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Host sensitivity contrasts for ozone mass ratios were negative in two larval tests but positive for final mass in one 2024 data extract

We tested whether host ozone sensitivity predicts a lower herbivore mass response to ozone. We used matched host lines in two papers in a 2024 public data extract. The sensitive-to-resistant ratio of ozone mass response ratios was 0.481 for UK larval weight and 0.733 for US fourth-instar mass. The UK ratio was 1.076 for final weight. The larval point-estimate sign repeated between countries but changed with endpoint in the UK. The US estimate was uncertain. Two papers do not provide replication across time periods. Conditional error ranges show sensitivity to unknown covariance; they are not validated confidence intervals. Selected larvae, possible extraction error, mixed endpoints and host traits limit inference. No climate interaction or field population effect was tested. Code, source hashes, aggregate results and a new figure are included. External source records can be regenerated outside the publication.

ozone · host sensitivity · herbivore mass · observation bias · endpoint selection · uncertainty

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