Defensive (anti-herbivory) Coloration in Land Plants
This book presents visual plant defenses (camouflage, mimicry and aposematism via coloration, morphology and even movement) against herbivores. It is mainly an ideological monograph, a manifesto representing my current understanding on defensive plant coloration and related issues. The book is not t...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2016.
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Plants are not sitting ducks waiting for herbivores to eat them
- 3. The many defensive mechanisms of plants
- 4. No defense is perfect and defense is always relative
- 5. Operating under stress and fear in the military as a lesson concerning difficulties for herbivory in nature. Factors that lower the need for perfect defensive mechanisms including micry. - 6. Evaluating risk: the problematic and even erroneous common view of "no damage or no attack equals no risk"
- 7. Partial descriptions of color patterns in floras and handbooks has consequences on the study of plant coloration biology
- 8. Animal color vision
- 9. The nature of signals
- 10. White as a visual signal
- 11. Visual signaling by plants to animals via color
- 12. Müllerian and Batesian mimics are extended phenotypes
- 13. Camouflage
- 14. Seed camouflage
- 15. Pod and seed camouflage in the genus Pisum
- 16. Defensive functions of white coloration in coastal and dune plants
- 17. Gloger's rule in plants: the species and ecosystem levels
- 18. Defensive masquerade by plants
- 19. Potential defense from herbivory by dazzle effects and trickery coloration of variegated leaves
- 20. Plants undermine herbirorous insect camouflage
- 21. Delayed greening
- 22. Red/purple leaf margin coloration: potential defensive functions
- 23. Aposematism
- 24. Olfactory aposematism
- 25. The anecdotal history of discussing plant aposematic coloration
- 26. Aposematic coloration in thorny, spiny and prickly plants
- 27. Fearful symmetry in aposematic spiny plants
- 28. Color changes in old aposematic thorns, spines, and prickles
- 29. Pathogenic bacteria and fungi on thorns, spines and prickles
- 30. Aposematism in plants with silica needles and raphids made of calcium oxalate
- 31. Müllerian and Batesian mimicry rings of aposematic thorny, spiny and toxic plants
- 32. Batesian mimicry and automimicry of aposematic thorns, spines and prickles
- 33. Additional cases of defensive visual Batesian mimicry among plants
- 34. When may green plants be aposematic?
- 35. Spiny east Mediterranean plant species flower later and in a drier season than non-spiny species
- 36. Biochemical evidence of convergent evolution of aposematic coloration in thorny, spiny and prickly plants
- 37. Aposematic coloration in poisonous flowers, fruits and seeds
- 38. Aposematic trichomes: probably an overlooked common phenomenon
- 39. Why is latex usually white and only sometimes yellow, orange or red? Simultaneous visual and chemical plant defense
- 40. Visual defenses basically operating by various mechanisms that have an aposematic component
- 41. Plant aposematism involving fungi
- 42. Do plants use visual and olfactory carrion-based aposematism to deter herbivores?
- 43. Gall aposematism
- 44. Experimental evidence for plant aposematism
- 45. The complicated enigma of red and yellow autumn leaves
- 46. Leaf color variability
- 47. What do red and yellow autumn leaves signal for sure?
- 48. The second generation of hypotheses about colorful autumn leaves
- 49. The shared and separate roles of aposematic (warning) coloration and the co-evolution hypothesis in defending autumn leaves
- 50. Spring versus autumn or young versus old leaf colors: evidence for different selective agents and evolution in various species and floras
- 51. How red is the red autumn leaf herring and did it lose its red color?
- 52. Defensive animal and animal action mimicry by plants
- 53. Caterpillar and other herbivore feeding damage mimicry as defense
- 54. Tunneling damage mimicry
- 55. Butterfly egg mimicry
- 56. Caterpillar mimicry
- 57. Aphid mimicry
- 58. Ant mimicry
- 59. Beetle mimicry
- 60. Spider web mimicry
- 61. Defensive bee and wasp mimicry by orchid flowers
- 62. Gall midge mimicry
- 63. Arthropod wing movement mimicry
- 64. "Eye spot" mimicry
- 65. Snake mimicry
- 66. Visual and olfactory feces and carrion mimicry
- 67. Extended phenotype
- 68. A general perspective of defensive animal mimicry by plants
- 69. Currently temporary final words.
