Chemical Ecology

From Gene to Ecosystem
2006
ISBN: 978-1-4020-4792-3
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 192 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 349 g

Reihe: Wageningen UR Frontis Series

Chemical cues are used to communicate, but can also be exploited in espionage or eavesdropping. To understand the ecology of chemical signalling in communities one needs to carry out manipulative experiments. Such experiments have been done throughout the last century. However, in recent years the degree of precision with which such experiments can be done has grown tremendously as a result of rapidly increasing knowledge at the molecular-genetic level. This opens exciting new avenues to chemical ecologists. The connection of molecular genetics to community ecology and ecosystem ecology provides novel tools to take up old questions that were often hard to answer. This book provides an overview of chemical ecology related to different ecosystems and an outlook at novel directions that can be taken in chemical ecology through a molecular-ecological or eco-genomic approach. The book addresses above- and belowground terrestrial systems as well as aquatic systems, and the organisms involved are micro- and macro-organisms, such as plants, arthropods and mammals. The scientific approach presented in this book is characteristic of modern biological research.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Takken, Willem

Dicke, Marcel

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik Pflanzenökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umwelttechnik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Neurobiologie, Verhaltensbiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chemical Ecology.- Chemical Communication.- Plant-insect interactions in the era of consolidation in biological sciences.- The Effect of Host-Root-Derived Chemical Signals on the Germination of Parasitic Plants.- Chemical Signalling Between Plants.- The chemosensory System of Caenorhabditis Elegans and Other Nematodes.- Variation in Learning of Herbivory-Induced Plant Odours by Parasitic Wasps.- Visualizing a Fly’s Nose.- Chemical Communication Between Roots and Shoots.- Food-Web Interactions in Lakes.- Plant Volatiles Yielding New Ways to Exploit Plant Defence.- Chemical Ecology from Genes to Communities.