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  "abstract": "Islands with contrasting herbivore histories provide a natural framework to investigate the evolution of plant defenses. Theory predicts that on islands with historically intense vertebrate herbivory, juveniles maintain strong defenses while adults may reduce them once out of reach, whereas islands lacking vertebrate browsers show minimal ontogenetic differences and generally lower defenses.\n\nAlternatively, when extinct herbivores were particularly large, selection might also favor stronger adult defenses. Despite these theoretical expectations, empirical tests across multiple island systems remain scarce. In this study, we quantified leaf physical, chemical, and nutritional traits related to resistance and palatability in juvenile and adult individuals of 60 woody plant species across 33 families from six archipelagos: three with extinct large herbivores (New Zealand, New Caledonia, Mauritius) and three without vertebrate browsers (the Canary Islands, Azores, Channel Islands of California). We found that species from islands with historical herbivory exhibited overall lower defenses, with trait expression strongly shaped by ontogeny. Adults displayed higher phenolic",
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    {
      "name": "Xoaquín Moreira"
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    {
      "name": "Luis Abdala‐roberts"
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    {
      "name": "Cláudia Baider"
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    {
      "name": "Kevin C Burns"
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    {
      "name": "Lydia S Dean"
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    {
      "name": "F B Vincent Florens"
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    {
      "name": "Cristina González‐montelongo"
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    {
      "name": "Sierra N Hellwitz"
    },
    {
      "name": "Thomas Ibanez"
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    {
      "name": "Beatriz Lago‐núñez"
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    {
      "name": "Sofía Martínez"
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    {
      "name": "Carla Pastoriza"
    },
    {
      "name": "Silvia Portela"
    },
    {
      "name": "María José Ramírez"
    },
    {
      "name": "Nereida M Rancel‐rodríguez"
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    {
      "name": "Irene Virseda"
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    {
      "name": "Kailen A Mooney"
    }
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  "doi": "10.1002/ecy.70460",
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  "pdf_url": "https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-05735491/document",
  "pmcid": null,
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  "published": "2026-09-02",
  "publisher": "Ecological Society of America",
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  "title": "Historical vertebrate herbivory drives ontogenetic shifts in plant defense across oceanic islands",
  "title_text": "Historical vertebrate herbivory drives ontogenetic shifts in plant defense across oceanic islands",
  "type": "peer-reviewed",
  "updated_at": "2026-10-30T12:17:24Z",
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