: Zvy Dubinsky, Joseph Seckbach
: Joseph Seckbach, Zvy Dubinsky
: All Flesh Is Grass Plant-Animal Interrelationships
: Springer-Verlag
: 9789048193165
: 1
: CHF 190.80
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: "Landwirtschaft, Gartenbau; Forstwirtschaft, Fischerei, Ernährung"
: English
: 532
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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.
Table of Contents6
Introduction To AL FLESH IS GRAS:PLANT–ANIMAL INTERACTIONS8
LIST OF AUTHORS AND THEIR ADDRESES12
Part 1:EVOLUTION of Plant animal relationship17
EVOLUTION OF PLANT–ANIMAL INTERACTIONS23
Part 2:INSECTS INTERACTIONS49
INTESTINAL SPIROCHETES OF TERMITES77
THE PLANT–APHID UNIVERSE101
INSECT–PLANT INTERACTIONS: THE GALL FACTOR128
THE LEAF-CUTTING ANT–PLANT INTERACTION FROM A MICROBIAL ECOLOGY PERSPECTIVE51
Part 3:POLLINATION AND SEED DISPERSAL154
ANTS AS POLLINATORS OF PLANTS AND THE ROLE OF FLORAL SCENTS156
CROP POLLINATION IN MODERN AGRICULTURE168
BEE COGNITION AND CROP POLLINATION: PROVEN AND POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS186
ZOOCHORY: THE DISPERSAL OF PLANTS BY ANIMALS201
Part 4:ANIMALS AND HUMANS INVOLVEMENT215
GRAZING LIVESTOCK, OUR CONNECTION TO GRASS: A MEDITERRANEAN INSIGHT218
HERBIVORE–PLANT INTERACTIONS AND DESERTIFICATION IN ARID LANDS237
MICROSCOPIC IN SIZE: MACROSCOPIC IN IMPACT. DIATOM–HUMAN INTERACTIONS256
Part 5:PLANT DEFENSES281
BIOCHEMICAL PLANT DEFENSES AGAINST HERBIVORES283
THE XANTHIUM GENUS306
Part 6:MARINE ENVIRONMENTS313
THE DIVERSITY OF EPIZOIC DIATOMS317
EPIZOIC DIATOMS ON GASTROPOD SHELLS337
MANAGING THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN PLANTS AND ANIMALS IN MARINE MULTI-TROPHIC AQUACULTURE354
MARINE MICROALGAE/CYANOBACTERIA–INVERTEBRATE SYMBIOSIS370
THE ROLE OF RHODOLITH BEDS IN THE RECRUITMENT OF INVERTEBRATE SPECIES FROM THE SOUTHWESTERN GULF OF CALIFORNIA, MEXICO401
FUELED BY SYMBIOSIS, FORAMINIFERA HAVE EVOLVED TO BE GIANT COMPLEX PROTISTS412
Part 7:CAR NIVOROUS PLANTS436
ECOPHYSIOLOGICAL LOOK AT PLANT CARNIVORY438
REVERSING THE ROLES OF PREDATOR AND PREY472
ORGANISM Index498
SUBJECT Index502
Author Index509