Editors:
Leading tropical ecologists, geneticists, microbiologists, biochemists, and others discuss the newest developments in the emerging field of tropical chemical biology.
Introduces new interdisciplinary concept.
International experts present the state-of-the-art knowledge in their fields and write about how the rich biodiverse setting of the Amazon Rainforest could provide for a natural laboratory to put that technology into action.
Part of the book series: Signaling and Communication in Plants (SIGCOMM, volume 8)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book provides a general background on biodiversity and the study of chemical ecology before moving into specific chemical examples of insect defenses and microbial communication. It finishes with first-hand accounts of the trials and tribulations of a canopy biology pioneer and a rainforest research novice, while assessing the state of modern tropical research, its importance to humanity, and the ecological, political, and ethical issues that need to be tackled in order to move the field forward.
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“This recent work in Springer’s ‘Signaling and Communication in Plants’ series originated with an expedition of laboratory scientists to Peru’s Tambopata National Reserve. … The result is a mixture of general review articles together with some firsthand descriptions of the pleasures and perils of tropical research. … should be required reading for graduate students in tropical biology. … Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers/faculty.” (B. E. Fleury, Choice, Vol. 49 (6), February, 2012)Editors and Affiliations
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Center for Rhizosphere Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
Jorge M. Vivanco, Tiffany Weir
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Chemical Biology of the Tropics
Book Subtitle: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Editors: Jorge M. Vivanco, Tiffany Weir
Series Title: Signaling and Communication in Plants
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19080-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-19079-7Published: 06 May 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-26806-9Published: 15 July 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-19080-3Published: 28 April 2011
Series ISSN: 1867-9048
Series E-ISSN: 1867-9056
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 118
Topics: Plant Biochemistry, Plant Ecology, Plant Science