Author : Victor Rico-Gray
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 14,90 MB
Release : 2007-07-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0226713474
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Author : Paulo S. Oliveira
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 43,27 MB
Release : 2017-08-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 110715975X
The first volume devoted to anthropogenic effects on interactions between ants and flowering plants, considered major parts of terrestrial ecosystems.
Author : Andrew James Beattie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 1985-11-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521252814
This important work explores the natural history, experimental approach, and integration of evolutionary and ecological literature of ant-plant mutualisms.
Author : Camilla R. Huxley
Publisher :
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 42,7 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Nature
ISBN :
This book presents current research on all types of ant-plant interactions, and concentrates on understanding these often complex relationships in evolutionary and ecological terms. The range of interactions varies from herbivory (leaf-cutter ants) to complex symbiosis. Many ants prey on plant pests, thus protecting the plant from harm, receiving in exchange nectar and/or nest sites. In some cases the ants tend and protect other insects such as butterfly larvae or Homopterans (which include the aphids and cicadas) which may benefit the ants at the expense of both the host plant and the other insects. Some ants are known to be seed dispersers, and in at least one plant (cocoa) they appear to affect rates of pollination. A significant proportion of these interactions exhibit a high degree of mutualism, making this book part of a growing literature on the ecological determinants of mutualistic behaviour. The thirty-seven chapters by more than fifty contributors range in geographical coverage from northern and southern temperate zones, to the New World tropics, to Australia and South-east Asia. The emphasis throughout, even in the more descriptive chapters, is on possible explanations for observed phenomena. Workers in ecology, evolution, and behavior will welcome this compendium of information on a subject that has become a modern testing ground for evolutionary ecology.
Author : Pierre Jolivet
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 29,7 MB
Release : 1998-05-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781574440522
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.
Author : Elena Gorb
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,70 MB
Release : 2003-08-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402013799
Countless ants transport and deposit seeds and thereby influence the survival, death, and evolution of many plant species. In higher plants, seed dispersal by ants (myrmecochory) has appeared many times independently in different lineages. More than 3000 plant species are known to utilize ant assistance to be planted. Myrmecochory is a very interesting and rather enigmatic form of mutualistic ant-plant associations. This phenomenon is extremely complex, because there are hundreds of ant species connected with hundreds of plant species. This book effectively combines a thorough approach to investigating morphological and physiological adaptations of plants with elegant field experiments on the behaviour of ants. This monograph is a first attempt at collecting information about morphology, ecology and phenology of ants and plants from one ecosystem. The book gives readers a panoramic view of the hidden, poorly-known interrelations not only between pairs of ants and plant species, but also between species communities in the ecosystem. The authors have considered not just one aspect of animal-plant relationships, but have tried to show them in all their complexity. Some aspects of the ant-plant interactions described in the book may be of interest to botanists, others to zoologists or ecologists, but the entire work is an excellent example of the marriage of these biological disciplines.
Author : Lori Lach
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 24,57 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0199544638
The incredible global diversity of ants, and their important ecological roles, mean that we cannot ignore the significance of ants in ecological systems. Ant Ecology takes the reader on a journey of discovery from the beginnings of ants many hundreds of thousands of years ago, through to the makings of present day distributions.
Author : Carlos M. Herrera
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 2009-04-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 1444312294
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 : Rainer Wirth
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,47 MB
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 3662052598
Plant-animal interactions have become a focus of ecological research, with the processes of herbivory being of special interest. This volume examines the interactions of leaf-cutting ants with the rainforest vegetation on Barro Colorado Islands in Central America. It is the synthesis of field research on multiple scales extending over a period of several years. This work can serve as a model study summarizing and extending knowledge about herbivorous insect-plant relationships, and the resulting consequences on structural and functional features of tropical ecosystems. The text is an invaluable reference for researchers and land managers working in the fields of plant-animal interactions, herbivory, community ecology and biodiversity.
Author : Jacques Brodeur
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 37,28 MB
Release : 2007-06-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402047673
This volume explores modern concepts of trophic and guild interactions among natural enemies in natural and agricultural ecosystems - a field that has become a hot topic in ecology and biological control over the past decade. It is the first book on trophic and guild interactions to make the link to biological control, and is compiled by internationally recognized scientists who have combined their expertise.
