Evolutionary ecology of plant-herbivore interaction. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Juan Núñez-Farfán, Pedro Luis Valverde, editors.
• Editors: Núñez-Farfán, Juan; Valverde, Pedro Luis
• Contents: Chapter 1 - Introduction: Plant-herbivore interaction.- Section I - The evolution of Plant Defense.- Chapter 2 - Natural selection of plant defense against herbivores in native and non-native ranges.- Chapter 3 - Plant demographic effects of herbivores.- Chapter 4 - Towards a unifying quest for an understanding of tolerance mechanisms to herbivore damage and its eco-evolutionary dynamics.- Chapter 5 - The extended microbiota: how microbes shape plant-herbivore interactions.- Chapter 6 - How plants defend themselves is based on what they remember.- Chapter 7 - Ecological genomics of insect-plant interactions: The case of gall inducing insects.- Chapter 8 - The ecology of inbreeding depression in plant defense.- Chapter 9 - The role of trichomes in plant-herbivore interactions.- Chapter 10 - Resource allocation and defense against herbivores in wild and model plants.- Section II - Community ecology of interactions.- Chapter 11 - Intra-specific variation in plant-arthropod traits and interactions along ecological gradients: evidence from latitudinal studies.- Chapter 12 - Ecosystem engineering by insect herbivores: non-trophic interactions in terrestrial ecosystems.- Chapter 13 - What is a better source? Sex-biased herbivory and its effects on tritrophic interactions.- Chapter 14 - Natural herbivore regulation in tropical agroecosystems: importance of farming practices and landscape structure.- Chapter 15 - Functional Plant Traits and Plant-herbivore Interactions.- Chapter 16 - The evolutionary context of interactions between herbivorous insects, pathogenic fungi and their host plants.- Chapter 17 - Plant domestication and trophic interactions.- Chapter 18 - Defaunation, domestication, and dispersal in plant communities.- Chapter 19 - Meta-analysis of the diversity and structure of understory plant communities in tropical forests impacted by Defaunation.- Chapter 20 - To escape or to defend? The role of enemies in bare and edaphically challenging environments.- Chapter 21 - Plant defense evolution: a macroevolutionary approach in the genus Datura.- Chapter 22 - The evolution and diversification of a neotropical generalist herbivorous: The history of the grasshopper Genus Sphenarium Charpentier, 1842.- Chapter 23 - Evolution among weevils and their host plants: interaction between the genera Trichobaris LeConte and Datura L.- Chapter 24 - Host chemical divergence is a better predictor of herbivore diversity than latitude.- Chapter 25 - Concluding remarks.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 577.8; Animal-plant relationships; Ecology; Evolution (Biology); Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030460129; 3030460126
• Related ISBNs: 3030460118; 9783030460112
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