Insect-Plant Interactions (1992) (eBook, PDF)

Volume IV
Redaktion: Bernays, Elizabeth A.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is the fourth volume of a series devoted to providing a comprehensive review of the study of plant-eating insects, covering topics ranging from biochemistry to ecology and evolution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351270991
• Artikelnr.: 50542186

Autorenporträt

Dr. Elizabeth Bernays is a biologist turned writer. After growing up in Australia, she received her Ph.D. at the University of London, England, and had a career as an academic entomologist (most recently as a professor in UC Berkeley and then University of Arizona) before obtaining an MFA at the University of Arizona where she is currently a Regents' Professor Emerita. Bernays has published over two hundred scientific papers and books and several popular biology articles, as well as children's books. She has published poems and essays in a variety of literary journals.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Seed Predators as Mutualists: Ecology and Evolution of the
Fig/Pollinator Interaction 2. Plant Sterols and Hostplant Affiliations of
Herbivores 3. Sensory Coding of Feeding Deterrents in Phytophagous Insects
4. Extrafloral Nectary-Mediated Interactions between Insects and Plants 5.
The Role of Quinolizidine Alkaloids in Plant Insect Interactions 6. The
Impact of Plant Stress on Herbivore Population Dynamics