Infochemicals : Invisible bonds binding creatures great and small

ISBN-13: 9783659965326 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 148 str.

Yuvaraj Ranganathan

Opis

Plant-animal interaction systems are complex food webs where the members, viz., plants, pollinators, herbivores, parasites and predators of the pollinators/herbivores interact with each other in ways which maximize their own fitness. Based on the net outcome, such interactions could be mutually beneficial to the interacting members (mutualism) or beneficial to only one of the interacting members at the cost of the other interacting members (herbivory, predation, parasitism). It is possible that such outcomes are a continuum and could swing in either direction from beneficial to detrimental and vice versa. Such transitions happen not only over long time scales, but could also happen within shorter time scales based on conditionalities. Conditional outcomes are those in which the outcome of an interaction between two partners is conditional on the involvement of a third partner. Thus, studying such outcomes necessitates taking into account systems beyond the classical two-partner interactions.

O autorze

The author was trained in Ecology and Evolution at the Indian Institute of Science where he was awarded a doctoral degree in 2012. After which he moved to Czech Republic for a postdoctoral research program. He currently lives there pursuing his interests as co-founder of Gnobiosys.