"Herbivory" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The act of feeding on plants by animals.
| Descriptor ID |
D060434
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.145.113.547.600 F01.145.407.758 G07.203.650.353.758
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| Concept/Terms |
Herbivory- Herbivory
- Herbivories
- Herbivore
- Herbivores
Animal Grazing- Animal Grazing
- Animal Grazings
- Grazing, Animal
- Grazings, Animal
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2021 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Herbivory" by people in Profiles.
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Elevated CO2, nutrition dilution, and shifts in Earth's insect abundance. Curr Opin Insect Sci. 2024 Oct; 65:101255.
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Trophic differences regulate grassland food webs: herbivores track food quality and predators select for habitat volume. Ecology. 2021 09; 102(9):e03453.
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How and why plant ionomes vary across North American grasslands and its implications for herbivore abundance. Ecology. 2021 10; 102(10):e03459.
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Quantitative genetics of phosphorus content in the freshwater herbivore, Daphnia pulicaria. J Anim Ecol. 2021 04; 90(4):909-916.
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Animal aggregations promote emergent aquatic plant production at the aquatic-terrestrial interface. Ecology. 2020 10; 101(10):e03126.
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The seventh macronutrient: how sodium shortfall ramifies through populations, food webs and ecosystems. Ecol Lett. 2020 Jul; 23(7):1153-1168.
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Bottom-up when it is not top-down: Predators and plants control biomass of grassland arthropods. J Anim Ecol. 2020 05; 89(5):1286-1294.
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Nutrient dilution and climate cycles underlie declines in a dominant insect herbivore. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 03 31; 117(13):7271-7275.
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A distributed experiment demonstrates widespread sodium limitation in grassland food webs. Ecology. 2019 03; 100(3):e02600.
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Medicago truncatula Oleanolic-Derived Saponins Are Correlated with Caterpillar Deterrence. J Chem Ecol. 2017 Jul; 43(7):712-724.