

"Plants can gain a benefit from dishonest signaling because it harms their local competitors, by tricking them into investing in costly herbivore defence mechanisms," lead author Thomas Scott, an ...

explored the complex ecological interactions between herbivore dung and plant communities, providing new insights into the role of nutrients and microbial communities in ecosystems. The study is ...

They hunt and eat other animals such as zebras, buffalos and antelopes. Animals that eat plants are called herbivores. As they eat a diet of grass and clover, cows are classed as herbivores.

In two new papers, Cornell plant-herbivore experts and researchers from the Cornell Institute for Computational Sustainability joined forces to show the significant impacts of herbivores like sea ...