Coevolution of Animals and Plants

Symposium V, First International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, 1973

Lawrence E. Gilbert, Peter H. Raven (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

260 Seiten

1975
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-0-292-71056-6 (ISBN)

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It has long been recognized that plants and animals profoundly affect one another’s characteristics during the course of evolution. However, the importance of coevolution as a dynamic process involving such diverse factors as chemical communication, population structure and dynamics, energetics, and the evolution, structure, and functioning of ecosystems has been widely recognized for a comparatively short time. Coevolution represents a point of view about the structure of nature that only began to be fully explored in the late twentieth century. The papers presented here herald its emergence as an important and promising field of biological research.

Coevolution of Animals and Plants is the first book to focus on the dynamic aspects of animal-plant coevolution. It covers, as broadly as possible, all the ways in which plants interact with animals. Thus, it includes discussions of leaf-feeding animals and their impact on plant evolution as well as of predator-prey relationships involving the seeds of angiosperms. Several papers deal with the most familiar aspect of mutualistic plant-animal interactions-pollination relationships. The interactions of orchids and bees, ants and plants, and butterflies and plants are discussed. One article provides a fascinating example of more indirect relationships centered around the role of carotenoids, which are produced by plants but play a fundamental part in the visual systems of both plants and animals.

Coevolution of Animals and Plants provides a general conceptual framework for studies on animal-plant interaction. The papers are written from a theoretical, rather than a speculative, standpoint, stressing patterns that can be applied in a broader sense to relationships within ecosystems.

Contributors to the volume include Paul Feeny, Miriam Rothschild, Christopher Smith, Brian Hocking, Lawrence Gilbert, Calaway Dodson, Herbert Baker, Bernd Heinrich, Doyle McKey, and Gordon Frankie.

Lawrence E. Gilbert is Professor of Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. Peter H. Raven is President Emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis.

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

Verlagsort	Austin, TX
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
ISBN-10	0-292-71056-9 / 0292710569
ISBN-13	978-0-292-71056-6 / 9780292710566
Zustand	Neuware