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A diagram depicting the concept of growth defense tradeoffs, the parameters to evaluate the fitness and the main variables involved. Resource allocation is related to different processes by arrows. Solid arrows refer to natural processes occurring in plants, while arrows with dashed lines refer to events in which resource allocation is altered by herbivore infestation.
