Evolutionary Ecology of Plant-Herbivore Interaction

By Juan Nez-Farfn

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030460142
• ISBN13: 9783030460143
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"