herbivory
English
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edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /həˈbɪvəɹi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /hɚˈbɪvəɹi/
- Hyphenation: her‧biv‧o‧ry
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Noun
editherbivory (uncountable)
- (ecology) The consumption of living plant tissue by animals.
- 1998, Sam Scheiner, Design and Analysis of Ecological Experiments, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 183:
- Herbivory is a paradoxical interspecific interaction. On the one hand, upward of a quarter of all species are herbivorous insects (Strong et al., 1984) and some additional fraction of the noninsect species is also herbivorous, so plant-herbivore interactions are common. On the other hand, the simple observation is that, to a first approximation, the earth is green (Hairston et al., 1960), despite the combined effect of those herbivores.
- 2009, J. Wiebe, E. Mouton, Nutria Harvest and Distribution 2008-2009 and a Survey of Nutria Herbivory Damage in Coastal Louisiana in 2009:
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editthe consumption of living plant tissue by animals
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