Herbivores : between plants and predators : the 38th symposium of the British Ecological Society in cooperation with the Netherlands Ecological Society held at the Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands, 1997
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Herbivores : between plants and predators : the 38th symposium of the British Ecological Society in cooperation with the Netherlands Ecological Society held at the Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands, 1997
Blackwell Science, 1999
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Herbivores play a keystone role in the evolution, organization and functioning of populations, communities and ecosystems. Ranging from small insects to megaherbivores such as elephants, herbivores have a major impact on vegetation succession and nutrient cycling. Conversely, many plant features constrain the food intake, population dynamics and community interactions of herbivores. The dynamics of plant-herbivore systems is in turn affected by higher trophic levels, such as parasitoids and predators. This book brings together authors from different disciplines including evolutionary ecology, entomology, plant and animal ecology, biochemistry, physiology and behavioural ecology. By taking herbivores as the point of focus, it provides a series of comprehensive reviews emphasizing the links between these different fields of interest. The book provides an up-to-date overview of knowledge in the field, and suggests many interesting directions for future research.
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What we know and do not know about coevolution: insect herbivores and plants as a test case The ecology and evolution of host plant range: butterflies as a model group Genetic variation in cytochrome P450-based resistance to plant allelochemicals and insecticides To leave or to stay, that is the question: predictions from models of patch-leaving strategies The evolution of direct and indirect plant defence against herbivorous arthropods Herbivore diversity and plant dynamics: compensatory and additive effects Insect and nematode herbivory below-ground: interactions and role in vegetation succession Competition for light, plant species replacement and herbivore abundance along productivity gradients Cyclic grazing in vertebrates and the manipulation of the food resource Herbivores, nutrients and trophic cascades in terrestrial environments Digestive and ingestive adaptations of mammalian herbivores to low quality forage Functional responses to resource complexity: an experimental analysis of foraging by beavers Scaling-up from functional response to numerical response in vertebrate herbivores Physiological flexibility and its impact on energy metabolism and foraging behaviour in birds Community dynamics of vertebrate herbivores - how can we untangle the web? Plant-carnivore interactions: evolutionary and ecological consequences for plant, herbivore and carnivore Dynamics of consumer-resource interactions: importance of individual attributes Individual-based modelling as an integrative approach in theoretical and applied population dynamics and food web studies Predator control in terrestrial ecosystems: the underground food chain of bush lupine
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