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Book Synopsis Evolutionary ecology of Amazonian ant-myrmecophyte mutualisms by : Carlos Roberto Sörensen Dutra da Fonseca
Download or read book Evolutionary ecology of Amazonian ant-myrmecophyte mutualisms written by Carlos Roberto Sörensen Dutra da Fonseca and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Evolution and Ecology of Fungal Symbionts in Ant-associated Mutualisms by : Kirsten Gotting
Download or read book The Evolution and Ecology of Fungal Symbionts in Ant-associated Mutualisms written by Kirsten Gotting and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fungi define and shape a multitude of organismal evolutionary trajectories. These fungi play a variety of roles in symbiosis and can have a multitude of ecologies ranging from parasites to mutualists. Many insects associate with fungi. Some insects eat fungi, and some fungi eat insects. The fungus-growing ant-microbe symbiosis is one example where fungal symbionts take on different roles. Fungus-growing ants are engaged in an obligate mutualism with fungi in the genus Leucoagaricus. The ants bring diverse substrates to their constructed fungal homes called 'fungus gardens' which digest these substrates. Additionally, these fungus gardens house a diverse array of bacteria, some of which have various roles in the fungus garden such as nitrogen fixation. Another symbiont is the parasite Escovopsis, which infects nearly all fungus-growing ant colonies, and can potentially completely disrupt the colony. In response to this parasite, fungus-growing ants use weeding and grooming behaviors, as well as prophylactic application of antibiotics to prevent the growth of this parasite. In this dissertation, I used a variety of computational frameworks to explore the relationships of fungi amongst mutualism, one being the fungus-growing ant microbe symbiosis. My main goal is to assess both the evolution and ecology of different fungal symbionts in the context of mutualisms.
Download or read book Sociobiology written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mutualism written by Judith L. Bronstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first synthetic, conceptual overview of mutualism in more than 25 years, edited by the leading figure in the field, identifying the ecological and evolutionary features that unite and divide mutualisms and placing them in clear relation to other pairwise, interspecific interactions.
Book Synopsis Successful Candidates for the Degrees of D. Phil., M. Litt., M. Sc., and Diploma in Law with Titles of Their Theses by : University of Oxford
Download or read book Successful Candidates for the Degrees of D. Phil., M. Litt., M. Sc., and Diploma in Law with Titles of Their Theses written by University of Oxford and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ant-Plant Interactions by : Paulo S. Oliveira
Download or read book Ant-Plant Interactions written by Paulo S. Oliveira and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ants are probably the most dominant insect family on earth, and flowering plants have been the dominant plant group on land for more than 100 million years. In recent decades, human activities have degraded natural environments with unparalleled speed and scale, making it increasingly apparent that interspecific interactions vary not only under different ecological conditions and across habitats, but also according to anthropogenic global change. This is the first volume entirely devoted to the anthropogenic effects on the interactions between these two major components of terrestrial ecosystems. A first-rate team of contributors report their research from a variety of temperate and tropical ecosystems worldwide, including South, Central and North America, Africa, Japan, Polynesia, Indonesia and Australia. It provides an in-depth summary of the current understanding for researchers already acquainted with insect-plant interactions, yet is written at a level to offer a window into the ecology of ant-plant interactions for the mostly uninitiated international scientific community.
Book Synopsis Biotic Interactions in the Tropics by : David Burslem
Download or read book Biotic Interactions in the Tropics written by David Burslem and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-08 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand how tropical ecosystems work we need to appreciate how the organisms within them interact with each other. This volume, first published in 2005, synthesises the state of knowledge in this area, providing reviews or case studies from both Old and New World tropics and dealing with taxa at all trophic levels.
Download or read book The American Naturalist written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Intertwined Population Biology of Symbiotic Ants and Plants in the Amazon by : Frederickson Megan Elizabeth
Download or read book The Intertwined Population Biology of Symbiotic Ants and Plants in the Amazon written by Frederickson Megan Elizabeth and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tropical Forest Community Ecology by : Walter Carson
Download or read book Tropical Forest Community Ecology written by Walter Carson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, tropical ecology has been a science often content with descriptive and demographic approaches, which is understandable given the difficulty of studying these ecosystems and the need for basic demographic information. Nonetheless, over the last several years, tropical ecologists have begun to test more sophisticated ecological theory and are now beginning to address a broad array of questions that are of particular importance to tropical systems, and ecology in general. Why are there are so many species in tropical forests and what mechanisms are responsible for the maintenance of that vast species diversity? What factors control species coexistence? Are there common patterns of species abundance and distribution across broad geographic scales? What is the role of trophic interactions in these complex ecosystems? How can these fragile ecosystems be conserved? Containing contributions from some of the world’s leading tropical ecologists, Tropical Forest Community Ecology provides a summary of the key issues in the discipline of tropical ecology: Includes contributions from some of the world’s leading tropical ecologists Covers patterns of species distribution, the maintenance of species diversity, the community ecology of tropical animals, forest regeneration and conservation of tropical ecosystems
Download or read book Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Evolution, Systematics and Ecology of the Myrmecophytic Genus Tococa (Melastomataceae) by : Fabián Armando Michelangeli
Download or read book Evolution, Systematics and Ecology of the Myrmecophytic Genus Tococa (Melastomataceae) written by Fabián Armando Michelangeli and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ecological Networks in the Tropics by : Wesley Dáttilo
Download or read book Ecological Networks in the Tropics written by Wesley Dáttilo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on graph theory studies this book seeks to understand how tropical species interact with each other and how these interactions are affected by perturbations in some of the most species-rich habitats on earth. Due to the great diversity of species and interactions in the tropics, this book addresses a wide range of current and future issues with empirical examples and complete revisions on different types of ecological networks: from mutualisms to antagonisms. The goal of this publication is not to be only for researchers but also for undergraduates in different areas of knowledge, and also to serve as a reference text for graduate-level courses mainly in the life sciences.
Book Synopsis The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects by : Ted R Schultz
Download or read book The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects written by Ted R Schultz and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors explore common elements in the evolutionary histories of both human and insect agriculture resulting from convergent evolution. During the past 12,000 years, agriculture originated in humans as many as twenty-three times, and during the past 65 million years, agriculture also originated in nonhuman animals at least twenty times and in insects at least fifteen times. It is much more likely that these independent origins represent similar solutions to the challenge of growing food than that they are due purely to chance. This volume seeks to identify common elements in the evolutionary histories of both human and insect agriculture that are the results of convergent evolution. The goal is to create a new, synthetic field that characterizes, quantifies, and empirically documents the evolutionary and ecological mechanisms that drive both human and nonhuman agriculture. The contributors report on the results of quantitative analyses comparing human and nonhuman agriculture; discuss evolutionary conflicts of interest between and among farmers and cultivars and how they interfere with efficiencies of agricultural symbiosis; describe in detail agriculture in termites, ambrosia beetles, and ants; and consider patterns of evolutionary convergence in different aspects of agriculture, comparing fungal parasites of ant agriculture with fungal parasites of human agriculture, analyzing the effects of agriculture on human anatomy, and tracing the similarities and differences between the evolution of agriculture in humans and in a single, relatively well-studied insect group, fungus-farming ants.
Book Synopsis Plant Communication from an Ecological Perspective by : František Baluška
Download or read book Plant Communication from an Ecological Perspective written by František Baluška and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the concept of allelopathy was introduced almost 100 years ago, research has led to an understanding that plants are involved in complex communicative interactions. They use a battery of different signals that convey plant-relevant information within plant individuals as well as between plants of the same species or different species. The 13 chapters of this volume discuss all these topics from an ecological perspective. Communication between plants allows them to share physiological and ecological information relevant for their survival and ?tness. It is obvious that in these very early days of ecological plant communication research we are illuminating only the ‘tip of iceberg’ of the communicative nature of higher plants. Nevertheless, knowledge on the identity and informative value of volatiles used by plants for communication is increasing with breath-taking speed. Among the most spectacular examples are sit- tions where plant emitters warn neighbours about a danger, increasing their innate immunity, or when herbivore-attacked plants attract the enemies of the herbivores (‘cry for help’ and ‘plant bodyguards’ concepts). It is becoming obvious that plants use not only volatile signals but also diverse water soluble molecules, in the case of plant roots, to safeguard their evolutionary success and accomplish self/non-self kin rec- nition. Importantly, as with all the examples of biocommunication, irrespective of whether signals and signs are transmitted via physical or chemical pathways, plant communication is a rule-governed and sign-mediated process.
Book Synopsis The Intertwined Population Biology of Symbiotic Ants and Plants in the Amazon by : Frederickson Megan Elizabeth
Download or read book The Intertwined Population Biology of Symbiotic Ants and Plants in the Amazon written by Frederickson Megan Elizabeth and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Biodiversity written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 5485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 7-volume Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Second Edition maintains the reputation of the highly regarded original, presenting the most current information available in this globally crucial area of research and study. It brings together the dimensions of biodiversity and examines both the services it provides and the measures to protect it. Major themes of the work include the evolution of biodiversity, systems for classifying and defining biodiversity, ecological patterns and theories of biodiversity, and an assessment of contemporary patterns and trends in biodiversity. The science of biodiversity has become the science of our future. It is an interdisciplinary field spanning areas of both physical and life sciences. Our awareness of the loss of biodiversity has brought a long overdue appreciation of the magnitude of this loss and a determination to develop the tools to protect our future. Second edition includes over 100 new articles and 226 updated articles covering this multidisciplinary field— from evolution to habits to economics, in 7 volumes The editors of this edition are all well respected, instantly recognizable academics operating at the top of their respective fields in biodiversity research; readers can be assured that they are reading material that has been meticulously checked and reviewed by experts Approximately 1,800 figures and 350 tables complement the text, and more than 3,000 glossary entries explain key terms
