All Flesh Is Grass (eBook)

Plant-Animal Interrelationships

Joseph Seckbach, Zvy Dubinsky (Herausgeber)

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2010 | 2011
XVI, 532 Seiten
Springer Netherland (Verlag)
978-90-481-9316-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This new book takes us through a journey from early life to modern agriculture. The thirty eight authors present current studies on the interrelation of plants-animals. This topic has always fascinated man, as evidenced even by the first chapters of Genesis. The world of aqueous and terrestrial fauna appeared on early earth only after the flora covered the areas with the green pigmentation. Almost all life depends upon sunlight via the photosynthesis of the botanical world. We read abut the harnessing of bee pollination of crops to make it an essential component of modern agriculture endeavor. Some plants seduce insects for pollination by their appearance (e.g., disguised orchids entice visitors); there is the production of sweet nectar as a bribe in flowers to attract bees, butterflies, and honey-sucking birds. A particular outstanding phenomena are the carnivorous plants that have developed trapping and digesting systems of insects and higher animals.

Inhalt

Table of Contents 6
Introduction To AL FLESH IS GRAS:PLANT–ANIMAL INTERACTIONS 8
LIST OF AUTHORS AND THEIR ADDRESES 12
Part 1:EVOLUTION of Plant animal relationship 17
EVOLUTION OF PLANT–ANIMAL INTERACTIONS 23
Part 2:INSECTS INTERACTIONS 49
INTESTINAL SPIROCHETES OF TERMITES 77
THE PLANT–APHID UNIVERSE 101
INSECT–PLANT INTERACTIONS: THE GALL FACTOR 128
THE LEAF-CUTTING ANT–PLANT INTERACTION FROM A MICROBIAL ECOLOGY PERSPECTIVE 51
Part 3:POLLINATION AND SEED DISPERSAL 154
ANTS AS POLLINATORS OF PLANTS AND THE ROLE OF FLORAL SCENTS 156
CROP POLLINATION IN MODERN AGRICULTURE 168
BEE COGNITION AND CROP POLLINATION: PROVEN AND POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS 186
ZOOCHORY: THE DISPERSAL OF PLANTS BY ANIMALS 201
Part 4:ANIMALS AND HUMANS INVOLVEMENT 215
GRAZING LIVESTOCK, OUR CONNECTION TO GRASS: A MEDITERRANEAN INSIGHT 218
HERBIVORE–PLANT INTERACTIONS AND DESERTIFICATION IN ARID LANDS 237
MICROSCOPIC IN SIZE: MACROSCOPIC IN IMPACT. DIATOM–HUMAN INTERACTIONS 256
Part 5:PLANT DEFENSES 281
BIOCHEMICAL PLANT DEFENSES AGAINST HERBIVORES 283
THE XANTHIUM GENUS 306
Part 6:MARINE ENVIRONMENTS 313
THE DIVERSITY OF EPIZOIC DIATOMS 317
EPIZOIC DIATOMS ON GASTROPOD SHELLS 337
MANAGING THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN PLANTS AND ANIMALS IN MARINE MULTI-TROPHIC AQUACULTURE 354
MARINE MICROALGAE/CYANOBACTERIA–INVERTEBRATE SYMBIOSIS 370
THE ROLE OF RHODOLITH BEDS IN THE RECRUITMENT OF INVERTEBRATE SPECIES FROM THE SOUTHWESTERN GULF OF CALIFORNIA, MEXICO 401
FUELED BY SYMBIOSIS, FORAMINIFERA HAVE EVOLVED TO BE GIANT COMPLEX PROTISTS 412
Part 7:CAR NIVOROUS PLANTS 436
ECOPHYSIOLOGICAL LOOK AT PLANT CARNIVORY 438
REVERSING THE ROLES OF PREDATOR AND PREY 472
ORGANISM Index 498
SUBJECT Index 502
Author Index 509

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.10.2010
• Reihe/Serie: Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology
• Reihe/Serie: Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology
• Zusatzinfo: XVI, 532 p.
• Verlagsort: Dordrecht
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Biochemie / Molekularbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: apiculture • herbivory • Pollination • Symbioses • Zoochory
• ISBN-10: 90-481-9316-8 / 9048193168
• ISBN-13: 978-90-481-9316-5 / 9789048193165