Does the whistling thorn acacia (Acacia drepanolobium) use auditory aposematism to deter mammalian herbivores?. (2nd August 2016)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- Does the whistling thorn acacia (Acacia drepanolobium) use auditory aposematism to deter mammalian herbivores?. (2nd August 2016)
- Main Title:
- Does the whistling thorn acacia (Acacia drepanolobium) use auditory aposematism to deter mammalian herbivores?
- Authors:
- Lev-Yadun, Simcha
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: Auditory signaling including aposematism characterizes many terrestrial animals. Auditory aposematism by which certain animals use auditory aposematic signals to fend off enemies is well known for instance in rattlesnakes. Auditory signaling by plants toward animals and other plants is an emerging area of plant biology that still suffers from limited amount of solid data. Here I propose that auditory aposematism operates in the African whistling thorn acacia ( Acacia drepanolobium = Vachellia drepanolobium ). In this tree, the large and hollow thorn bases whistle when wind blows. This type of aposematism compliments the well-known conspicuous thorn and mutualistic ant based aposematism during day and may operate during night when the conspicuous thorns are invisible.
- Is Part Of:
- Plant signaling & behavior. Volume 11:Number 8(2016)
- Journal:
- Plant signaling & behavior
- Issue:
- Volume 11:Number 8(2016)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 11, Issue 8 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 8
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0011-0008-0000
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- Page End:
- Publication Date:
- 2016-08-02
- Subjects:
- Acacia -- ants -- aposematism -- auditory -- defense -- extended phenotype -- herbivory -- thorn
Plant ecophysiology -- Periodicals
Plant cellular signal transduction -- Periodicals
Plant cellular signal transduction
Plant ecophysiology
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http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/kpsb20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/15592324.2016.1207035 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1559-2316
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