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Title: Low nutritive quality as a defense against optimally foraging herbivores: Journal: The American Naturalist; Authors: P. Lundberg, and M. Astrom; Date: 1990; Summary: Using a simple optimization model, Lundberg and Astrom analyzed whether low nutritive quality in terms of low nutrient concentration can be a profitable anti-herbivory strategy for plants. Contrary to most studies, this has considered vertebrate herbivores feeding on discrete food items such as trees. The authors have shown that low nutritive quality , at least in terms of nutrient concentration, can be a profitable defense mechanism for individual plants attacked by optimally foraging herbivores. This conclusion is best suited to systems of browsers and trees (or shrubs) and it is not obvi ...; Agrovoc Control Words: Riparian zones, Rangelands, Wildlife; View more details about this article