Evolution, Systematics and Ecology of the Myrmecophytic Genus Tococa (Melastomataceae)
Author: Fabián Armando Michelangeli
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 792
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 792
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Frank Almeda
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 150
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Taxonomic history; Systematic position and general relationships; Comparative morphology; Chromosome numbers; Distribution, habitat, and flowering; Pollination and breeding system; Natural hybridization and speciation; Intrageneric relationships; Taxonomic rationale for the conservative approach; Taxonomic treatment; Key to species Monochaetum in Mexico and Central America; Uncertain species; Excluded species.
Author: Paulo S. Oliveira
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-08-17
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 110715975X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first volume devoted to anthropogenic effects on interactions between ants and flowering plants, considered major parts of terrestrial ecosystems.
Author: František Baluška
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2010-08-05
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 3642121624
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since the concept of allelopathy was introduced almost 100 years ago, research has led to an understanding that plants are involved in complex communicative interactions. They use a battery of different signals that convey plant-relevant information within plant individuals as well as between plants of the same species or different species. The 13 chapters of this volume discuss all these topics from an ecological perspective. Communication between plants allows them to share physiological and ecological information relevant for their survival and ?tness. It is obvious that in these very early days of ecological plant communication research we are illuminating only the ‘tip of iceberg’ of the communicative nature of higher plants. Nevertheless, knowledge on the identity and informative value of volatiles used by plants for communication is increasing with breath-taking speed. Among the most spectacular examples are sit- tions where plant emitters warn neighbours about a danger, increasing their innate immunity, or when herbivore-attacked plants attract the enemies of the herbivores (‘cry for help’ and ‘plant bodyguards’ concepts). It is becoming obvious that plants use not only volatile signals but also diverse water soluble molecules, in the case of plant roots, to safeguard their evolutionary success and accomplish self/non-self kin rec- nition. Importantly, as with all the examples of biocommunication, irrespective of whether signals and signs are transmitted via physical or chemical pathways, plant communication is a rule-governed and sign-mediated process.
Author: David H. Benzing
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-04-06
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780521430319
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book covers bromeliad biology, rather than cultivation.
Author: Victor Rico-Gray
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008-09-15
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0226713547
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ants are probably the most dominant insect group on Earth, representing ten to fifteen percent of animal biomass in terrestrial ecosystems. Flowering plants, meanwhile, owe their evolutionary success to an array of interspecific interactions—such as pollination, seed dispersal, and herbivory—that have helped to shape their great diversity. The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions brings together findings from the scientific literature on the coevolution of ants and plants to provide a better understanding of the unparalleled success of these two remarkable groups, of interspecific interactions in general, and ultimately of terrestrial biological communities. The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions synthesizes the dynamics of ant-plant interactions, including the sources of variation in their outcomes. Victor Rico-Gray and Paulo S. Oliveira capture both the emerging appreciation of the importance of these interactions within ecosystems and the developing approaches that place studies of these interactions into a broader ecological and evolutionary context. The collaboration of two internationally renowned scientists, The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions will become a standard reference for understanding the complex interactions between these two taxa.
Author: Ulrich Lüttge
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 3642744656
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In his lectures my teacher Karl Mägdefrau used to say that one only becomes a real plant scientist when one enters a tropical rainforest. For me this initiation occurred in 1969 in northern Queensland, Australia, and was associated with the greatest excitement. On another level it received confirmation when I set out in 1983 together with some friends and colleagues for the first detailed ecophysiological studies of epiphytes in the wet tropics in situ in the island of Trinidad and later for similar work in Venezuela. This then promoted the idea of organizing a special symposium on "The evolution and ecophysiology of vascular plants as epiphytes" during the XIV International Botanical Congress in luly 1987 in Berlin, and to ask some of the speakers to produce chapters for a small monograph on the interesting ecologically defined group of plants "epiphytes" as presented in this volume of "Ecological Studies". The enthusiasm of the participants of the symposium giving reports and adding to the discussion was most stimulating, and it appears that epiphytes might gain well-deserved, wider consideration in the future. The cooperation with the authors of this book was very pleasant and I appreciated the new contacts established with adepts of the "epiphyte community". The chapters were organized and arranged covering first more gen eral aspects with setting the scene in Chapter 1, the evolution of epi phytism in Chapter 2 and the role of CO -concentrating mechanisms in 2 Chapter 3.