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Timing matters for plants and their herbivores

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A study combining landscape-scale insect manipulation and remote sensing in temperate deciduous forests indicates that adaptive responses to herbivory should be considered alongside climate change to understand plant phenological shifts.

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Fig. 1: The tree and herbivore species of focus in Mallick et al.
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