Elian Vuillemot (@elianvuillemot.bsky.social)

1/5 Dense branching🌿and spines are common in plants under high mammalian herbivory. This paper by Anest et al. (2024, Nature Plants) shows how these traits combine into powerful defensive cage architectures. 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s414... #Evolution #Botany #Ecology @artemisanest.bsky.social

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Blocking then stinging as a case of two-step evolution of defensive cage architectures in herbivore-driven ecosystems - Nature Plants This study explores the evolution of two traits, branching density and spine presence, in the globally distributed plant family Combretaceae. These traits were found to have appeared in a two-step pro... https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-024-01649-4#PlantDefense