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Studies of herbivory provide important insights into fundamental questions in many areas of the biological sciences. The focus on natural systems is more effective for the prediction of potential changes in ecosystems, given that agricultural systems are designed to create an equilibrium that optimizes the productive process. Given the ramifications of the processes related to herbivory, studies based on complementary approaches are necessary for a better understanding of the different aspects of the ecological process. This book attempts to expand on these different aspects of herbivory by presenting a multidisciplinary approach to a number of different themes, focusing on topics that range from basic research in natural habitats to the intrinsic relationships between animals and plants in agricultural systems.

Animal-plant relationships. --- Animal-plant interactions --- Animals and plants --- Interactions, Animal-plant --- Plant-animal interactions --- Plant-animal relationships --- Plants and animals --- Relationships, Animal-plant --- Ecology --- Animal behaviour

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Explore a controversial theory that challenges the common understanding of natural population control in herbivores.

Population biology. --- Animal-plant relationships. --- Nitrogen in animal nutrition. --- Animal nutrition --- Animal-plant interactions --- Animals and plants --- Interactions, Animal-plant --- Plant-animal interactions --- Plant-animal relationships --- Plants and animals --- Relationships, Animal-plant --- Ecology --- Biology

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"Plants produce a considerable number of structures of one kind, like leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds, and this reiteration is a quintessential feature of the body plan of higher plants. But since not all structures of the same kind produced by a plant are identical[,] for instance, different branches on a plant may be male or female ..., a single plant genotype generally produces a multiplicity of phenotypic versions of the same organ. [This work] uses this subindividual variation to deepen our understanding of the ecological and evolutionary factors involved in plant-animal interactions. On one hand, phenotypic variation at the subindividual scale has diverse ecological implications for animals that eat plants. On the other hand, by choosing which plants to consume, these animals may constrain or modify plant ontogenetic patterns, developmental stability, and the extent to which feasible phenotypic variants are expressed by individuals. An innovative study of the ecology, morphology, and evolution of modular organisms, [this work] addresses ... the ways in which organisms have coevolved to cope with variable environments."--Rudolf Schmid in Taxon.

Plants --- Animal-plant relationships. --- Plant genetics. --- Genetics --- Animal-plant interactions --- Animals and plants --- Interactions, Animal-plant --- Plant-animal interactions --- Plant-animal relationships --- Plants and animals --- Relationships, Animal-plant --- Ecology --- Botany --- Plant species --- Plant variation --- Plant diversity --- Plant genetics --- Variation (Biology) --- Variation. --- Variation --- Animal-plant relationships --- 581.4 --- 581.4 Plant morphology. Plant anatomy --- Plant morphology. Plant anatomy

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Animal-plant interactions --- Animal-plant relationships --- Animal-plante [Relations ] --- Animals and plants --- Benthos --- Biological oceanography --- Dier-plant relaties --- Ecologie [Mariene ] --- Ecologie marine --- Interactions [Animal-plant ] --- Mariene ecologie --- Marine ecology --- Plant-animal interactions --- Plant-animal relationships --- Plant-dier relaties --- Plante-Animal [Relations ] --- Plants and animals --- Relaties [Dier-plant ] --- Relations animal-plante --- Relations plante-animal --- Relationships [Animal-plant ] --- Zee--Ecologie --- Issue --- Benthal organisms --- Benthic organisms --- Benthonic organisms --- Bentos --- Benthos. --- Animal-plant relationships. --- Marine ecology. --- Animals. --- Animals --- Interactions --- Meetings --- Plants

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The dazzling variation in plant chemistry is a primary mediator of trophic interactions, including herbivory, predation, parasitism, and disease. At the same time, such interactions feed back to influence spatial and temporal variation in the chemistry of plants. In this book, Mark Hunter provides a novel approach to linking the trophic interactions of organisms with the cycling of nutrients in ecosystems.Hunter introduces the concept of the "phytochemical landscape"-the shifting spatial and temporal mosaic of plant chemistry that serves as the nexus between trophic interactions and nutrient dynamics. He shows how plant chemistry is both a cause and consequence of trophic interactions, and how it also mediates ecosystem processes such as nutrient cycling. Nutrients and organic molecules in plant tissues affect decomposition rates and the fluxes of elements such as carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus. The availability of these same nutrients influences the chemistry of cells and tissues that plants produce. In combination, these feedback routes generate pathways by which trophic interactions influence nutrient dynamics and vice versa, mediated through plant chemistry. Hunter provides evidence from terrestrial and aquatic systems for each of these pathways, and describes how a focus on the phytochemical landscape enables us to better understand and manage the ecosystems in which we live.Essential reading for students and researchers alike, this book offers an integrated approach to population-, community-, and ecosystem-level ecological processes.

Variation (Biology) --- Environmental chemistry. --- Botanical chemistry. --- Phytochemicals. --- Animal-plant relationships. --- Autotrophic bacteria. --- Heterotrophic bacteria. --- Bacteria, Heterotrophic --- Bacteria --- Bacteria, Autotrophic --- Animal-plant interactions --- Animals and plants --- Interactions, Animal-plant --- Plant-animal interactions --- Plant-animal relationships --- Plants and animals --- Relationships, Animal-plant --- Ecology --- Botanical chemicals --- Plant chemicals --- Chemicals --- Botanical chemistry --- Phytochemistry --- Plant biochemistry --- Plant chemistry --- Biochemistry --- Botany --- Phytochemicals --- Plant biochemical genetics --- Chemistry, Environmental --- Chemistry --- Biological variation --- Biology --- Heredity --- Genetics --- Mutation (Biology)