Advances in Insect Chemical Ecology (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Carde, Ring T.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Chemical signals mediate all aspects of insects' lives and their ecological interactions. The discipline of chemical ecology seeks to unravel these interactions by identifying and defining the chemicals involved, and documenting how perception of these chemical mediators modifies behaviour and ultimately reproductive success. Chapters in this 2004 volume consider how plants use chemicals to defend themselves from insect herbivores; the complexity of floral odors that mediate insect pollination; tritrophic interactions of plants, herbivores, and parasitoids and the chemical cues that parasitoids use to find their herbivore hosts; the semiochemically mediated behaviours of mites; pheromone communication in spiders and cockroaches; the ecological dependency of tiger moths on the chemistry of their host-plants; and the selective forces that shape the pheromone communication channel of moths. The volume presents descriptions of the chemicals involved, the effects of semiochemically mediated interactions on reproductive success, and the evolutionary pathways that have shaped the chemical ecology of arthropods.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511207310
• Artikelnr.: 38193288

Autorenporträt

Professor Ring T. Cardé is based in the Department of Entomology in the University of California, Riverside.
Professor Jocelyn G. Millar is also in the Department of Entomology in UC Riverside.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; 1. Phytochemical diversity of insect defenses in tropical and
temperate plant families John T. Arason, Gabriel Guillet and Tony Durst; 2.
Recruitment of predators and parasitoids by herbivore-injured plants Ted C.
J. Turlings and Felix Wäckers; 3. Chemical ecology of astigmatid mites
Yasumasa Kuwahara; 4. Semiochemistry of spiders Stefan Schulz; 5. Why do
flowers smell? The chemical ecology of fragrance-driven pollination Robert
A. Raguso; 6. Sex pheromones of cockroaches César Gemeno and Coby Schal; 7.
A quest for alkaloids: curious relationship between tiger moths and plants
containing pyrrolizidine alkaloids William E. Conner and Susan J. Weller;
8. Structure of the pheromone communication channel in moths Ring T. Cardé
and Kenneth F. Haynes; Index.