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Interrelationship Between Insects and Plants by Pierre Jolivet Pdf
One of the world's most insightful writers on the subject brings together an array of important and readable information on the ways in which insects and plants coexist in nature. Interrelationship Between Insects and Plants is a rare and expansive look at the intertwining of these two vastly different species. Its aim is to summarize in a simple and understandable way the basis of food selection among insects, and to review the various sides of their relationships with plants.
Biochemical Interaction Between Plants and Insects by James Wallace Pdf
Botanists and zoologists have recognized for centuries the specificity of various insects for plants, and entomolo gists have long been aware that insects defend themselves from predators by emitting repulsive odors. Only recently have chemists and biologists established a joint endeavor for studying the chemical relationships between plants and insects. The present symposium volume of the Phytochemical Society of North America's RECENT ADVANCES IN PHYTOCHEMISTRY consists of eight papers dealing with phytochemical relation ships between plants and their insect herbivores. The fifteenth P.S.N.A. annual symposium and meeting was held in August, 1975, on the campus of The University of South Florida, Tampa. The chemical defenses of apparent and unapparent plants were contrasted by Feeny. Rodreguiz and Levin illustrated parallel defense mechanisms of plants and insects and then Hendry, Kostelc, Hindenlang, Wichmann, Fix and Koreniowski discussed chemical messengers for both plants and insects. Subsequently Beck and Reese reviewed plant contributions to insect nutrition and metabolism. Indepth studies for the monarch butterfly-milkweed interaction were presented by Roeske, Seiber, Brower, and Moffitt and for the cotton boll weevil-cotton plant relationship by Hedin, Thompson, and Gueldner. In the latter portion of the symposium Rhoades and Cates presented a general theory concerning the coevolu tion of insects and plant antiherbivore chemistry.
Donald R. Strong,Professor of Biological Science Donald R Strong, Jr.,J. H. Lawton,Sir Richard Southwood
Author : Donald R. Strong,Professor of Biological Science Donald R Strong, Jr.,J. H. Lawton,Sir Richard Southwood Publisher : Unknown Page : 313 pages File Size : 41,5 Mb Release : 1984 Category : Insect-plant relationships ISBN : 0674455126
Insects on Plants by Donald R. Strong,Professor of Biological Science Donald R Strong, Jr.,J. H. Lawton,Sir Richard Southwood Pdf
The evolution of phytophagous insects; the major determinants of diversity;community patterns through time-the dynamics of colonization and speciation;species interactions in communities-the animals;interactions involving the plants;coevolution.
Louis M. Schoonhoven,Joop J. A. van Loon,Marcel Dicke
Author : Louis M. Schoonhoven,Joop J. A. van Loon,Marcel Dicke Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand Page : 441 pages File Size : 47,8 Mb Release : 2005-12 Category : Science ISBN : 9780198525943
Insect-Plant Biology by Louis M. Schoonhoven,Joop J. A. van Loon,Marcel Dicke Pdf
"Half of all insect species are dependent on living plant tissues, consuming about 10% of plant annual production in natural habitats and an even greater percentage in agricultural systems, despite sophisticated control measures. Plants are generally remarkably well-protected against insect attack, with the result that most insects are highly specialized feeders. The mechanisms underlying plant resistance to invading herbivores on the one side, and insect food specialization on the other, are the main subjects of this book. For insects these include food-plant selection and the complex sensory processes involved, with their implications for learning and nutritional physiology, as well as the endocrinological aspects of life cycle synchronization with host plant phenology. In the case of plants exposed to insect herbivores, they include the activation of defence systems in order to minimize damage, as well as the emission of chemical signals that may attract natural enemies of the invading herbivores and may be exploited by neighbouring plants that mount defences as well." "Insect-Plant Biology discusses the operation of these mechanisms at the molecular and organismal levels, in the context of both ecological interactions and evolutionary relationships. In doing so, it uncovers the highly intricate antagonistic and mutualistic interactions that have evolved between plants and insects. The book concludes with a chapter on the application of our knowledge of insect-plant interactions to agricultural production." "This multidisciplinary approach will appeal to students in agricultural entomology, plant sciences, ecology, and indeed anyone interested in the principles underlying the relationships between the two largest groups of organisms on earth: plants and insects."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Plant-Provided Food for Carnivorous Insects by F. L. Wäckers,P. C. J. van Rijn,J. Bruin Pdf
This book, first published in 2005, addresses food-mediated interactions, focusing on how plants employ foods to recruit arthropod 'bodyguards' as a protection against herbivores.
Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden, Revised and Updated Second Edition by Jessica Walliser Pdf
In Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden, you'll learn how to fill your garden with the right plants to support the beneficial predatory insects that control common garden pests.
Insects on Dock Plants by David T. Salt,John B. Whittaker Pdf
Dock plants are widely accessible and pleasant to work with, and ecologists can begin to unravel the interactions that link together the species in a representative insect/plant community. Their fauna is now also well enough known to be accessible to the non-specialist.
Imagine beetles ejecting defensive sprays as hot as boiling water; female moths holding their mates for ransom; caterpillars disguising themselves as flowers by fastening petals to their bodies; termites emitting a viscous glue to rally fellow soldiers--and you will have entered an insect world once beyond imagining, a world observed and described down to its tiniest astonishing detail by Thomas Eisner. The story of a lifetime of such minute explorations, For Love of Insects celebrates the small creatures that have emerged triumphant on the planet, the beneficiaries of extraordinary evolutionary inventiveness and unparalleled reproductive capacity. To understand the success of insects is to appreciate our own shortcomings, Eisner tells us, but never has a reckoning been such a pleasure. Recounting exploits and discoveries in his lab at Cornell and in the field in Uruguay, Australia, Panama, Europe, and North America, Eisner time and again demonstrates how inquiry into the survival strategies of an insect leads to clarifications beyond the expected; insects are revealed as masters of achievement, forms of life worthy of study and respect from even the most recalcitrant entomophobe. Filled with descriptions of his ingenious experiments and illustrated with photographs unmatched for their combination of scientific content and delicate beauty, Eisner's book makes readers participants in the grand adventure of discovery on a scale infinitesimally small, and infinitely surprising.
Insects have evolved very unique and interesting tactics using chemical signals to survive. Chemical ecology illustrates the working of the biological network by means of chemical analyses. Recent advances in analytical technology have opened the way to a better understanding of the more complicated and abyssal interactions of insects with other organisms including plants and microbes. This book covers recent research on insects and chemical communications and presents the current status about challenges faced by chemical ecologists for the management of pests in agriculture and human health.
Host-Plant Selection by Phytophagous Insects by Elizabeth A. Bernays,Reginald F. Chapman Pdf
For more than 20 years insect/plant relations have been a focus for studies in ecology and evolution. The importance of insects as crop pests, and the great potential of insects for the biological control of weeds, have provided further impetus for work in this area. All this attention has resulted in books on various aspects of the topic, and reviews and research papers are abundant. So why write another book? It seems to us that, in the midst of all this activity, behavior has been neglected. We do not mean to suggest that there have not been admirable papers on behavior. The fact that we can write this book attests to that. But we feel that, too often, behavior is relegated to a back seat. In comparison to the major ecological and evolutionary questions, it may seem trivial. Yet the whole process of host-plant selection and host-plant specificity amongst insects depends on behavior, and selection for behavioral differences must be a prime factor in the evolution of host-plant specificity. In writing this book, we hope to draw attention to this central role of behavior and, hopefully, encourage a few students to attack some of the very difficult questions that remain unanswered.
Insect-Plant Biology by L. M. Schoonhoven,Tibor Jermy,J. J. A. van Loon Pdf
We live in a green world; the organisms that Although they disclaim a complete review, dominate our view are plants. Yet virtually which would be well beyond the scope of any thing other than a series of volumes, they have everywhere that there is a plant there will sampled the full diversity of existing knowl be insects. Though largely unnoticed, they consume on average about 10% of plants' edge - a reflection of their own familiarity resources. The shift of energy from plants to with the subject. In successive chapters they insects rivals in scale mankind's own demands lead logically from the composition of plants, through the coming together of insects and on the photosynthesizing world. Hence in sects most generally come to human notice by plants to the ecology and evolution of these competing with us, by eating our crops. Thus links. In each section the generality of the pattern is revealed, but none of the intricate insect-plant relationships are fundamental to agricultural science and much research in this variation is hidden. area sought, quite simply, to reduce pest The composition of plants is superficially so damage. However, in the last half century similar, but in fact there is endless variation. many biologists have recognized that this Both features have contributed to the patterns subject also provides excellent model systems we see in the physiology and ecology of this for investigating fundamental aspects of relationship.
Host-Plant Selection by Phytophagous Insects by Elizabeth A. Bernays,Reginald F. Chapman Pdf
For more than 20 years insect/plant relations have been a focus for studies in ecology and evolution. The importance of insects as crop pests, and the great potential of insects for the biological control of weeds, have provided further impetus for work in this area. All this attention has resulted in books on various aspects of the topic, and reviews and research papers are abundant. So why write another book? It seems to us that, in the midst of all this activity, behavior has been neglected. We do not mean to suggest that there have not been admirable papers on behavior. The fact that we can write this book attests to that. But we feel that, too often, behavior is relegated to a back seat. In comparison to the major ecological and evolutionary questions, it may seem trivial. Yet the whole process of host-plant selection and host-plant specificity amongst insects depends on behavior, and selection for behavioral differences must be a prime factor in the evolution of host-plant specificity. In writing this book, we hope to draw attention to this central role of behavior and, hopefully, encourage a few students to attack some of the very difficult questions that remain unanswered.
Plant Pests and Their Control by Peter G. Fenemore Pdf
Introduction; What is entomology?; The practical importance of insects; Insect structure and function; Growth, development, metamorphosis; Reproduction and life cycles; Insect identification and classification; Mites, and other non-insect pests; Insects and plants; Predators, parasites and pathogens; The ecological background to pest control; Pest control principles and practices; The pest management concept; Information required in dealing with a pest problem; Appendix 1-2; Index.
