Trait-Mediated Indirect Interactions (eBook, ePUB)

Ecological and Evolutionary Perspectives
Redaktion: Ohgushi, Takayuki

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

There is increasing evidence that the structure and functioning of ecological communities and ecosystems are strongly influenced by flexible traits of individuals within species. A deep understanding of how trait flexibility alters direct and indirect species interactions is crucial for addressing key issues in basic and applied ecology. This book provides an integrated perspective on the ecological and evolutionary consequences of interactions mediated by flexible species traits across a wide range of systems. It is the first volume synthesizing the rapidly expanding research field of trait-mediated indirect effects and highlights how the conceptual framework of these effects can aid the understanding of evolutionary processes, population dynamics, community structure and stability, and ecosystem function. It not only brings out the importance of this emerging field for basic ecological questions, but also explores the implications of trait-mediated interactions for the conservation of biodiversity and the response of ecosystems to anthropogenic environmental changes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139853712
• Artikelnr.: 37860589

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Foreword; Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I.
Community: 2. Perspective: kinds of trait-mediated indirect effects in
ecological communities: a synthesis; 3. Consequences of trait changes in
host-parasitoid interactions in insect communities; 4. The impact of
trait-mediated indirect interactions in marine communities; 5.
Trait-mediated indirect interactions in size-structured populations: causes
and consequences for species interactions and community dynamics; 6.
Trait-mediated effects, density dependence, and the dynamic stability of
ecological systems; 7. Plant effects on herbivore-enemy interactions in
natural systems; 8. The implications of adaptive prey behavior for
ecological communities: a review of current theory; 9. Community
consequences of phenotypic plasticity of terrestrial plants:
herbivore-initiated bottom-up trophic cascades; 10. Model-based, response
surface approaches to quantifying indirect interactions; Part II.
Coevolution: 11. Perspective: trait-mediated indirect interactions and the
coevolutionary process; 12. Evolutionary indirect effects: examples from
introduced plant and herbivore interactions; 13. Indirect evolutionary
interactions in a multi-trophic system; 14. The role of trait-mediated
indirect interactions for multispecies plant-animal mutualisms; 15.
Consequences of trait evolution in a multi-species system; Part III.
Ecosystem: 16. Perspective: interspecific indirect genetic effects (IIGEs):
linking genetics and genomics to community ecology and ecosystem processes;
17. Species functional traits, trophic control, and the ecosystem
consequences of adaptive foraging in the middle of food chains; 18. Effects
of herbivores on terrestrial ecosystem processes: the role of trait
mediated indirect effects; 19. Functional and heritable consequences of
plant genotype on community composition and ecosystem processes; 20.
Microbial mutualists and biodiversity in ecosystems; 21. Integrating
trait-mediated effects and non-trophic interactions in the study of
biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; Part IV. Applied Ecology: 22.
Perspective: consequences of trait-mediated indirect interactions for
biological control of plant pests; 23. Natural enemy functional identity,
trait-mediated interactions, and biological control; 24. Trait-mediated
effects modify patch-size density relationships in insect herbivores and
parasitoids; 25. Plasticity and trait-mediated indirect interactions among
plants; 26. Climate change, phenology, and the nature of consumer-resource
interactions: advancing the match/mismatch hypothesis; 27. Coda; Index.