Plant Animal Communication

Author : H. Martin Schaefer,Graeme D. Ruxton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191620973

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Plant-Animal Communication by H. Martin Schaefer,Graeme D. Ruxton Pdf

Communication is an essential factor underpinning the interactions between species and the structure of their communities. Plant-animal interactions are particularly diverse due to the complex nature of their mutualistic and antagonistic relationships. However the evolution of communication and the underlying mechanisms responsible remain poorly understood. Plant-Animal Communication is a timely summary of the latest research and ideas on the ecological and evolutionary foundations of communication between plants and animals, including discussions of fundamental concepts such as deception, reliability, and camouflage. It introduces how the sensory world of animals shapes the various modes of communication employed, laying out the basics of vision, scent, acoustic, and gustatory communication. Subsequent chapters discuss how plants communicate in these sensory modes to attract animals to facilitate seed dispersal, pollination, and carnivory, and how they communicate to defend themselves against herbivores. Potential avenues for productive theoretical and empirical research are clearly identified, and suggestions for novel empirical approaches to the study of communication in general are outlined.

Author : Richard Karban
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226264844

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Plant Sensing & Communication by Richard Karban Pdf

The news that a flowering weed—mousear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana)—can sense the particular chewing noise of its most common caterpillar predator and adjust its chemical defenses in response led to headlines announcing the discovery of the first “hearing” plant. As plants lack central nervous systems (and, indeed, ears), the mechanisms behind this “hearing” are unquestionably very different from those of our own acoustic sense, but the misleading headlines point to an overlooked truth: plants do in fact perceive environmental cues and respond rapidly to them by changing their chemical, morphological, and behavioral traits. In Plant Sensing and Communication, Richard Karban provides the first comprehensive overview of what is known about how plants perceive their environments, communicate those perceptions, and learn. Facing many of the same challenges as animals, plants have developed many similar capabilities: they sense light, chemicals, mechanical stimulation, temperature, electricity, and sound. Moreover, prior experiences have lasting impacts on sensitivity and response to cues; plants, in essence, have memory. Nor are their senses limited to the processes of an individual plant: plants eavesdrop on the cues and behaviors of neighbors and—for example, through flowers and fruits—exchange information with other types of organisms. Far from inanimate organisms limited by their stationary existence, plants, this book makes unquestionably clear, are in constant and lively discourse.

Author : František Baluška,Stefano Mancuso,Dieter Volkmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540285168

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Communication in Plants by František Baluška,Stefano Mancuso,Dieter Volkmann Pdf

Plant neurobiology is a newly emerging field of plant sciences. It covers signalling and communication at all levels of biological organization – from molecules up to ecological communities. In this book, plants are presented as intelligent and social organisms with complex forms of communication and information processing. Authors from diverse backgrounds such as molecular and cellular biology, electrophysiology, as well as ecology treat the most important aspects of plant communication, including the plant immune system, abilities of plants to recognize self, signal transduction, receptors, plant neurotransmitters and plant neurophysiology. Further, plants are able to recognize the identity of herbivores and organize the defence responses accordingly. The similarities in animal and plant neuronal/immune systems are discussed too. All these hidden aspects of plant life and behaviour will stimulate further intense investigations in order to understand the communicative plants in their whole complexity.

Author : H. D. Kumar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Animal-plant relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025824991

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Plant-animal Interactions by H. D. Kumar Pdf

Author : Warren G. Abrahamson
Publisher : New York, NY : Macmillan Publishing Company
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Animal-plant relationships
ISBN : 0029480507

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Plant-animal Interactions by Warren G. Abrahamson Pdf

Author : Kleber Del-Claro,Helena Maura Torezan-Silingardi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030668778

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Plant-Animal Interactions by Kleber Del-Claro,Helena Maura Torezan-Silingardi Pdf

This textbook provides the first overview of plant-animal interactions for twenty years focused on the needs of students and professors. It discusses a range of topics from the basic structures of plant-animal interactions to their evolutionary implications in producing and maintaining biodiversity. It also highlights innovative aspects of plant-animal interactions that can represent highly productive research avenues, making it a valuable resource for anyone interested in a future career in ecology. Written by leading experts, and employing a variety of didactic tools, the book is useful for students and teachers involved in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses addressing areas such as herbivory, trophic relationships, plant defense, pollination and biodiversity.

Author : Carlos M. Herrera,Olle Pellmyr
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781444312294

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Plant Animal Interactions by Carlos M. Herrera,Olle Pellmyr Pdf

Interactions between plants and animals are incredibly diverse and complex and span terrestrial, atmospheric and aquatic environments. The last decade has seen the emergence of a vast quantity of data on the subject and there is now a perceived need among both teachers and undergraduate students for a new textbook that incorporates the numerous recent advances made in the field. The book is intended for use by advanced level undergraduate and beginning graduate students, taking related courses in wider ecology degree programmes. Very few books cover this subject and those that do are out of date.

Author : František Baluška,Velemir Ninkovic
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642121623

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Plant Communication from an Ecological Perspective by František Baluška,Velemir Ninkovic Pdf

Since the concept of allelopathy was introduced almost 100 years ago, research has led to an understanding that plants are involved in complex communicative interactions. They use a battery of different signals that convey plant-relevant information within plant individuals as well as between plants of the same species or different species. The 13 chapters of this volume discuss all these topics from an ecological perspective. Communication between plants allows them to share physiological and ecological information relevant for their survival and ?tness. It is obvious that in these very early days of ecological plant communication research we are illuminating only the ‘tip of iceberg’ of the communicative nature of higher plants. Nevertheless, knowledge on the identity and informative value of volatiles used by plants for communication is increasing with breath-taking speed. Among the most spectacular examples are sit- tions where plant emitters warn neighbours about a danger, increasing their innate immunity, or when herbivore-attacked plants attract the enemies of the herbivores (‘cry for help’ and ‘plant bodyguards’ concepts). It is becoming obvious that plants use not only volatile signals but also diverse water soluble molecules, in the case of plant roots, to safeguard their evolutionary success and accomplish self/non-self kin rec- nition. Importantly, as with all the examples of biocommunication, irrespective of whether signals and signs are transmitted via physical or chemical pathways, plant communication is a rule-governed and sign-mediated process.

Author : Margarita Arianoutsou-Faraggitaki,R.H. Groves
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401109086

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Plant-animal interactions in Mediterranean-type ecosystems by Margarita Arianoutsou-Faraggitaki,R.H. Groves Pdf

The Sixth International Conference on Mediterranean Climate ecosystems was held at Maleme (Crete), Greece, from September 23 to September 27, 1991. This conference had as its theme 'Plant-Animal Interactions in Mediterranean-type Ecosystems'. Most of the papers presented to that meeting have already been published (see Thanos, C.A. ed., 1992, Proceedings of the VI International Conference on Mediterranean Climate Ecosystems, Athens, 389 pp.). These 57 papers were all necessarily short. But the theme of plant-animal interactions was considered by the Organizing Committee to be so important to a fundamental understanding of the ecology of Mediterranean-climate ecosystems and to an enhanced management ·of those systems that various international research scientists were invited to prepare longer contributions on major aspects of the overall theme. The Book that follows represents the result of those invitations. All five regions of Mediterranean climate are represented - Chile, California, southern Australia and the Cape Province of South Africa, as well as the Mediterranean Basin itself.

Author : Richard Karban
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226264707

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Plant Sensing and Communication by Richard Karban Pdf

Research is showing that plants are in constant and lively discourse--they communicate, signaling to remote organs within an individual, eavesdropping on neighboring individuals, and exchanging information with other organisms ranging from other plants to microbes to animals. Plants lack central nervous systems, and the mechanisms coordinating plant sensing, behavior, and communication are quite different from the systems that accomplish similar tasks in animals. But they are no less impressive from an evolutionary perspective. In "Plant Communication, "Karban puts an ear to the ground to reveal the world of plant communication and information sensing. He reveals their sensory capabilities, the learning capacity of plants, sensory signaling and communication, the different responses to pollinators and predators, and the mechanisms that undergird this impressive behavioral repertoire. The book shows that plants are hardly the inanimate organisms limited by their stationary existence."

Author : SARAH. MACHAJEWSKI
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781538301883

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HOW PLANTS COMMUNICATE by SARAH. MACHAJEWSKI Pdf

Welcome to the wonderful world of plants, some of the planet's most amazing creatures. Plants turn sunlight into food, produce oxygen, and provide people with food, clothing, medicine, and much, much more. What's more, they can communicate. This dynamic book takes readers inside plant communication, a place where chemicals, sounds, and smells become the synapses, words, and motions of the plant world. Written to support elementary science curricula, this book offers a high-interest take on botany that is sure to spark readers' interest in plant biology.

Author : Peggy S. M. Hill
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0674027981

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Vibrational Communication in Animals by Peggy S. M. Hill Pdf

In creatures as different as crickets and scorpions, mole rats and elephants, there exists an overlooked channel of communication: signals transmitted as vibrations through a solid substrate. Peggy Hill summarizes a generation of groundbreaking work by scientists around the world on this long understudied form of animal communication. Beginning in the 1970s, Hill explains, powerful computers and listening devices allowed scientists to record and interpret vibrational signals. Whether the medium is the sunbaked savannah or the stem of a plant, vibrations can be passed along from an animal to a potential mate, or intercepted by a predator on the prowl. Vibration appears to be an ancient means of communication, widespread in both invertebrate and vertebrate taxa. Hill synthesizes in this book a flowering of research, field studies documenting vibrational signals in the wild, and the laboratory experiments that answered such questions as what adaptations allowed animals to send and receive signals, how they use signals in different contexts, and how vibration as a channel might have evolved. Vibrational Communication in Animals promises to become a foundational text for the next generation of researchers putting an ear to the ground.

Author : Isaac Clements
Publisher : Syrawood Publishing House
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 1682865363

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Plant-Animal Interactions: An Ecological Approach by Isaac Clements Pdf

Plant-animal interactions are biological processes that occur between plants and animals in an ecosystem. Biodiversity is a key factor in the propagation and sustenance of an ecosystem. The symbiotic relationships that are formed by different species contribute to vital environmental processes such as pollination, seed dispersal, etc. Species evolution also depends on the surrounding environment. Natural resources are common for all species and cooperation and competition depends on the availability of food and water. From theories to research to practical applications, case studies related to all contemporary topics of relevance to this field have been included herein. With state-of-the-art inputs by acclaimed experts of this field, this book targets students and professionals.

Author : Palatty Allesh Sinu,KR Shivanna
Publisher : Manipal Universal Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789382460268

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Mutualistic Interactions between Flowering Plants and Animals by Palatty Allesh Sinu,KR Shivanna Pdf

The plant-animal interactions, both mutualistic and antagonistic, play a crucial role in the diversification of plants and animals, and are important in functioning of communities in their natural habitats. The mutual interactions between the flowering plants and the animals, in pollination and seed dispersal, largely determine the reproductive success of the flowering plants. Maintenence of these eco-services is critical for the sustainability of our biodiversity. India,with its rich biodiversity and leveling of crop yields in recent years would benefit from research in the area of plant-animal interactions. This volume includes chapters on various aspects of mutualistic plant-animal interactions. In particular the fundamental and applied aspects of ecoservices – pollination and seed dispersal are covered comprehensively. It also covers tritrophic interaction and the potential of genomics in studies on the plant-animal interactions. The book will be of interest to post-graduate students, teachers and researchers in the areas of Biology, Ecology, Botany, Zoology, Agri-horticulture, Forestry, and Conservation Biology.

Author : Monica Gagliano,John C. Ryan,Patrícia Vieira
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781452954127

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The Language of Plants by Monica Gagliano,John C. Ryan,Patrícia Vieira Pdf

The eighteenth-century naturalist Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) argued that plants are animate, living beings and attributed them sensation, movement, and a certain degree of mental activity, emphasizing the continuity between humankind and plant existence. Two centuries later, the understanding of plants as active and communicative organisms has reemerged in such diverse fields as plant neurobiology, philosophical posthumanism, and ecocriticism. The Language of Plants brings together groundbreaking essays from across the disciplines to foster a dialogue between the biological sciences and the humanities and to reconsider our relation to the vegetal world in new ethical and political terms. Viewing plants as sophisticated information-processing organisms with complex communication strategies (they can sense and respond to environmental cues and play an active role in their own survival and reproduction through chemical languages) radically transforms our notion of plants as unresponsive beings, ready to be instrumentally appropriated. By providing multifaceted understandings of plants, informed by the latest developments in evolutionary ecology, the philosophy of biology, and ecocritical theory, The Language of Plants promotes the freedom of imagination necessary for a new ecological awareness and more sustainable interactions with diverse life forms. Contributors: Joni Adamson, Arizona State U; Nancy E. Baker, Sarah Lawrence College; Karen L. F. Houle, U of Guelph; Luce Irigaray, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris; Erin James, U of Idaho; Richard Karban, U of California at Davis; André Kessler, Cornell U; Isabel Kranz, U of Vienna; Michael Marder, U of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU); Timothy Morton, Rice U; Christian Nansen, U of California at Davis; Robert A. Raguso, Cornell U; Catriona Sandilands, York U.