Research Catalog

Title

The ecology and evolution of inducible defenses / edited by Ralph Tollrian and C. Drew Harvell.

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Tollrian, Ralph, 1960-
• Harvell, C. Drew, 1954-

Description

xi, 383 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Ecology
• Animal defenses
• Plant defenses
• Evolution (Biology)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-376) and index.

Contents

• Why Inducible Defenses? / C. Drew Harvell and Ralph Tollrian -- 1. Coping with Life as a Menu Option: Inducible Defenses of the Wild Parsnip / May R. Berenbaum and Arthur R. Zangerl -- 2. Adaptive Status of Localized and Systemic Defense Responses in Plants / Johannes Jaremo, Juha Tuomi and Patric Nilsson -- 3. Why Induced Defenses May Be Favored over Constitutive Strategies in Plants / Anurag A. Agrawal and Richard Karban -- 4. Evolution of Induced Indirect Defense of Plants / Marcel Dicke -- 5. Consumer-Induced Changes in Phytoplankton: Inducibility, Costs, Benefits, and the Impact on Grazers / Ellen Van Donk, Miquel Lurling and Winfried Lampert -- 6. The Immune System as an Inducible Defense / Simon D. W. Frost -- 7. Kairomone-Induced Morphological Defenses in Rotifers / John J. Gilbert -- 8. Predator-Induced Defenses in Ciliated Protozoa / Hans-Werner Kuhlmann, Jurgen Kusch and Klaus Heckmann --
• 9. Ecology and Evolution of Predator-Induced Behavior of Zooplankton: Depth Selection Behavior and Diel Vertical Migration / Luc De Meester, Piotr Dawidowicz and Erik van Gool -- 10. Inducible Defenses in Cladocera: Constraints, Costs, and Multipredator Environments / Ralph Tollrian and Stanley I. Dodson -- 11. Predator-Induced Defense in Crucian Carp / Christer Bronmark, Lars B. Pettersson and P. Anders Nilsson -- 12. Density-Dependent Consequences of Induced Behavior / Bradley R. Anholt and Earl E. Werner -- 13. Complex Biotic Environments, Coloniality, and Heritable Variation for Inducible Defenses / C. Drew Harvell -- 14. Developmental Strategies in Spatially Variable Environments: Barnacle Shell Dimorphism and Strategic Models of Selection / Curtis M. Lively -- 15. Evolution of Forager Responses to Inducible Defenses / Frederick R. Adler and Daniel Grunbaum -- 16. Evolution of Reversible Plastic Responses: Inducible Defenses and Environmental Tolerance / Wilfried Gabriel --
• 17. The Evolution of Inducible Defenses: Current Ideas / Ralph Tollrian and C. Drew Harvell.

ISBN

• 0691012210 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0691004943 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

98017182

OCLC

• ocm38890836
• SCSB-3837934

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries