Description
Book SynopsisThe first book to focus on the dynamic aspects of animal-plant coevolution, covering as broadly as possible all the ways in which plants interact with animals.
Table of Contents
- General Introduction
- Biochemical coevolution between plants and their insect herbivores (Paul Feeny)
- Remarks on carotenoids in the evolution of signals (Miriam Rothschild)
- The coevolution of plants and seed predators (Christopher C. Smith)
- Ant-plant mutualism: evolution and energy (Brian Hocking)
- Coevolution of orchids and bees (Calaway H. Dodson)
- Studies of nectar-constitution and pollinator-plant coevolution (Herbert G. Baker and Irene Baker)
- The role of energetics in bumblebee-flower interrelationships (Bernd Heinrich)
- The ecology of coevolved seed dispersal systems (Doyle McKey)
- Tropical forest phenology and pollinator plant coevolution (Gordon W. Frankie)
- Ecological consequences of a coevolved mutualism between butterflies and plants (Lawrence E. Gilbert)
- Author Index
