Revival: Insect-Plant Interactions (1992): Volume IV

ISBN-13: 9781138553132 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 248 str.

Elizabeth a. Bernays

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Seed Predators as Mutualists: Ecology and Evolution of the Fig/Pollinator Interaction (Judith L. Bronstein). 2. Plant Sterols and Hostplant Affiliations of Herbivores (Elizabeth A. Bernays). 3. Sensory Coding of Feeding Deterrents in Phytophagous Insects (Louis M. Schoonhoven, Walter M. Blaney, and Monique S.J. Simmonds). 4. Extrafloral Nectary-Mediated Interactions between Insects and Plants (Suzanne Koptur). 5. The Role of Quinolizidine Alkaloids in Plant Insect Interactions (Michael Wink). 6. The Impact of Plant Stress on Herbivore Population Dynamics (Gwendolyn L. Waring and Neil S. Cobb).

O autorze

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.