Browsing by Author "Chacón, Paulina"
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Chacón, Paulina; Armesto, Juan J. (SPRINGER, 2006-01)Carbon-based secondary compounds (CBSCs), such as phenols or tannins, have been considered as one of the most important and general chemical barriers of woody plants against a diverse array of herbivores. Herbivory has ...
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Cavieres, Lohengrin A.; Chacón, Paulina; Peñaloza, Alejandro; Molina Montenegro, Marco A.; Arroyo, Mary T. K. (SPRINGER, 2007-05)Leaf litter accumulation can have either positive, negative or neutral effects on seed germination and seedling recruitment. In montane woodlands of the Mediterranean zone of central Chile, large amounts of leaf litter ...
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Chacón, Paulina; Bustamante Araya, Ramiro; Niemeyer Marich, August (BIRKHAUSER VERLAG AG, 2006-09)The plant apparency hypothesis predicts that apparent plants invest in broadly effective defences such as tannins while unapparent plants invest in specific toxins such as alkaloids. The stress hypothesis states that plants ...
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Arroyo, Mary T. K.; Chacón, Paulina; Cavieres, Lohengrin A. (OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2006-09)center dot Background and Aims Broad surveys have detected inverse relationships between seed and adult longevity and between seed size and adult longevity. However, low and unpredictable precipitation is also associated ...