1st Edition

Revival: Insect-Plant Interactions (1992) Volume IV

Edited By Elizabeth A. Bernays Copyright 1992
248 Pages
by CRC Press

248 Pages
by CRC Press

248 Pages
by CRC Press

This is the fourth volume of a series devoted to providing a comprehensive review of the study of plant-eating insects, covering topics ranging from biochemistry to ecology and evolution. Volume IV examines the status of mutualism, using the fig-insect interaction; phytosterols as important components of adaptive syndromes in herbivorous insects; methods utilized by plant-eating insects to detect... Read more

1. Seed Predators as Mutualists: Ecology and Evolution of the Fig/Pollinator Interaction

Judith L. Bronstein

2. Plant Sterols and Hostplant Affiliations of Herbivores

Elizabeth A. Bernays

3. Sensory Coding of Feeding Deterrents in Phytophagous Insects

Louis M. Schoonhoven, Walter M. Blaney, and Monique S.J. Simmonds

4. Extrafloral Nectary-Mediated Interactions between Insects and Plants

Suzanne Koptur

5. The Role of Quinolizidine Alkaloids in Plant Insect Interactions

Michael Wink

6. The Impact of Plant Stress on Herbivore Population Dynamics

Gwendolyn L. Waring and Neil S. Cobb

Biography

Dr. Elizabeth Bernays is a biologist turned writer. After growing up in Australia, she received her Ph.D. at the University of London, England, and had a career as an academic entomologist (most recently as a professor in UC Berkeley and then University of Arizona) before obtaining an MFA at the University of Arizona where she is currently a Regents' Professor Emerita. Bernays has published over two hundred scientific papers and books and several popular biology articles, as well as children's books. She has published poems and essays in a variety of literary journals.