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  title info:
    title: Chemical Biology of the Tropics
    sub title: An Interdisciplinary Approach
  name:
    name part: Vivanco, Jorge M.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Weir, Tiffany.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2011
    edition: First.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 118 p. online resource.
  abstract: The mystique of the rainforest has captured the imaginations of generations of young people, explorers, authors, and biologists. It is a delicate ecosystem whose myriad sounds and smells, whose vibrancy of life, is balanced by constant cycles of death and decay. It is a place of fierce competition where unusual partnerships are forged and creative survival strategies are the norm. In this book, you will meet the scientific pioneers who first attempted to quantify and understand the vast diversity of these tropical forests, as well as their successors, who utilize modern tools and technologies to dissect the chemical nature of rainforest interactions. This book provides a general background on biodiversity and the study of chemical ecology before moving into specific chemical examples of insect defenses and microbial communication. It finishes with first-hand accounts of the trials and tribulations of a canopy biology pioneer and a rainforest research novice, while assessing the state of modern tropical research, its importance to humanity, and the ecological, political, and ethical issues that need to be tackled in order to move the field forward.
  table of contents: Biodiversity -- Chemical Ecology: Definition and Famous Examples -- Chemical Defenses of Insects: A Rich Resource for Chemical Biology in the Tropics -- Defensive Behaviors in Leaf Beetles: From the Unusual to the Weird -- Microbes: A New Frontier in Tropical Chemical Biology -- Out on a Limb - True Confessions of a Bug Detective -- So, You Want to do Research in the Rainforest?
  note: edited by Jorge M. Vivanco, Tiffany Weir.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Plant biochemistry
  subject:
    topic: Plant ecology
  subject:
    topic: Plant science
  subject:
    topic: Botany
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Plant Biochemistry
  subject:
    topic: Plant Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Plant Sciences
  classification: QK861-899
  classification: 572.572
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Signaling and Communication in Plants, 8
  identifier: 9783642190803
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19080-3
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    record creation date: 110428
    record change date: 20151125211048.0
    record identifier: 978-3-642-19080-3