Insect-Plant Interactions

✍ Scribed by Elizabeth A. Bernays (Author)

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 1989
• Leaves: 171
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

First Published in 1989, this book explores the relationship between plants and insects and the ways in which they interact with each other. Carefully compiled and filled with a vast repertoire of notes, diagrams, and references this book serves as a useful reference for students of oncology, and other practitioners in their respective fields.

✦ Table of Contents

1. On the Role of Microbial Symbiotes in Herbivorous Insects. 2. The Relative Importance of Vertebrate and Invertebrate Herbivores in Plant Population Dynamics. 3. Air Pollution and Insect Herbivores: Observed Interactions and Possible Mechanisms. 4. Extrinsic Factors Influencing Production of Secondary Metabolites in Plants. 5. Arthropod impact on Plant Gas Exchange. Index.