Advances in Insect Chemical Ecology

Ring T. Carde

ISBN 10: 0521792754 / ISBN 13: 9780521792752

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2004

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Chemical signals mediate all aspects of insects' lives and their ecological interactions. The discipline of chemical ecology seeks to unravel these interactions by identifying and defining the chemicals involved, and documenting how perception of these chemical mediators modifies behaviour and ultimately reproductive success. Chapters in this 2004 volume consider how plants use chemicals to defend themselves from insect herbivores; the complexity of floral odors that mediate insect pollination; tritrophic interactions of plants, herbivores, and parasitoids and the chemical cues that parasitoids use to find their herbivore hosts; the semiochemically mediated behaviours of mites; pheromone communication in spiders and cockroaches; the ecological dependency of tiger moths on the chemistry of their host-plants; and the selective forces that shape the pheromone communication channel of moths. The volume presents descriptions of the chemicals involved, the effects of semiochemically mediated interactions on reproductive success, and the evolutionary pathways that have shaped the chemical ecology of arthropods.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Advances in Insect Chemical Ecology
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521792754
• ISBN 13: 9780521792752
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 250W x 175H x 23D millimeters 250 millimeters width by 175 millimeters height by 23 millimeters depth
• Weight: 787 grams

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Synopsis

Eight chapters consider the latest research and thought in the study of how insects use chemical signals to communicate with each other or to interact with other species. Written by internationally recognized experts, they focus on topics such as plant defenses against insects, floral odors that attract pollinators, host finding by parasitic insects, and pheromone-mediated interactions in cockroaches, moths, spiders, and mites. The book is essential reading for researchers and graduate students of chemically mediated communication in insects.

Book Description

Advances in Insect Chemical Ecology presents eight timely reviews of the latest research and thinking in the study of how insects use chemical signals to communicate with each other or to interact with other species. The chapters are each written by internationally recognised experts and focus on topics such as plant defenses against insects, floral odors that attract pollinators, host finding by parasitic insects, and pheromone-mediated interactions in cockroaches, moths, spiders, and mites. The book represents essential reading for researchers and graduate students of chemically mediated communication in insects.