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Description / Table of Contents:
No detailed description available for "The Ecology and Evolution of Inducible Defenses".
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (400 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780691228198
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=6511733
DDC:
578.4/7
Language:
English
Note:
Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Why Inducible Defenses? -- 1. Coping with Life as a Menu Option: Inducible Defenses of the Wild Parsnip -- 2. Adaptive Status of Localized and Systemic Defense Responses in Plants -- 3. Why Induced Defenses May Be Favored over Constitutive Strategies in Plants -- 4. Evolution of Induced Indirect Defense of Plants -- 5. Consumer-Induced Changes in Phytoplankton: Inducibility, Costs, Benefits, and the Impact on Grazers -- 6. The Immune System as an Inducible Defense -- 7. Kairomone-Induced Morphological Defenses in Rotifers -- 8. Predator-Induced Defenses in Ciliated Protozoa -- 9. Ecology and Evolution of Predator-Induced Behavior of Zooplankton: Depth Selection Behavior and Diel Vertical Migration -- 10. Inducible Defenses in Cladocera: Constraints, Costs, and Multipredator Environments -- 11. Predator-Induced Defense in Crucian Carp -- 12. Density-Dependent Consequences of Induced Behavior -- 13. Complex Biotic Environments, Coloniality, and Heritable Variation for Inducible Defenses -- 14. Developmental Strategies in Spatially Variable Environments: Barnacle Shell Dimorphism and Strategic Models of Selection -- 15. Evolution of Forager Responses to Inducible Defenses -- 16. Evolution of Reversible Plastic Responses: Inducible Defenses and Environmental Tolerance -- 17. The Evolution of Inducible Defenses: Current Ideas -- References -- Index.
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