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

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.

List of contents

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).

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth A. Bernays, Elizabeth A. (University of Arizona) Bernays
• Assisted by: Elizabeth A. Bernays (Editor), Elizabeth A. (University of Arizona) Bernays (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138553132
• ISBN: 978-1-138-55313-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: CRC Press Revivals; CRC Press Revivals
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Entomology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Invertebrates, Botany & plant sciences, Botany and plant sciences, Zoology: invertebrates