
Insects and Plants
Parallel Evolution & Adaptations, Second Edition
Jolivet(Author)
CRC Press
2nd Edition
Published on 2. August 2017
Book
Hardback
202 pages
978-1-138-42367-1 (ISBN)
Description
Insects and plants, whether or not they coevolved, have intimate interrelationships. This book concisely yet thoroughly describes these phenomena. In one chapter the salient facts known about carnivorous plants are described. In another, ant and plant relationships are summarized as an introduction to this vast subject. Pollination, of great interest to agriculturists and horticulturists, is briefly explained without the complexities detailed in the massive literature on this topic. Many other subjects are discussed, such as the memory of adult butterflies, which enables them to return to their host plants in the case of the polyphagous species. The book is seeded with such thought-provoking discussions as prostitution among the orchids and botanical indigestion in some plants.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
530 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-42367-1 (9781138423671)
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Person
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Content
Introduction, 1 Diets of living things 2 Food selection of phtophagous insects 3 Problems of food selection 4 Control of imported weeds by insects 5 Mechanisms of food selection 6 Carnivorous plants 7 Mymecophilous plants 8 Epizioc symbiosis 8 The Galls 9 Fungus Gardens 11 Entomologcial manna 12 Pollinating Insects 13 Entomochorous plants 14 Coevolution 15 Conclusions