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Food crops --- Coffee. --- Coffee --- Theobroma cacao --- Groundnuts --- Vanilla (spice) --- Rubber --- Bananas --- Mangoes --- Tropical zones --- History --- Africa

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Tropical zones --- ecology --- Biogeography --- Biodiversity --- Tropical forests --- Tropical rain forests --- biological interaction --- ecosystems --- Food chains --- Tropical soils --- cycling --- Rain forest ecology. --- Ecology

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The mystique of the rainforest has captured the imaginations of generations of young people, explorers, authors, and biologists. It is a delicate ecosystem whose myriad sounds and smells, whose vibrancy of life, is balanced by constant cycles of death and decay. It is a place of fierce competition where unusual partnerships are forged and creative survival strategies are the norm. In this book, you will meet the scientific pioneers who first attempted to quantify and understand the vast diversity of these tropical forests, as well as their successors, who utilize modern tools and technologies to dissect the chemical nature of rainforest interactions. This book provides a general background on biodiversity and the study of chemical ecology before moving into specific chemical examples of insect defenses and microbial communication. It finishes with first-hand accounts of the trials and tribulations of a canopy biology pioneer and a rainforest research novice, while assessing the state of modern tropical research, its importance to humanity, and the ecological, political, and ethical issues that need to be tackled in order to move the field forward.

Biochemistry. --- Chemical ecology -- Tropics. --- Chemical ecology. --- Rain forests. --- Tropics. --- Rain forests --- Chemical ecology --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Botany --- Plant Physiology --- Ecology --- Biotic communities. --- Ecosystem management --- Biotic communities --- Ecosystems management --- Biocenoses --- Biocoenoses --- Biogeoecology --- Biological communities --- Biomes --- Biotic community ecology --- Communities, Biotic --- Community ecology, Biotic --- Ecological communities --- Ecosystems --- Natural communities --- Management --- Life sciences. --- Plant biochemistry. --- Plant ecology. --- Plant science. --- Botany. --- Life Sciences. --- Plant Biochemistry. --- Plant Ecology. --- Plant Sciences. --- Applied ecology --- Environmental management --- Nature conservation --- Biodiversity conservation --- Population biology --- Botanical science --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Biology --- Natural history --- Plants --- Biological chemistry --- Chemical composition of organisms --- Organisms --- Physiological chemistry --- Chemistry --- Medical sciences --- Composition --- Phytoecology --- Vegetation ecology --- Phytochemistry --- Plant biochemistry --- Plant chemistry --- Biochemistry --- Phytochemicals --- Plant biochemical genetics --- Floristic botany --- Floristic ecology --- Equatorial regions --- Equatorial zones --- Subtropical regions --- Subtropics --- Tropical regions --- Tropical zones --- Zones, Equatorial --- Zones, Tropical --- Earth (Planet)