The ecology of plant secondary metabolites
Subtitle: from genes to global processes
By: edited by Glenn R. Iason, Marcel Dicke, Susan E. Hartley
Series: Ecological reviews
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521193269
Subjects: Secondary Metabolism; Plant metabolites; Plant ecology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The integrative roles of plant secondary metabolites in natural systems: a synthesis / Glenn R. Iason, Marcel Dicke, and Susan E. Hartley; title: Natural selection for anti-herbivore plant secondary metabolites: a eucalyptus system / Julianne M. O'Reilly-Wapstra, Clare McArthur and Brad M. Potts; title: Temporal changes in plant secondary metabolite production: patterns, causes, and consequences / Julia Koricheva and Kasey E. Barton; title: Mixtures in plant chemical defence: metabolic origins and ecological benefits / Jonathan Gershenzon ... [et al.]; title: The herbivore's prescription: a pharm-ecological perspective on host plant use by vertebrate and invertebrate herbivores / Jennifer S. Forbey and Mark D. Hunter; title: Volatile isoprenoids and abiotic stresses / Francesca Bagnoli, Silvia Fineschi, and Francesco Loreto; title: Atmospheric change, plant secondary metabolites, and ecological interactions / Richard L. Lindroth; title: The role of plant secondary metabolites in freshwater macrophyte-herbivore interactions: limited or unexplored chemical defences? / Elisabeth M. Gross and Elisabeth S. Bakker; title: The soil microbial community and plant foliar defences against insects / Alan C. Gange, Rene Eschen, and Viviane Schroeder; title: Phytochemicals as mediators of aboveground-belowground interactions in plants / Nicole M. van Dam; title: Plant secondary metabolites and the interactions between plants and other organisms: the potential of a metabolomic approach / Susan E. Hartley ... [et al.]; title: Integrating the effects of PSMs on vertebrate herbivores across spatial and temporal scales / Ben D. Moore and Jane L. DeGabriel; title: Plant secondary metabolite polymorphisms and the extended chemical phenotype / Glenn R. Iason ... [et al.]; title: From genes to ecosystems: emerging concepts bridging ecological and evolutionary dynamics / Joseph K. Bailey ... [et al.]; title: Asking the ecosystem if herbivory-inducible plant volatiles (hipvs) have defensive functions / Meredith C. Schuman and Ian T. Baldwin; title: Dynamics of plant secondary metabolites and consequences for food chains and community dynamics / Marcel Dicke, Rieta Gols, and Erik H. Poelman.