Herbivores: Their Interactions with Secondary Plant Metabolites: Ecological and Evolutionary Processes

This volume presents the latest research on herbivores, aquatic and terrestrial mammals and insects. The Second Edition, written almost entirely by new authors, effectively complements the initial work. It includes advances in molecular biology and microbiology, ecology, and evolutionary theory that have been achieved since the first edition was published in 1979. The book also incorporates relatively new methodologies in the area of molecular biology, like protein purification and gene cloning. Volume II, Ecological and Evolutionary Processes, also opens up entirely new subjects: The discussions of interactions have expanded to include phenomena at higher trophic levels, such as predation and microbial processing and other environmental influences.

Both this and Volume I, The Chemical Participants, will be of interest to chemists, biochemists, plant and insect ecologists, evolutionary biologists, physiologists, entomologists, and agroecologists interested in both crop and animal science.

Presents coevolution of herbivores and host plantsExamines resource availability and its effects on secondary metabolism and herbivoresStudies physiology and biochemistry of adaptation to hostsIncludes tri-trophic interactions involving predators and microbes

P. Feeny, The Evolution of Chemical Ecology: Contributions From the Study of Herbivorous Insects.
E. St~adadler, Behavioral Responses of Insects to Plant Secondary Compounds.
J.L. Frazier, How Animals Perceive Secondary Plant Compounds.
F. Slansky, Jr. , Allelochemical-Nutrient Interactions in Herbivore Nutritional Ecology.
L.B. Brattsten, Metabolic Defenses against Plant Allelochemicals.
M. Rowell-Rahier and J.M. Pasteels, Third Trophic Level Influences of Plant Allelochemicals.
P.L.Phelan and B.R. Stinner, Microbial Mediation of Plant-Herbivore Ecology.
J.T. Arnason, B.J.R. PhilogSne, and G.H.N. Towers, Phototoxins in Plant-Insect Interactions.
J.P. Bryant, P.B. Reichardt, T.P. Clausen, F.D. Provenza, and P.J. Kuropat, Woody Plant-Mammal Interactions.
M.E. Hay and P.D. Steinberg, The Chemical Ecology of Plant-Herbivore Interactions in Marine Versus Terrestrial Communities.
M.R. Berenbaum and A.R. Zangerl, Genetics of Secondary Metabolism and Herbivore Resistance in Plants.
D.J. Futuyma and M.C. Keese, Evolution and Coevolution of Plants and Phytophagous Arthropods.
Each chapter includes references.
Index.