Multitrophic Level Interactions
The multitrophic level approach to ecology addresses the complexity of food webs much more realistically than the traditional focus on simple systems and interactions. Only in the last twenty years have ecologists become interested in the nature of more complex systems including tritrophic interactions between plants, herbivores, and natural enemies. These interactions are explored in this exciting new volume by expert researchers from a variety of ecological fields. This book provides a much-needed synthesis of multitrophic level interactions and serves as a guide for future research for ecologists of all descriptions.
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Multitrophic Level Interactions
The multitrophic level approach to ecology addresses the complexity of food webs much more realistically than the traditional focus on simple systems and interactions. Only in the last twenty years have ecologists become interested in the nature of more complex systems including tritrophic interactions between plants, herbivores, and natural enemies. These interactions are explored in this exciting new volume by expert researchers from a variety of ecological fields. This book provides a much-needed synthesis of multitrophic level interactions and serves as a guide for future research for ecologists of all descriptions.
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Multitrophic Level Interactions

Multitrophic Level Interactions

Multitrophic Level Interactions

Multitrophic Level Interactions

Overview

The multitrophic level approach to ecology addresses the complexity of food webs much more realistically than the traditional focus on simple systems and interactions. Only in the last twenty years have ecologists become interested in the nature of more complex systems including tritrophic interactions between plants, herbivores, and natural enemies. These interactions are explored in this exciting new volume by expert researchers from a variety of ecological fields. This book provides a much-needed synthesis of multitrophic level interactions and serves as a guide for future research for ecologists of all descriptions.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521791106
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 03/21/2002
Pages: 284
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Teja Tscharntke is Professor of Agroecology at the University of Göttingen, Germany. His research focus is on plant-herbivore-enemy interactions including parasitism, predation and pollination, insect communities and food webs on a landscape scale and temperate-tropical comparisons. He is editor-in-chief of Basic and Applied Ecology and a member of the editorial board of Oecologia.

Bradford A. Hawkins is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. His research focus is on the biology and ecology of insect parasitoids, insect community ecology, food webs and energy-diversity theory. He is the author of Pattern and Process in Host-Parasitoid Interactions (Cambridge University Press, 1994), and editor of Parasitoid Community Ecology (1994, with William Sheenan) and Theoretical Approaches to Biological Control (Cambridge University Press, 1999, with Howard V. Cornell).

Table of Contents

1. Multitrophic level interactions - an introduction T. Tscharntke and B. A. Hawkins; 2. Plant genetic variation in tritrophic interactions J. D. Hare; 3. Multitrophic/multi-species mutualistic interactions: the role of non-mutualists in shaping and mediating mutualisms J. L. Bronstein and P. Barbosa; 4. Tritrophic interactions in tropical and temperate communities L. A. Dyer and P. D. Coley; 5. Endophytic fungi and interactions amongst host plant, herbivores and natural enemies S. H. Faeth and T. L. Bultman; 6. Multitrophic interactions in space: metacommunity dynamics in fragmented landscapes S. van Nouhuys and I. Hanski; 7. The chemical ecology of plant-caterpillar-parasitoid interactions T. C. J. Turlings, S. Gouinguené, T. Degan and M. E. Fritzsche-Hoballah; 8. Canopy architecture and multitrophic interactions J. Casas and I. Djemai; 9. Tritrophic below- and above-ground interactions in succession V. K. Brown and A. C. Gange; 10. Multitrophic interactions in decomposer food webs S. Scheu and H. Setälä; Index.
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