Overview
This is the first and only book focusing on defensive plant coloration (aposematism, camouflage, mimicry and other types of defensive visual signalling and deception demonstrated by 170 colour photos). It illuminates many overlooked aspects of plant evolution and ecology
This book is aimed to provoke and stimulate students and scientists of plant-animal interactions to further pursue visual plant defences against herbivores. Such mechanisms can allow developing greener agricultural practices
This book outlines the basics of visual plant defences against herbivorous animals in order to establish this neglected area of plant evolution and ecology as an ordered branch of plant biology
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Table of contents (69 chapters)
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Aggressive Defenses
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Department of Biology and Environment,
Faculty of Natural Sciences,
University of Haifa- Oranim,
Tivon 36006
Israel
Major Research Interests:
The beginning of agriculture: The biology and genetics of plant‎‎ domestication.‎
The ecology and evolution of defensive vegetative coloration in plants.‎
Developmental processes in plants: meristematic activity and its ecology‎‎ and regulation, fate of apical meristems, homeosis, pattern formation.
Arabidopsis thaliana as a model for the biology of trees.‎
Biology and ecology of trees and other woody plants.‎
Palaeoecology: Dendrochronology, identification of botanical material‎‎ from archaeological excavations, reconstruction of palaeoenvironments.‎
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Defensive (anti-herbivory) Coloration in Land Plants
Authors: Simcha Lev-Yadun
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42096-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-42094-3Published: 03 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82497-0Published: 23 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-42096-7Published: 20 October 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 385
Number of Illustrations: 169 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Sciences, Entomology, Evolutionary Biology, Behavioral Sciences, Tree Biology