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Herbivory, intraspecific trait variability and back to herbivory
A study of six grass and four woody legume species found that long-term ungulate herbivory leads to divergent evolutionary and plastic responses based on plant life form: grasses shifted toward acquisitive leaf traits primarily through plasticity, while woody legumes developed more conservative leaves, longer spines, and smaller leaves through hereditary changes.
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