Defensive (anti-herbivory) Coloration in Land Plants.
| Author/creator | Lev-Yadun, Simcha |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2016. |
| Description | 1 online resource (373 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Part I: General Background; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Plants Are Not Sitting Ducks Waiting for Herbivores to Eat Them; Chapter 3: The Many Defensive Mechanisms of Plants; Chapter 4: No Defense Is Perfect and Defense Is Always Relative; Chapter 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 Mimicry. |
| Contents | Chapter 6: Evaluating Risk: The Problematic and Even Erroneous Common View of "No Damage or No Attack Equals No Risk"Chapter 7: Partial Descriptions of Color Patterns in Floras and Handbooks Has Consequences on the Study of Plant Coloration Biology; Chapter 8: Animal Color Vision; The UV Spectrum and Defense from Herbivores; Chapter 9: The Nature of Signals; Chapter 10: White as a Visual Signal; Chapter 11: Visual Signaling by Plants to Animals via Color; Chapter 12: Müllerian and Batesian Mimics Are Extended Phenotypes; Part II: Gentle Defenses; Chapter 13: Camouflage. |
| Contents | Chapter 14: Seed Camouflage Bimodal Color Pattern€- A€New Pine Seed Camouflage Strategy; Chapter 15: Pod and Seed Camouflage in the Genus Pisum; Chapter 16: Defensive Functions of White Coloration in Coastal and Dune Plants; Camouflage by Sand Particles Attached to€Sticky Glandular Trichomes and Light-Colored Trichomes; Dust as a Strong Insect Repellent; Sand May Wear Down the Teeth of Large Herbivores; Chapter 17: Gloger's Rule in€Plants: The€Species and Ecosystem Levels; Chapter 18: Defensive Masquerade by Plants; Classic Non-Plant-Mimicking Defensive Visual Masquerade. |
| Contents | Chemical Non-Plant-Mimicking Masquerade Plant-Mimicking by Other Plants as Defensive Visual Masquerade; Chapter 19: Potential Defense From Herbivory by Dazzle Effects and Trickery Coloration of Variegated Leaves; Dazzle Coloration in Animals; Actual and Relative Plant Movement and Its Possible Role in Dazzle Effects; Potential Defense by Dazzle Effects and€Other Tricky Types of Leaf Variegation and Coloration; Chapter 20: Plants Undermine Herbirorous Insect Camouflage; Chapter 21: Delayed Greening; Chapter 22: Red/Purple Leaf Margin Coloration: Potential Defensive Functions. |
| Contents | Part III: Aggressive Defenses; Chapter 23: Aposematism; Distance of Action of Aposematic Coloration (Crypsis Versus Aposematism); Chapter 24: Olfactory Aposematism; Chapter 25: The Anecdotal History of Discussing Plant Aposematic Coloration; Chapter 26: Aposematic Coloration in Thorny, Spiny and Prickly Plants; Chapter 27: Fearful Symmetry in Aposematic Spiny Plants; Chapter 28: Color Changes in Old Aposematic Thorns, Spines, and Prickles; Chapter 29: Pathogenic Bacteria and Fungi on Thorns, Spines and Prickles. |
| Abstract | 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 the final word in anything, but rather the beginning of many things. It aims to establish visual anti-herbivory defense as an integral organ of botany, or plant science as it is commonly called today. I think that like in animals, many types of plant coloration can be explained by selection associated with the sensory/cognitive systems of herbivores and predators to reduce herbivory. It is intended to intrigue and stimulate students of botany/plant science and plant/animal interactions for a very long time. This book is tailored to a readership of biologists and naturalists of all kinds and levels, and more specifically for botanists, ecologists, evolutionists and to those interested in plant/animal interactions. It is written from the point of view of a naturalist, ecologist and evolutionary biologist that I hold, considering natural selection as the main although not the only drive for evolution. According to this perspective, factors such as chance, founder effects, genetic drift and various stochastic processes that may and do influence characters found in specific genotypes, are not comparable in their power and influence to the common outcomes of natural selection, especially manifested when very many species belonging to different plant families, with very different and separate evolutionary histories, arrive at the same adaptation, something that characterizes many of the visual patterns and proposed adaptations described and discussed in this book. Many of the discussed visual defensive mechanisms are aimed at operating before the plants are damaged, i.e., to be their first line of defense. In this respect, I think that the name of the book by Ruxton et al. (2004) "Avoiding Attack" is an excellent phrase for the assembly of the best types of defensive tactics. While discussing anti-herbivory, I do remember, study and teach physiological/developmental aspects of some of the discussed coloration patterns, and I am fully aware of the simultaneous and diverse functions of many plant characters in addition to defense. |
| General note | Chapter 30: Aposematism in Plants with Silica Needles and Raphids Made of Calcium Oxalate. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Lev-Yadun, Simcha. Defensive (anti-herbivory) Coloration in Land Plants. Cham : Springer International Publishing, ©2016 9783319420943 |
| ISBN | 9783319420967 |
| ISBN | 3319420968 |
| ISBN | 9783319420943 |
| ISBN | 3319420941 |
| Standard identifier# | 10.1007/978-3-319-42096-7 |
| Standard identifier# | 10.1007/978-3-319-42 |
| Stock number | 965205 MIL |
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