As herbivores adapt to a plant's defenses, the plant will always allocate more and more resources to those defenses to deter the herbivore.

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While some plants may increase their defenses in response to herbivory, others may adopt different strategies such as tolerance, or may not significantly change their resource allocation due to constraints or trade-offs with growth and reproduction. Evolutionary and ecological dynamics can lead to a variety of outcomes in plant-herbivore interactions.

As Herbivores Adapt to a Plant's Defenses, the Plant Will