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Defenses Against Herbivores• Herbivory, animals eating plants, is a stressthat plants face in any ecosystem• Plants counter excessive herbivory withphysical defenses such as thorns and chemicaldefenses such as distasteful or toxiccompounds• Some plants even “recruit” predatory animalsthat help defend against specific herbivoresCopyright © 2008 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings

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